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The Business Case for Managed Print Services and Variations Thereof: Solutions to the Corporate Junk Drawer

imageOver the past several years small organizations have compiled dozens, medium-sized organizations hundreds, and large organizations thousands of printers, copiers, multifunctional devices, faxes and scanners to produce documents. These same organizations have contracted with courier services to distribute documents and invested in software applications to help manage them. Many also outsource document production and even destruction.

As of 2006, Hewlett Packard has placed over 100 million laser printers in North America. Copier manufactures have installed over eight million copiers and multifunctional devices. Even with the surge of attaching documents to e-mail for distribution, faxing documents is still very popular. Two years ago FedEx bought Kinko’s. What does this marriage tell us about the connection between document production and distribution? They are a perfect match. At the time of this writing FedEx® stock is $116 per share reflecting a bullish outlook on corporate America’s appetite for outsourcing document production and distribution. continue reading...

Harnessing IT Infrastructure & Emerging Document Technology to Maximize ROI & Productivity

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Over the past few recessionary years, with corporate earnings down and budgets under attack, organizations have been expanding investigations into areas they can reduce costs and increase
personal and workgroup productivity. The mantra from the board room to divisions, departments, workgroups and people at workstations has been, “Do more with less.”

The obvious cost centers under scrutiny have included; labor and related health care costs, travel, technology spending, advertising, and expansion plans to name a few.

Also, over the past three to five years, organizations have invested millions of dollars in IT infrastructure, networks and intranets, internet strategy, bandwidth and security with the
outcome of delivering information throughout their enterprise of knowledge workers, customers and vendors. continue reading...