Apogee is now billing itself as a managed services provider as its CEO Aurelio Maruggi claims that the firm is rapidly expanding its managed IT service and outsourced document services business.
Demand for managed print services has fallen sharply during the Covid pandemic, with managed print resellers previously telling CRN that they expect to lose between 20 to 30 per cent of their print volumes from mid-sized and corporate customers post-Covid.
The estimations came after IDC predicted that four hundred billion fewer pages would be printed in 2020 than previous years - the equivalent of seven football fields-worth of paged every minute.
Maruggi told CRN that, while there's a lot of speculation about how badly the print sector will be hit in the aftermath of the pandemic, Apogee is working with the assumption that it will lose around 15 to 20 per cent of normal print levels post-Covid.
The Apogee CEO, who has been with the HP business for almost 20 years, said that the reduction comes as clients look to reduce their office footprints and move to a hybrid working model. read more here