01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Sales growth for Sharp Sharp Europe had the highest growth year-on-year of unit sales of all office equipment manufacturers in Eastern and Western Europe, from April to June 2021, according to the IDC Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, Q2 2021. The number of A3 monochrome multifunction printers that Sharp sold increased by 126% compared to sales in the same quarter of the previous year. As well as a solid performance in monochrome, Sharp also increased unit sales of its A3 colour MFPs in the 21-44ppm segment by 62% and is now ranked fifth in the market. Jason Cort, Director of Product Planning and Marketing, Sharp Europe said: “Sharp Europe continues to grow thanks to our focus on designing smart and flexible devices with easy-to-use intelligent features that share the same powerful performance and business functionality. We see these results as an endorsement of our A3 range and appreciation by our dealers and end-users of Sharp’s supply chain management efforts to assure product availability during these extraordinary times of component and logistic capacity shortages.” www.sharp.eu Xerox receives Terra Carta Seal Xerox has been awarded the Terra Carta Seal. The inaugural 2021 Terra Carta Seal recognises global companies that are driving innovation and demonstrating their commitment to creating genuinely sustainable markets and aligning with the ambitions of the Terra Carta recovery plan for nature, people and planet, which launched in January 2021. The Terra Carta Seal has been awarded to companies who hold a leadership position within their industry and who have credible transition roadmaps underpinned by globally recognised, scientific metrics for achieving net zero by 2050 or earlier. www.xerox.com Tenable named a leader Tenable has been named a Leader in Forrester’s report, The Forrester Wave: Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Solutions, Q4, 2021. In its first-ever ICS Security Solutions Wave, Forrester evaluated vendors’ capabilities across 27 different criteria and categorised them as leaders, strong performers, contenders and challengers. As one of only three leaders, Tenable received the highest possible scores (5.0) in seven criteria, including ICS protocol support, vulnerability risk management for operational technology, execution roadmap, innovation roadmap, planned enhancements, commercial model and product security. According to Forrester’s report: “Tenable. ot is a great fit for customers who already use Tenable in their IT environment for vulnerability risk management and seek to better understand the risks in their OT environment.” www.tenable.com MPS Monitor partners with gap intelligence MPS Monitor has announced a partnership with gap intelligence, values-led market intelligence firm. The goal is to provide additional value to the imaging dealers’ community through improved business analytics and market intelligence, deeply integrated into MPS Monitor’s Analytics BI platform. MPS Monitor provides its users with an advanced and complete business intelligence environment, fully integrated in its remote monitoring and management SaaS platform, which is used by more than 2,000 dealers in 60 countries. MPS Monitor Analytics is a full and comprehensive BI platform designed for imaging dealers, printer resellers and managed print services providers, based entirely on Microsoft Power Bi Embedded technology. Through the partnership with gap intelligence, MPS Monitor is able to substantially enrich its BI features, by adding extensive market visibility and additional insights. Gap intelligence provides a complete and updated dataset with market information and product specifications coming from its internal expertise and its continuous monitoring activity of the print industry: millions of data points containing product specifications and configurations, consumables associations, dates of announcement and retirement from the market, energy consumption – and many others – are now available for each single standard model for all main printer manufacturers. This dataset is now merged inside the MPS Monitor Cloud data warehouse on which the Analytics system runs. The result is a massive increase in the ability to create insights and data visualisations, by leveraging the power of real-time data coming from devices together with extensive market data and product specifications. A new MPS Monitor feature, called Standard Models Association, will enable users to take advantage of these increased Analytics capabilities in a very simple and guided way. www.mpsmonitor.com Gartner recognises M-Files M-Files has been recognised in the 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Content Services Platforms report. In the Gartner evaluation of 20 vendors on four uses cases, M-Files received scores that were among the top three highest. The company received the highest score for the information governance use case (4.18 out of 5) and the second-highest score for the business role hub document management use case (3.61 out of 5), which the company views as a testament to its innovative federation and metadata capabilities. In addition, M-Files achieved the thirdhighest score among 20 vendors in the content and process automation use case (3.55 out of 5) and the cloud office content services use case (3.46 out of 5). In addition to use cases, the report also evaluated vendors on critical capabilities. www.m-files.com
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