ernalising those with the most promise, it refines and improves xerographic marking technologies, and it integrates marking and related technologies into prototype marking platforms, usually in collaboration with suppliers. Xerox Architecture Center (XAC) is driving Xerox to achieve “enterprise coherence” by overseeing the company’s Document Systems Coherence Program. Its goal is to enable Xerox to offer products and services that are fully interoperable, easy to use and consistent in performance. Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) formed in 1993 and comprises of three organisations located at two sites, Greenoble in France and Cambridge in England. It pursues commercialisation opportunities and has increased the visibility of Xerox’s systems research efforts through extensive participation in European and other scientific collaboration. Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC) is Xerox’s strategic materials research centre. It enables the flow document materials in both paper and digital word from research concepts or document solutions.Xerox has always been known as being an inventive and innovative organisation. The PARC centre in California is well known for having developed the network technology Ethernet, although it never pushed it enough and got little reward for its endeavours. It was the first to create the graphical user interface that most people with computers will be aware of and that is now incorporated into Microsoft Windows. Xerox still is a dominant force and an innovator in black and white copying, office and data centre printing, production publishing and through Fuji Xerox (its affiliate) a leader in colour copying and printing. Although Xerox have had a bad year financially it still produces massive amounts of new innovative inventions particularly from its original research centre PARC. Some sources within the industry feel now are the time for Xerox to outsourc...
