01732 759725 42 optimise workflows and gain better visibility over how their print environments are being used. Importantly, it can present this information in a more user-friendly and personalised way. We are increasingly seeing organisations use dashboards that provide real-time, clean and tailored data. These insights are helping inform wider decisions about print and IT infrastructure as part of broader business strategies. For customers, partners and resellers, this opens the door to more flexible service models, including usagebased approaches and more tailored offerings that align closely with evolving business needs. PrintIT Reseller: What role do you see AI playing in advancing customers’ sustainability goals whether through reducing waste, optimising energy consumption, or enabling smarter decision-making? Andy Bryant: Vasion’s analytics reveal waste – abandoned jobs, under-utilised devices, unnecessary colour printing. Cost management enforces quotas; secure release prevents abandoned Kerry Rush, Product Marketing Manager, Sharp UK: AI has strong potential when it comes to analysing print usage data and supporting more informed decisionmaking. While AI is still in its infancy within print, its ability to process large volumes of data quickly and accurately brings clear benefits. AI-driven analytics can help organisations identify inefficiencies, John Green, Managing Director, Commerce Business Systems: We can predict certain trends before providing our solution to new and existing customers. This means that what we offer will be scalable and sustainable for longer periods, which is great for our sustainability targets and those of our partners. Graham Foxwell, Product Marketing Lead, Kyocera Document Solutions UK: AI-driven analytics can unlock end-toend visibility across print and digital workflows. These insights include but are not limited to identifying under-utilised devices or redundant processes, highlighting opportunities for digitisation and automation, and enabling new service models such as pay-per-workflow rather than pay‑per-print. This shifts the conversation from hardware-centric managed print services to workflow-centric managed services, creating value for both customers and resellers. Ian Silvester, General Manager, EKM Global: AI is extremely powerful in print environments because print generates high-volume, highly structured, and continuous data – from job types and volumes to device performance, user behaviour, and cost patterns. What AI does differently from traditional reporting is its capability to connect patterns across time, device, users, and locations, and turn that into predictive prescriptive insights. Giving customers actionable insights to reduce cost and risk, while enabling resellers to deliver smarter services, differentiated value, and more predictable recurring revenue. VOX POP …continued John Green Kerry Rush
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