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IN THIS ISSUE
05
Agenda
The secrets of successful collaboration, plus
the pros and cons of IT consumerisation
11
Cloudforce 2011
Why now is the time to become a social
enterprise
12
Managed Print Services
Berlin is the place to be on October 11-12
14
Cloud Computing
Costas Galonis explains why cloud
computing is the height of fashion
16
Cover Story
Olivetti unveils the amazing
Olitouch electronic fling
cabinet
19
Innovations
New products and
services for the
modern workplace
28
Inkjet vs Lasers
Which technology is best for small offces?
We present two opposing views
32
Dictation
Olympus’s latest offering for professional
dictation users
34
Mailing
New products and services
for the mailroom
36
Lighting
How to save energy with
LED lighting
39
Offce Agenda
The growing benefts of green roofs,
plus higher standards for offce desks
magazine
Fear and inspiration
As a great salesman, salesforce.com CEO
Marc Benioff knows how to motivate an audience.
His presentation on ‘the social enterprise’ at this
year’s Cloudforce conference was a classic of its
type, mixing fear and inspiration in equal measure
(see page 11 for more details). Many will have
left the auditorium believing totally in his vision
and impatient to start integrating their enterprise
systems with social networks. Others will have felt
real unease at the exploitation of people’s personal
details for commercial gain – and then fearful that
such qualms mark them out as ‘yesterday’s men’
out of touch with modern sensibilities.
MPS without fear
Copier dealers rarely elicit much sympathy, but
perhaps we should be more understanding of them.
Who knows, we may even miss them when they are
gone. Photizo Group’s Ed Crowley is as good at Fear
with a capital F as Marc Benioff. On October 11-12
at Photizo’s European MPS Conference in Berlin (see
preview on page 12) he will once again tell hardware
resellers that their world is about to come crashing
down about their heads, as managed print services
(MPS) utterly transform the print industry.
The transition from a hardware- to a services-based
model that MPS heralds will force resellers to
learn new skills and competencies or wither
away as better resourced rivals and IT services
companies pick up the most lucrative contracts.
MPS has consequences for end users, too, but they
are nearly all positive. Photizo’s MPS Conference
is a must for FMs and IT directors, if only because
for two days they will be able to face the future
without fear – and in this era of rapid change that is
an opportunity to be seized with both hands.
James Goulding, Editor