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The Amazon Effect: Can Amazon disrupt the print industry?
The print industry can learn from Amazon’s unparalleled focus on customer centricity and its leadership in technology markets beyond the online marketplace. Amazon's announcement, on 2nd February 2021, that its founder Jeff Bezos will pass the reins to AWS CEO Andy...
Quocirca Home Printing Trends, 2021
Quocirca's Home Printing Trends 2021 study reveals that home workers are embracing new ways of working, with the majority (87%) reporting that productivity is the same or has increased since working from home. Consequently, over half (52%) expect that their future...
Now or Never: Print industry predictions #5
To emerge stronger in 2021, print industry players must adopt a future forward mindset to address the rapidly evolving cloud and hybrid workplace era – or risk being left behind. The industry is at a crossroads where those who take the path to reinvention and take...
Now or Never: Print industry predictions #4
To emerge stronger in 2021, print industry players must adopt a future forward mindset to address the rapidly evolving cloud and hybrid workplace era – or risk being left behind. The industry is at a crossroads where those who take the path to reinvention and take...
Now or Never: Print industry predictions #3
To emerge stronger in 2021, print industry players must adopt a future forward mindset to address the rapidly evolving cloud and hybrid workplace era – or risk being left behind. The industry is at a crossroads where those who take the path to reinvention and take...
Now or Never: Opportunities for the Print Industry #2
To emerge stronger in 2021, print industry players must adopt a future forward mindset to address the rapidly evolving cloud and hybrid workplace era – or risk being left behind. The industry is at a crossroads where those who take the path to reinvention and take...
Now or Never: Print industry opportunities for 2021
To emerge stronger in 2021, print industry players must adopt a future forward mindset to address the rapidly evolving cloud and hybrid workplace era – or risk being left behind. The office print industry has been plunged into a perfect storm. COVID-19 has...
The Cloud Advantage: 5 Key Steps for MPS providers
Quocirca’s latest report, ‘The Cloud Advantage: The opportunity for MPS providers’, discusses how developing a cloud print services offering is imperative for MPS providers looking to build relevance in a rapidly evolving market. The Cloud Opportunity for MPS...
Is Zoom fatigue signalling a return to the printed page?
Digital overload from video collaboration The pandemic has created a surge of both personal and professional video conferencing. Zoom has seen use of its platform skyrocket as a result of the overnight shift to home working. According to CNBC, Zoom averaged 148.4...
Scaling print security for the remote workplace
For many, remote working is here to stay for the foreseeable future. However, claims of a resultant increase in employee productivity are off-set by the worry that endpoints - including printers - are secure from cyberattack. IT teams must scale print...
Quocirca Printing in the Hybrid Workplace Study
New research amongst UK and US IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) reveals a range of changes that are being made to support workers in the evolving hybrid workplace. Quocirca conducted a snapshot study amongst 303 ITDMs across the UK (103) and US (200) in July 2020....
Microsoft Universal Print Set to Boost Cloud Printing Momentum
On 21 July 2020, Microsoft announced the public preview of Universal Print, its Azure-powered cloud-based print solution. Universal Print moves key Windows Server print functionality to the Microsoft 365 cloud, meaning organisations no longer need on-premises print...