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Companies are understandably looking to the cloud as a means of ensuring access to critical information and resources wherever staff are working , including printing processes .
Germán Daza , Marketing Product Manager for Latin America Solutions and Software at Lexmark
Making printing part of Digital Transformation
Germán Daza , Marketing Product Manager for Latin America Solutions and Software at Lexmark , discusses the future of printing operations in business environments .
It ’ s not a surprise to anyone that , in the last year , the adoption of new technologies evolved so rapidly that advances were made that were only expected to happen in the next five years .
Thanks to the pandemic , companies were forced to adopt tools that would allow them to continue their operations remotely . Consequently , printing and imaging service providers had to transform .
Research from PwC suggests that cloud spending increased by 37 % in Q1 2020 to allow staff to work remotely or flexibly and that companies are understandably looking to the cloud as a means of ensuring access to critical information and resources wherever staff are working , including printing processes .
Of course , each industry and even each company undergoes its transformation based on specific needs and objectives , but they all have something in common : printing . Even when print volumes appear to be decreasing , critical activities still require this process .
According to an IDC study , half of the back-office workflow processes still have significant printing requirements ( labelling , guides , contracts , financial reports , among others ). At the same time , the digitization of content and the migration from
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