As the Workplace Evolves, How Will Printers and MFPs Stay Relevant?
As companies adapt to the challenges of work-from-home and mobile environments, printing trends are changing – from an increased investment in cloud services to a growing need for secure scanning and software solutions.
In addition to playing an essential role in daily business functions, including printing, scanning, and faxing, the print industry has had to adapt to the growing demand for mobile resources, cloud services and emerging technologies. With over a trillion pages being printed across the country every year, it’s essential that companies stay aware of printing trends that can impact their business.
But which printing trends will best benefit YOUR business?
Download the IDC Vendor Spotlight to learn:
- How to determine which tools you really need
- What evolving printing trends mean for businesses
- Which printer and MFP options will keep you ahead of the curve
- Advanced security, reliability, and productivity-enhancing features that are making an impact
- How Brother can help you make the most of new technology
Total Cost of Ownership for Printers, Scanners & Multifunction Solutions in the K-12 Learning Environment
Most K-12 technology leaders and administrators will tell you that their technology needs are growing...and their budget is either falling flat or growing smaller.
This tip sheet from Brother can give you some quick steps to consider and resources to tap into if you determine the need for an assessment to help control costs when planning for future purchases and system-wide upgrades.
6 Trends to Consider When Choosing Imaging Devices
Brother can help meet the changing needs of businesses with a range of Brother Workhorse printers, MFPs and scanners, as well as custom workflow solutions.
In this infographic checklist with Brother, learn about the top 6 trends that affect imaging device purchasing, and the key takeaways to meet your changing business needs.
Total Cost of Ownership for Printers, Scanners & Multifunction Solutions in the K-12 Learning Environment
Most K-12 technology leaders and administrators will tell you that their technology needs are growing...and their budget is either falling flat or growing smaller.
This tip sheet from Brother can give you some quick steps to consider and resources to tap into if you determine the need for an assessment to help control costs when planning for future purchases and system-wide upgrades.
As the Workplace Evolves, How Will Printers and MFPs Stay Relevant?
Printers and MFPs have long been part of the IT infrastructure for a business' computing environment. As the IT market has evolved toward 3rd Platform and other emerging technologies, the role of print transitions as well. Within this shift, business buyers will need to ponder these developments in tandem with the print buying decision.
This paper examines how the needs of a changing workplace can be satisfied with the latest editions of business-to-business (B2B) printers and multifunction printers (MFPs).
Brother is ‘At Your Side’ to Support You Through Change
The world is changing, and as a result, there will be an impact on the way we live and work.
In this infographic with Brother, learn about detailed solutions like stricter rules and regulations, decentralized approaches, and more about the benefits of printer pods and desktop printers.
Thinking Beyond Product Specs: What should your business be looking for in document imaging equipment?
As emerging technologies and the COVID-19 health pandemic are shifting employee expectations for the workplace, now is the time for businesses to consider updating their print environment.
A recent IDC Vendor Spotlight (May 2020), “As the Workplace Evolves, How Will Printers and MFPs Stay Relevant?”, sponsored by Brother, highlights market and industry trends and discusses how the print environment must evolve to meet them. In this checklist infographic, learn six trends that businesses should factor into their buying decisions when considering document and imaging equipment.
Enterprise Mobile Apps are the Requirement. Do you know the Solution?
Enterprise mobile applications are currently one of the things keeping CIOs up at night. They know that the right apps can engage customers and make employees more productive by enabling everyone to work and interact the way they prefer. However, they are only too aware of the risk of wasting time and effort by producing apps that never get used because they don’t “feel” right to users. Or even worse, failing to deliver a mobile app that the business expects.
This paper aims to help readers understand the issues surrounding enterprise mobile applications and suggest solutions so that they can reap the benefits and avoid the pitfalls. We outline our viewpoint on the challenges and make recommendations to help organizations that are contemplating, or already involved with, mobile development.
Unfettered Mobility: Driving the International Extended Enterprise
Organisations are increasingly international in both their outlook and their operations. Despite these developments, international workers continue to be impeded by their organisations' approaches to mobility.
IDC research highlights that when working internationally, employees make a distinct change in their communication preferences, becoming less available and less collaborative. This impacts both productivity and job satisfaction.
This whitepaper outlines the learnings that can be implemented in mobile policies by senior decision makers who are responsible for managing telecommunications across the globe.
Evaluator Group: Investing Strategically in All Flash Arrays
For customers looking to implement flash for primary data center storge, NetApp's All Flash FAS systems offer some significant advantages over competiitve offerings. Customer can deploy All Flash FAS arrays for specific applications now and later extend them to private and hybrid cloud-based applications as enterprise IT's longer term strategy dictates. Read this technology insight paper on investing strategically in all flash arrays.
Speed, Scale, Security: Orchestrating a Great Download Experience
Delivering software is becoming harder every day. Not only do you have to compete in a universe of 15 billion connected devices, but also with a growing number of users downloading everything from new applications to virus updates.
The result is a growing congestion that can undermine your ability to get your application, software patch, or device update to your end users as quickly as possible. And every minute that your users spend trying to download your software is a minute they can’t spend using it.
What it ultimately comes down to is latency.
Limelight Orchestrate for Media & Broadcast
Every broadcaster and media content owner struggles with how to simplify and reduce costs of media publishing workflow. Instantaneously delivering high quality video worldwide to every screen has led to needlessly complex systems. Too often, multiple third party tools are required to encode, publish, and deliver high performing content, as well as integrate ads, gather analytics,
and ensure content security—all of which can impact how quickly you can deliver high quality content to your viewers, who expect a seamless experience on every screen.
Software Download: The Challenge for Game Developers
Digital distribution is the fastest growing method to sell games, upgrade and fix game software, and push out new enhancements to existing games. For example, Steam, one of the largest game distribution sites in the world, distributes over 3000 games to more than 100 million active users while supporting 5-8 million players simultaneously. The percentage of video gamers choosing digital distribution over DVDs grew from 40% in 2012 to over 50% in 2013, according to the Entertainment Software Association, and this number will keep climbing.
Nintendo’s Limelight Solution
Families and children around the world love Nintendo. They are fans of the state-of-the-art game consoles such as the new Wii U and they enjoy the variety of exciting game classics from Mario Bros. to Princess Zelda. And, thanks to the educational value of the content, Nintendo captures the hearts of audiences both young and old.
So what is Nintendo’s secret sauce? They understand what it means to create meaningful connections with fans by managing their digital content across devices and by leveraging the power of video. Nintendo provides authentic and homogenous high performance gaming and entertainment experiences to fans on their game consoles and on their branded websites.
Stream On: Case Study
StreamOn is one of Canada’s oldest and most established streaming companies. The company began in 2002 as the result of a need to develop a plug and play, seamless streaming solution
for the OK Radio Group’s 10-radio stations. StreamOn currently serves a growing customer base of over 300 radio stations in North, Central and South America, along with the Caribbean, Africa,
and the South Pacific.