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Xerox Introduces IT-as-a-Service to Help Unburden SMBs

Written by Jamie Bsales | May 5, 2026

ITaaS offering is indicative of the company’s new direction

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For many small and mid-sized organizations, IT has become more essential and harder to manage. Distributed infrastructure, hybrid work, cyber risk, software sprawl, procurement complexity, and rising cost pressure have stretched traditional managed-services models to their limits. Xerox’s new Xerox IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) is designed to address that problem by bringing IT support, automation, procurement, lifecycle management, and real-time intelligence into one unified operating platform.

Xerox ITaaS falls under the umbrella of the company’s broader IT solutions portfolio. ITaaS is available from Xerox IT Solutions across the United States, with global expansion planned throughout 2026. The platform will extend to the Xerox Global Partner Network in Q4, giving organizations access through their established provider relationships.

 

Source: Xerox

 

Based on ITsavvy and ServiceNow Expertise

Built on the ServiceNow AI Platform, the offering is one of the first major IT rollouts to debut since the company’s acquisition of ITsavvy in late 2024. Rather than treating IT as a collection of tools, tickets, vendors, and manual workflows, Xerox ITaaS aims to give organizations a single destination for managing the entire IT environment. Xerox describes the platform as a means to providing personalized, automated, end-to-end IT management that reduces risk, controls costs, and keeps business running.

The central promise of Xerox ITaaS is a move from reactive IT support to autonomous IT operations. In the traditional model, problems are often identified after users report them and then routed through people, tickets, and escalation paths. Xerox ITaaS is designed to improve that model with predictive monitoring, workflow orchestration, self-healing infrastructure, and real-time visibility. The result is intended to be a more proactive approach in which infrastructure, workflows, and decision-making are connected in real time.

 

Source: Xerox

 

Capabilities Augment and Strengthen Existing IT Resources

The platform brings together four core capabilities. Intelligent Operations provides predictive monitoring and self-healing infrastructure. AI-Driven Automation reduces manual work by orchestrating workflows across the IT environment. Integrated Procurement and Lifecycle Management gives organizations better visibility and control over assets and services. Real-Time Intelligence provides dashboards and insights that connect IT performance to business outcomes. Together, these capabilities are meant to help organizations stop simply managing IT problems and start operating IT as a strategic, data-informed service.

ServiceNow’s AI platform provides the workflow engine behind Xerox ITaaS, while Xerox brings infrastructure expertise, managed services experience, and support resources. For customers, the intended benefit is enterprise-grade visibility, automation, control, and consistency without requiring them to build and maintain a complex platform on their own. Xerox says users can access real-time insights, expert support, and tools for running modern, reliable, cost-efficient IT without juggling multiple tools, vendors, or internal resources.

For customers already receiving managed services, Xerox is emphasizing continuity rather than disruption. According to the FAQ on the Xerox ITaaS page, the platform is not meant to replace existing managed services. Instead, existing services continue while the platform unifies and improves how those services work together, adding visibility and consistency across the environment. Xerox also states that no planned downtime is expected during migration and that services are intended to remain operational throughout the transition.

The day-to-day user experience is also designed to be manageable. Customers receive access to a client portal that provides data insights and the ability to open support tickets. Xerox says it will provide a user guide for the portal, along with a dedicated phone number and email address for submitting requests to the support team. The platform is intended to improve how IT runs behind the scenes, while giving customers better visibility and outcomes rather than forcing them to master a complex new system.

Security and resilience are also core parts of the value proposition. Xerox says security, monitoring, and risk reduction are built into the platform with continuous monitoring and proactive oversight intended to reduce risk and improve resilience. For smaller organizations that may not have dedicated security operations teams, that kind of built-in oversight could be especially relevant as cyber threats increase and compliance expectations become more demanding.

 

Keypoint Intelligence Opinion

For small to medium-sized business (SMB) and mid-market organizations, the offering represents a practical path toward enterprise-grade IT operations: one partner, one platform, and a more intelligent way to manage technology at scale. That matters because mid-market organizations are increasingly expected to operate with enterprise-level sophistication even when they do not have enterprise-level IT resources. These businesses may need strong cybersecurity, resilient infrastructure, modern procurement controls, asset lifecycle visibility, and data-driven performance insights, but they often lack the internal staff or budget to stitch together multiple point solutions. Xerox ITaaS is positioned to reduce that coordination burden by unifying services into one platform and one operating model.

More importantly, it reflects a broader shift in how Xerox is positioning itself: not only as a technology and workplace solutions provider, but as a service-led, AI-enabled platform company.

 

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