As part of a strategy to
expand into other areas of
workplace technology and
services, Ricoh has launched
new Meeting Room Services
in partnership with meeting
room booking specialist
Condeco.
Part of Ricoh’s Workplace
Services portfolio, the
integrated package of
consultancy, product delivery
and support offers analysis
of an organisation’s meeting
space utilisation and advice on
how it can be improved.
Typically, this includes
changes to lay-outs and the
introduction of Condeco booking
and scheduling technology that
can be used for everything from
the booking of meeting rooms
and the sending of invitations
to the reservation of car parking
spaces and catering.
Condeco solutions give
managers oversight of room
usage and enable employees
to book meeting rooms (or
hot desks) on the fly, manage
no-shows and begin/end a
meeting by swiping their ID
card or entering a PIN code at a
touch screen in the room.
Other options include
wireless sensors to track actual
room utilisation and digital
signage in reception areas so
that visitors can see where a
meeting is taking place.
Kyocera gives employees
starring role in new ads
KyoceraDocument Solutions UK is
refreshing its brand image with a £1
million advertising campaign that puts
its own employees centre-stage.
Rob Attryde, head of marketing at
Kyocera, said: “Extensive research
showed that our traditional brand
messages were losing traction and
we were considering what could be a
significant differentiator for our business
in the UK. Research and feedback suggested that our people
are the common denominator of our success over the last three
years and as an authentic brand we decided to use our own
people in our new brand images.
“We asked for staff volunteers and set up a photo shoot
in our Head Office earlier this year. These images will appear
across our advertising (online, out-of-home, print), event stands,
eDM, websites, PR and marketing collateral so that every
element of our marketing communications will be telling the
Kyocera story. What’s great for the people involved is that their
contribution to the company and its growth is recognised and
will be highlighted in our marketing activity.”
Kofax, a provider of smart
process applications for
customer interactions, has
acquired electronic signature
software and services
specialist Softpro GmbH. The
acquisition will enable its
customers to implement fully
digital end-to-end processes
using e-signatures instead of
‘wet ink’.
Softpro’s SignDoc electronic
signature software offers
click-to-sign and physical
signature capture, signature
verification and fraud detection.
It is available for on-premise
or cloud deployments and
processes over 200 million
electronic signatures annually.
Reynolds C. Bish, chief
executive officer of Kofax, said:
“Softpro has established itself
as a trusted solution provider
with many of the world’s
largest banks, leading financial
institutions, retailers and
government agencies in more
than 50 countries. Its software
offers enhanced capabilities
to Kofax customers who want
to embed it within their smart
process applications.”
Forrester Research says
electronic signatures are gaining
momentum as prices fall and
businesses seek to reduce
transaction costs and speed
up processes. In its report,
The
Forrester Wave: E-Signatures
,
it states: “Enterprise architects
should include e-signature as
part of an overall enterprise
content management (ECM) and
business process management
(BPM) strategy, making it a
foundational technology along
with records management,
eDiscovery and other content
services used across all lines of
business.”
Kofax acquires digital signature specialist
Blue Angel award
for Kyocera
Blue Angel, the respected
environmental certification
programme run by Germany’s
Federal Ministry for the Environment,
Nature Conservation, Building and
Nuclear Safety, has named Kyocera Document Solutions
Deutschland GmbH as winner of its Blue Angel 2014 award.
Presented as part of the German Sustainability Awards, the
award was given to Kyocera in recognition of its commitment to
environmentally responsible printing. Kyocera was the first printer
manufacturer to achieve Blue Angel certification for one of its
products, in 1997. Today, its line-up includes around 50 Blue Angel-
accredited print devices.
Lexmark continues
buying spree with
acquisition of
Claron Technology
Lexmark has acquired
Toronto-based Claron
Technology for $37 million
in cash. The leading provider
of medical image viewing,
distribution, sharing and
collaboration software
will report into Lexmark’s
Perceptive Software.
Claron’s enterprise medical
image viewing platform
provides web-based access to
patient images from picture
archiving and communication
systems (PACS) or vendor-
neutral archives (VNAs),
enabling doctors, clinicians
and specialists in different
organisations to view and
collaborate on patient
information and medical
images via desktop computers
and mobile devices.
Ricoh partners with
Condeco in expansion of
services portfolio
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