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Legacy investment
holding businesses back
Organisations risk falling behind in the race
for competitive advantage by clinging on to
legacy communications technology, according
to Annodata who warns that companies
should think carefully about when to migrate
their existing infrastructure to the cloud.
A recent report from Hexa Research suggests
that UC is expected to grow significantly in Europe
by 2020. “Adopting UC cloud services can afford
organisations many benefits, so it makes good
business sense to ensure that an organisations’
IT strategy considers this transition or certainly
begins putting the appropriate steps in place to
ensure a seamless adoption process,” Annodata
CEO Rod Tonna-Barthet said.
“One of the major barriers to adoption
is that organisations feel they have to sweat
their historic investment in legacy technology.
Undoubtedly, businesses should always aim to
get the best performance from their existing
estates and it may be tempting to hang on to
old equipment for as long as possible. But this is
a false economy. Legacy systems can be a drain
on the IT department and maintaining these can
be cumbersome and expensive, impairing an
organisation’s growth,” he added.
Diary dates
Green Light
VOW’s Green Light event will take place on
December 2 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole.
The event, which normally takes place in January
has been brought forward, following supplier and
customer feedback.
This year’s Green Light event is set to have a brand
new format that will build on the success of previous
events. VOW says there will be an inspiring agenda
of content and educational sessions, the day will
finish with the Green Light Gala Awards Dinner to
recognise and celebrate what resellers and suppliers
have accomplished this year, and for the first time
the wholesaler will be crowning off the evening with
an after show party.
Printing Charity annual lunch
The Rt. Hon the Lord Blunkett is the guest speaker at
the Printing Charity’s 189th Annual Luncheon which
takes place on November 3 at Stationers’ Hall, Ave
Maria Lane, London.
Lord Blunkett said: “As The Printing Charity’s
President for 2016, I attended the Print Futures
Awards in July and am looking forward to the
Annual Luncheon which is a great networking
event for people working in printing, publishing and
packaging.”
Sharples staff get on
their bikes
Nine of Sharples staff members left their cars at
home on National Cycle to Work Day. They cycled
to work from three different counties, racking up a
total of more than 300 car-free miles.
Mud, sweat and tears
for charity
A team of 17 runners from Lyreco braved
six miles of mud and more than 15 brutal
obstacles to take part in the Tough Mudder
Half event at Cholmondeley Estate,
Cheshire.
The Tough Mudder team which was made
up of staff from across the country and included
France-based HR Director Morten Wiil who
travelled to the UK to take part, raised funds for
the firm’s worldwide education programme.
Trials they had to endure throughout the
run included having to push, pull, and roll their
way through 60ft of slick, rotating barriers in
muddy waters, wading through mud pits and
conquering the 10ft Hero Wall.
While his colleagues were tackling the
assault course in Cheshire, sales manager
Richard Young was facing his own challenge
competing in a Half Ironman in Weymouth,
which involved an open water sea swim of 1.2
miles at 7am in the morning followed by a 56
mile bike ride, featuring more than 2,000ft of hill
climbs and finally a 13.1 mile run.
The fundraisers, including Managing
Director Peter Hradisky, are on target to raise
more than £4,000 for Lyreco for Education, a
programme that aims to give children living in
poor conditions a better access to education.
Duplo hosts a royal London Calling
Duplo’s London Calling VIII had a distinct royal flavour this year. Its Surrey showroom was
remodelled as a 16th Century palace and the firm’s Addlestone HQ renamed ‘Automated
Precision Palace’ for the event which took place on October 4.
Visitors to this exclusive print application event enjoyed a feast of live workflow and print
demonstrations.
New was the iSaddle2 which builds on the success of the iSaddle saddle stitching family, the official
unveiling in the UK of a new Ricoh Inline Booklet System and the UK preview of the PFi DI-CUT 300 die
cutter, as well as other innovations.
Marketing Manager Sarah Crumpler said: “The concept of London Calling is always customer
focused and this year was no different. We even took the opportunity to host a customer focus group on
the day to gather customer feedback in further developing our own business, as well as helping them.”.
