Print.IT Reseller - issue 83

01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Kyocera partners with M-Files M-Files has announced a new alliance with Kyocera Document Solutions UK which will see the two companies collaborate with joint marketing and sales to offer the other’s solutions to their customers and prospects. Christian Habenstein, Director Channel Sales Western Europe at M-Files, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Kyocera. We feel that our complementary offerings enable our common customers to be more efficient while at the same time, they can reduce their costs and improve their customer service. Although the new partnership has just been signed, we are already seeing substantial demand in terms of several interesting opportunities.” Spencer Lea, Sales Director – Comprehensive Services at Kyocera added: “Our customers will benefit from the M-Files next-generation intelligent information management platform. Other platforms require months of work in defining folder structures, migrating data into those new folder structures, and getting buy-in from key stakeholders and employees. M-Files plugs into data repositories on day one, allowing employees to access documents they need from anywhere and giving the companies value from M-Files within a week or two of adopting it.” www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk www.m-files.com MPS Monitor partners with Okta MPS Monitor has announced that the company’s SaaS platform is now integrated with Okta, the leading independent identity provider. Okta Identity integration provides single sign-on access to authenticate users on the MPS Monitor 2.0 Portal. The integration is available immediately to all MPS Monitor 2.0 users worldwide. MPS Monitor's Okta integration ensures managed print services providers and customers benefit from maximum security and ease of access to the SaaS platform. Okta Identity integration enables users to sign on across domains with a single online identity. It works seamlessly in the background by passing authentication details from the user’s organisational credentials to the MPS Monitor SaaS service, in a secure and private manner. This helps to save time and money by simplifying the user experience, but also greatly increases the security profile of the platform by preventing the use of insecure or weak credentials. Nicola De Blasi, CEO MPS Monitor, said: “Partnering with Okta to create a deep integration between our SaaS application and the customer’s secure identity infrastructure provides an additional and very important step to ensuring full and comprehensive compliance with the most stringent security standards and requirements. We are also very happy to grant our customers free access to Okta technology through the Okta Cloud Connect program, so that all of them can benefit from this integration, even if they are not yet Okta subscribers.” www.mpsmonitor.com Centre for digital technologies Sharp has announced the new Centre for Digital Technologies in partnership with South Essex College, Basildon. This significant design and install project is a one-of-a-kind facility for the UK, providing students and staff with access to a highly integrated suite of the latest digital printing and audio visual presentation learning technologies. The partnership is planned to expand in the future as the college develops its on-premise Technology Suite. This will provide students with access to products and new technologies being launched in the UK market by Sharp. The company will also be able to access the suite to demonstrate these products to customers and prospective customers onsite. Students will also be supported by Sharp as they begin their careers with apprenticeships, mentoring, work experience and a series of four guest speaker talks at the college where the company’s experts will share their experience of working in the global technology sector. Simon Warnes, Director of Connect Partnerships, Sharp UK, said: “This has been an exciting project for the whole Sharp team. Given the year everyone has had, we wanted to ensure the value we are adding at South Essex College goes beyond the technology and facilities we’ve installed. We’re delighted to be partnering with the college long term and to be able to lend our continued support, expertise and guidance to both students and staff.” www.sharp.co.uk Spencer Lea Christian Habenstein Microsoft global managed partner Konica Minolta has achieved Microsoft Global Managed Partner status. The designation reinforces its goal of bringing greater focus to its global strategic direction via jointly developed, industry-specific solutions and services and by delivering IT cloud services and solutions for the digital workplace at small and medium-sized businesses in the majority of the countries it serves. “We are delighted to partner with Konica Minolta on a global level to accompany their growth in IT and to unlock the opportunities of digital transformation for their customers,” said Casey McGee, Vice President, ISV Sales at Microsoft. “The Microsoft Cloud is uniquely positioned to provide a breadth of industry-leading services and products to support Konica Minolta's development of differentiated solutions for the digital workplace.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk EveryonePrint partners with HP Inc. EveryonePrint has announced a new global strategic relationship with HP Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, HP will expand its managed print services offering to include the EveryonePrint Hybrid Cloud Platform (HCP). HCP is an all-in-one multi-tenant print infrastructure solution. It is completely serverless and fully flexible. There are zero upfront costs, organisations simply pay for the licences they need and it’s easy to scale consumption up or down, to accommodate changing business needs. Paul Birkett, Head of Commercial Software and Solutions, HP Inc. said: “With the addition of HCP into our portfolio, we can help clients migrate print servers to the cloud to streamline print infrastructure management and enable flexible at home working – all through a simple single agreement.” www.everyoneprint.com ENTRIES NOW OPEN ONLINE www.pr int i tawards .co.uk