Managing printing also crucial
As Ingle said, IDC’s research suggests that cost control is going to remain a major factor for most if not all businesses. Also they must be sustainable both financially and environmentally.
Bob Roth, vice president of strategic technology sourcing at Viacom, presented a snapshot of his company’s transition to managed print services. Viacom’s corporate copier contract was due to expire; at the same time, the company wanted to streamline its printing and copying environment, cut the overall cost of its operating output devices such as printers and print and copy in a greener way.
Viacom’s core team attended HP’s Print 2.0 workshop to learn about industry trends, efficient output management and MPS.
MPS can help organisations manage, consolidate, control and optimise their print infrastructure, with the solution incorporating technology, supplies, support and maintenance.
Roth said that management of Viacom’s print, copy, fax and scanning services had been unintegrated. All devices are now centrally coordinated, with increased functionality and 80 per cent of personal printers removed.
“We have gone from 2,500 mostly personal output devices to just 1,000 networked printers and multi-function devices, and from 100 models of device down to just 15.”
Emission reductions
Viacom claims to have used just 70 per cent of its former bill in energy and reduced its paper use 45.9 per cent in a year. This has saved both carbon and cash.
“There was a 62.7 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from power fleet and reduced paper use,” said Roth.
“Overall we reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 550 metric tonnes from kW/h energy and paper reductions over a one-year period, after fleet optimisation and HP MPS that is equivalent to annual greenhouse gas emissions from 101 passenger vehicles, using the US Environmental Protection Agency’s calculator.”
Ingle added: “Resellers must continue to prepare customers and organisations for uncertain times. The second opportunity is to pick up the focus on improvements in the IT that is heavily energy dependent.”
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