“Smartness” is all the rage, but how far are Smart devices and solutions making it into the workplace? Keypoint Intelligence asked 260 IT decision-makers across the UK & Germany and discovered some interesting things including who is likely to invest and in what.
By way of definition, let’s start with what is Smart workplace?
Figure 1: Smart Workplace Segments by KPI
Having stemmed from the document imaging industry, Keypoint Intelligence puts the MFP at the heart of the Smart workplace Taxonomy. Figure 1 shows the evolving segments that are morphing out around the smart workplace.
But what of IT decision makers? At the moment Smart workplace technology is not showing as an item on the list of how IT budget is allocated but that doesn’t say that decision makers are not interested: From a survey of 260 IT DM in Germany and the UK, 50% reported that their highest levels of investment into smart workplace were in document automation. These respondents , from a range of company sizes and vertical industries, were given the list of technologies in figure 2 and asked to comment on where they had already invested, where they were considering investment and where they were unlikely to invest.
Figure 2: How likely is your company to invest in the following Smart Workplace technologies?
Vendors and resellers alike are crying out for differentiators and smart workplace is one area that has great potential which is important to combat declining page volumes. An investment in smart workplace tech is an investment in the entire office. A wave of tech is breaching, and business is buying, now.