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Reduced Printing by Vertical Sector Caused by the Coronavirus

By looking at the various vertical industry sectors and their contribution to office printing, we have estimated the best- and worst-case effects on print volume due to coronavirus

Your Home Printer and Network Equipment Could Be Putting Corporate Data at Risk

The challenges of finding sufficient work space, blocking out the noise from TVs blaring, children playing, dogs barking, online meetings crashing due to the lack of home bandwidth, and other distractions are already becoming all too commonplace. However, there is another, invisible and silent challenge that employers should be very conscious of: data security.

bliQ Subscribers Speak Out

Keypoint Intelligence conducted a survey of its bliQ subscribers to determine how dealers, vendors, salespeople, and others are responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Demand Is Steady, Supply Chains Are Mostly Intact, and Everybody Is Working from Home

We’re still early in the game, so it’s difficult to predict just how much of an impact the virus will have on the industry. But based on my conversations with folks in the office scanning marketplace, I feel confident in saying that the COVID-19 outbreak is going to be a painful, costly ordeal.

Presenting Our Interactive Map of the Ongoing Pandemic

As the cases of COVID-19 increase, it can be hard to keep track of all the numbers and the effects occurring in our communities. Through DOMO—the visual data analytics tool that we here at Keypoint Intelligence use— and the data John Hopkins University is aggregating from various sources, we have developed an easy-to-use and interactive map to help you follow the changes and understand the impact of the spread of the coronavirus. Refreshes to the map happen in near real-time as JHU updates its numbers.

Examining VR’s Place in the Workflow of the 21st Century

Enter virtual reality—a relatively new tool that has experienced enormous breakthroughs over the last several years. While VR has yet to catch on commercially, it has found success in multiple business verticals. The coronavirus has given businesses a new perspective on VR and its capabilities, which is in turn helping businesses to shift into the digital economy and allow employees to work from home more efficiently.

Be Sure to Sign up for Our Coronavirus Content Feed

By now, everybody in the world is following the COVID-19 pandemic. The personal and emotional effects it is having on us—not to mention the social, business, and economic ramifications—will be felt for a long time. With all the uncertainty, including how long it will last and what the future will look like, one thing is certain: We will all be affected, business will change, and the world will shift, good or bad, based on this global situation.

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Way We Work

As the news and information surrounding COVID-19 or coronavirus becomes more frequent and urgent, many people are faced with the decision regarding how and where to work. If businesses are shut down, for indefinite periods of time, how will employees continue to get work done? If workers do work from home, will they have everything they need to continue operating as if they were in the office?

Print/IT Convergence Expert Speaks about Dealers and MSPs

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Testing Security from Three Vectors

There’s been no shortage of conversation around MFP and printer device security, with competing claims—and sometimes outright sniping—among major OEMs about who has which features and whose devices are more vulnerable to hackers. So, we here at Keypoint Intelligence - Buyers Lab said to ourselves, “Someone should do something to clarify all this,” a thought soon followed by the realization that, “and that someone should be us!”