ROCHESTER, N.Y., Apr 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- WellPoint, one of the nation’s largest healthbenefits companies, has partnered with Xerox to adopt greener business practicesand save more than $3 million annually using managed print services (MPS)to better manage the way documents are printed, shared and updated acrossWellPoint’s 90 office locations.
Xerox and WellPoint designed the Green Office Initiative,a sustainable document strategy that helps WellPoint better monitor howmuch printing is being done, and provide employees with more environmentallysensitive ways to work with documents. By deploying MPS, WellPoint eliminated9,000 devices -- printers, copiers and fax machines -- in favor of moreefficient multifunction devices. As a result, paper expenses are down morethan $280,000 from last year and WellPoint estimates a 60 percent reductionin print-related energy use and total greenhouse gases.
“WellPoint’s Green Office Initiative has four over-archinggoals: reduce waste, enhance recycling efforts, minimize creation of greenhousegases and create an energy-efficient work environment,” said Andrew J.Lang, CIO and senior vice president, WellPoint. “Thanks to our partnershipwith Xerox, we are making significant strides toward reaching these goals.”
To successfully reach sustainability and savings goals,Xerox and WellPoint implemented an education campaign to help employeesunderstand the new print and document features -- and the importance ofusing them. WellPoint gathers feedback from employees and conducts customersurveys to continuously improve the program.
The Green Office Initiative builds on Xerox’s existingrelationship with WellPoint for healthcare communication services, whichhelps simplify and personalize communications with the approximately 34million members of WellPoint’s affiliated health plans. In addition tomanaging printing, mailroom, member fulfillment services and outbound memberand provider communications, Xerox plans to add e-delivery services tohelp WellPoint shift to a platform that replaces paper with secure e-documents.To generate communications that members are more likely to respond to,associates can use the new platform to add personal, relevant data aboutmembers’ life stages, needs and preferences.
As the worldwide market leader in MPS, Xerox is workingwith businesses of all sizes to simplify the way work gets done -- so employeesspend less time managing documents, and more time focused on their corebusiness. Xerox integrates MPS into the IT infrastructure to help intelligentlyorganize information from both paper and electronic sources. The companywas named the worldwide market share leader(1) and positioned by Gartner,Inc., in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed PrintServices Worldwide(2) and recognized as a leader in IDC’s Managed PrintServices and Basic Print Services 2012-2015 Forecast and Analysis report(3)and 2011 MPS MarketScape report(4). Additionally, Xerox earned the topposition in Quocirca’s 2012 MPS report.
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