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IN THIS ISSUE
04
Agenda
London has healthiest workers
10
Innovations
The month’s best new products
12
Cover Story
Canon offers 3-year warranties
15
Digitisation
Improving document processes through workflow automation
18
Printers
What’s new in printers and MFPs
21
Inkjet Printers
Business inkjets buck the trend in UK printer market
23
Presentations
Laser projectors have lower TCO
24
Displays
The Top 10 trends in displays
27
Communications
Transforming patient care in the South-west
28
Mobile Comms
Lack of awareness hinders 4G adoption
30
Telecoms
What UK Calling means for you
32
The Cloud
The benefits of the cloud for SMEs
34
Workplace
How office design can improve collaboration
37
Internet of Things
The rubbish bin of the future
38
The Month in Numbers
The latest IT and office survey results
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Writing in our sister publication
PrintIT
, Emma Thomas,
Head of Sales South & Brokers (Vendor Finance) at Siemens
Financial Services, explains how smart financing can help
businesses update their technology to remain competitive
without using up valuable capital. As a provider of leasing
solutions you would expect her to say that. But that doesn’t
mean she is wrong. As we report on page 4, new research
by ADP suggests that British workers are falling behind
their European counterparts when it comes to the provision
of essential productivity tools. Nuance reached a similar
conclusion in a recent pan-European survey of speech
recognition and PDF software adoption. Could this help
explain the UK’s poor productivity levels?
A new survey by Vodafone highlights low adoption of another
technology that has the potential to improve the productivity
of SMEs. It found that more than three quarters of UK SMEs still
don’t have 4G and are missing out on the speed and reliability
improvements that it offers. Once again, this is not entirely
self-serving. Root Metrics analysis covered on page 28 shows
that 4G’s benefits are real. That said, being lectured by a mobile
phone company on the need to upgrade technology to remain
competitive is beyond irritating considering the UK’s patchy
mobile coverage. I wonder how many businesses with flexible
working policies find that, even in 2015, some employees are
unable to use their company mobile when working from home.
For just as long, too many homeworkers have had to put up with
inadequate broadband, so new Ofcom rules that make it easier
for consumers to switch broadband or landline supplier are most
welcome. From June 20, there will be a ‘one touch’ process for
switching between providers who use the Openreach telecoms
network, including BT, EE, Sky and TalkTalk. This places responsibility
for the broadband or landline switch entirely in the hands a
customer’s new provider, including contract cancellations and
switching codes. Even more welcome is a new Code of Practice
that enables customers to exit a contract without penalty should
broadband speeds fall below acceptable levels. In announcing the
changes, Ofcom chief executive SharonWhite said: “When Ofcom
was established, access to a reliable internet connection and mobile
phone was a ‘nice to have’. Now it is essential to the functioning
of the economy, to the way people work and live their lives.” How
regrettable that the Government thinks it more important to cut
30 or 40 minutes off train journey times than to provide a truly
national high speed broadband network.
James Goulding, Editor
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