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IDC Marketscape names Lexmark a leader in cloud MPS

‘Continues to drive innovation’: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud MPS Hardcopy 2022 Vendor Assessment

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Report Summary

The IDC Marketscape identifies Lexmark’s strengths and differentiators in cloud-based managed print services:

• Lexmark continues to drive innovation within its overall approach to MPS, with a focus on simplifying all aspects of the print experience.

• With Cloud Bridge, Lexmark can deliver the full range of its managed service offerings in essentially any environment, bringing the value proposition of MPS to a broader range of customers from small and medium businesses (SMB) to enterprise.

• The elements that make Lexmark a leader in MPS — such as investments in IoT printing, hardware, security expertise, and a global service delivery platform — help it lead the market’s transition to print as a service.

Organisations should consider Lexmark when looking to move to any form of cloud-based print services model, whether that is a simple cloud-based pull print solution or a full-blown Next-Gen Print Infrastructure-as-a-Service program. Lexmark’s broad range of services combined with its Cloud Bridge technology and modular delivery model means that customers can engage regardless of where they are in the cloud migration journey. ¹

Robert Palmer
Research Vice President, Imaging, Printing and Document Solutions
International Data Corporation (IDC)

1IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud MPS Hardcopy 2022 Vendor Assessment, January 2022, IDC #US47337721  

About IDC MarketScape

The IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilises a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.