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Quocirca MPS Landscape Report, 2017
Managed print services (MPS) remains a proven approach that enables businesses to acquire the skills and expertise they require to address the cost, complexity and risk of an unmanaged print infrastructure. While many MPS providers are repositioning MPS in the wider...
Public Sector: Sustainability in Action
Education and the wider public sector typically share a common ‘serving the citizen’, rather than customer oriented, approach. This generally leads to progressive attitudes towards the environment, often bolstered by government legislation and directives, with regards...
Kodak Alaris expands information capture portfolio to drive digital transformation
Digital transformation is high on the agenda for many businesses that are looking to tackle the exponential increase in information – both paper and digital. Intelligent information capture is a key starting point for digital transformation, with leading vendors...
GDPR: Why print is a crucial element of endpoint security
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect on 25th May 2018, could prove to be a catalyst to change the existing haphazard approach to print security. Networked printers and multifunction printers (MFPs) are often overlooked when it comes to...
Xerox banks on ConnectKey technology to drive success in SMB market
Xerox has broadened its SMB portfolio to capture a larger share of the A4 MFP market, which is estimated as a $12 billion opportunity growing at 3% annually. It has launched a range of 29 AltaLink and VersaLink devices, targeted at distributed and centralised...
HP continues to advance print security credentials
Amidst a rapidly evolving threat landscape, where malware and exploits continue to proliferate, endpoint security often fails to adequately protect networked printer and multifunction printer (MFP) devices. Through the recent launch of its HP Studios web series called...
Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub: ambitions to push future workplace boundaries
Konica Minolta unveiled its Workplace Hub to much fanfare at its “Future of Work” event in Berlin on 23 March. An intelligent IT platform, Konica Minolta believes Workplace Hub will revolutionise IT management describing it as “the world’s most connected intelligent...
Bridging the paper and digital gap: why MPS providers are driving digital strategies
Organisations that are ahead of their peers in the digitisation journey are outperforming them in profitability, customer loyalty and employee engagement, according to Quocirca’s Digital Maturity Index. A digital transformation strategy that is geared towards...
5 key steps to sustainability for SMEs
Just how committed are European SMEs to eco-sustainability in the workplace? What challenges and barriers do SMEs face when implementing the necessary changes and introducing more cost efficient eco-technology? The fact is only 42% of SMEs are addressing workplace...
8 steps for implementing a successful print security plan
Amidst the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints, the cybersecurity threat landscape has expanded to every mobile, smart and cloud-enabled device on the network. This threatens the resilience of organisations not only from the disruption of business...
Print Security in the IoT Era
The far-reaching financial, legal and reputational implications of a data loss mean that information security is a business imperative. Safeguarding the ever-increasing volumes of valuable corporate data against unauthorised access has become integral to maintaining...
Channels to MPS in Europe, 2017
Changes in the way customers buy technology are pressurising existing channel and partner organisations’ processes and capabilities. As they increasingly target the SMB market, vendors are rethinking the ways they allocate resources to scale their channel operations....
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Will Buy with AWS help you sell?
Almost 70% of organisations have used an online marketplace to purchase office or home print devices in the past year, but many suppliers find joining online marketplaces daunting and costly. AWS is launching 'Buy with AWS', a new way for vendors to offer B2B goods with one click.
