The Future of Documents

In the latest version of Gartner’s Managed Print Service Quadrant, Xerox is positioned in the leaders quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period.

This is a owing to the Xerox Office Services offering, which helps your organization gain control of processes and costs for document output. Xerox manages all of your office printing devices – such as printers, copiers, and fax machines – regardless of manufacturer or model. Productivity, cost savings, but also carbon footprint keep improving through the continuous improvements that your fleet is undergoing.

In other words, a key contributor to the Less Paper Office, which is supported by a mix of people, processes, and bleeding edge technologies, but also cool research like social networking for printers.

An interesting article in the New York Times on Xerox and the Paperless / “Less Paper” Office. 

Technologies mentioned include Extensible Interface Platform, or the direct access to workflows from the Multi-Function Device, Xerox Mortgage Services, Xerox Litigation Services. The only advanced research project mentioned is “Intelligent Redaction“, a PARC technology which controls access to sensitive information.

Also interesting is the mention that Xerox has joined the Information Overload Research Group, an organization in charge of “reducing information pollution” and lists things like feeds, voice mail, social networks, interruptions, blogs, Web 2.0 services and search engines as “polluters”.