The high-tech tangle of old and new imaging and printing technology found in most organizations today is more complex and costly than ever before. Yet it is not uncommon for the responsibility to acquire, deploy, support and supply these devices to be split among IT, Facilities and Procurement. Further complicating this issue is the fact that the cost of imaging and printing today encompasses much more than the cost to purchase printers and related devices. InfoTrends/ALL Associates Group has found that, “for every $1 spent on equipment, supplies, and service, another $9 is spent on other burdened costs. These burdened costs include IT support and infrastructure, procurement and facility costs, end-user interaction time, and document management expense.” With no one functional area ensuring the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the printing and imaging environment or its associated business processes, is it any wonder that problems and opportunities are often overlooked?
Thanks to converging technological and computing advances, the options for how documents are created, distributed, stored and utilized have multiplied exponentially. As the world’s leading provider of imaging and printing products and services, HP has developed a framework that enables IT, Facilities and Procurement to work together to capitalize on these recent developments. This imaging and printing framework is comprised of three critical building blocks, which can be utilized individually or collectively to save money, improve productivity, and create competitive advantage. What follows is a quick overview of the opportunity and value each provides.
Building block: Optimize infrastructure
How it creates competitive advantage: Reduces the direct and indirect costs of enterprise imaging and printing by taking control and optimizing your imaging and printing devices and network infrastructure.
Opportunity at-a-glance:
HP experts can partner with you to:
» Assess and improve the cost and impact of your printing assets
» Consolidate the use and care of office and facility infrastructures
» Optimize enterprise imaging and printing assets to balance cost and productivity
Value of an optimized printing and imaging environment:
To IT – less complexity, easier to manage, improved end user functionality
To Facilities – reduction in devices means more available space
To Procurement – fewer vendors and contracts to manage
Building block: Manage environment
How it creates competitive advantage:
Enables IT staff and end users to work effectively by managing, securing and simplifying your end-to-end enterprise imaging and printing environment
Opportunity at-a-glance:
HP experts can partner with you to:
» Develop a strategy to leverage management services and solutions – balancing costs, productivity and IT
» Integrate and securely manage operations of enterprise imaging and printing fleets Benefits of an effectively managed printing and imaging environment
To IT – fewer help desk calls
To Facilities – more ROI per square foot
To Procurement – reduced maintenance costs
Building block: Improve workflow
How it creates competitive advantage: Accelerates business results by digitizing and streamlining document-intensive processes
Opportunity at-a-glance:
HP experts can partner with you to:
» Automate manual processing to streamline information flows on a departmental to global basis
» Improve compliance readiness while reducing the risk of error
Benefits of streamlined information flows
To IT – improved data protection, compliance
To Facilities – increases value of assets
To Procurement – ensures financial data is accurate and actionable
Why HP?
HP has been an industry leader in printing and imaging innovation and reliability for more than 20 years and has shipped more than 100 million LaserJet printers worldwide. Whether you need to buy one printer, consolidate your devices under a single, standardized contract or you want to improve and transform the way you manage your printing environment, HP has the expertise, experience and technology to deliver the right solution, right now. Looking for more accountability, agility and a better return on your printing and imaging investments?
HP Managed Print Services (MPS) can:
» Quantify the total costs of your existing imaging and printing infrastructure
» Help you identify savings opportunities and reconfigure your environment to take advantage of them
» Provide ongoing supplies, service and support designed to meet your companies unique business needs
» Monitor performance to maintain cost-effective operation over time
Your local HP representative can help you to explore a variety of cost-effective strategies for enhancing your imaging and printing environment today and into the future.
