Scanners
End-to-end capture out of the box
Schulz argues that as the market leader
in scanning, Fujitsu has a responsibility
to help businesses on their digital
transformation journey.
“Fujitsu comes from a history of
scanning and placing something into
a static archive. There’s so much more
value to documents if you are able to
present that information and make it
retrievable for more than just one single
process or one single person. Companies
are becoming more and more aware of
the requirement to digitise and capture
information, partially because the
legal and socio-economic framework
is imposing a requirement to move
forward with digital transformation.We
have always talked about transforming
paper and the information it holds into
a digital state.What we are doing now
is promoting a complete end-to-end
capture solution ‘out of the box’ to help
organisations move onward with their
digital trasnformation.”
Standard across the range
The other significant announcement is
that henceforth all Fujitsu fi scanners
will be supplied with PaperStream
Capture 1.5 as standard, providing a
consistent software experience across
the range, from the entry-level 7030 up
to the company’s production devices.
“With PaperStream Capture 1.5,
you can roll out exactly the same
pre-defined routines across different fi
Series models. That adds value, because
you only have to learn a single interface
or process routine; you can ensure
the quality of the digitised document
across different seats, across different
individuals; you can plan what will be
provided to your productive information
systems; and you can start to look
at streamlining processes,” explained
Schulz.
He added: “If a business’s
requirements change – like page volume,
format or workload – it is easy to
introduce additional fi Series models
without having to alter capture processes
or software routines. It is also possible
to roll out company-wide standards
for capture processes across different
workloads and format requirements,
from a small remote office to a central
mailroom.”
SME digitisation
Schulz says that by offering a full licence
of PaperStream Capture 1.5 on an entry-
level document scanner and extending it
across the range, Fujitsu is enabling SMEs
to go further with digitisation than they
have been able to in the past.
“We know from our studies that
a maximum of 30-35% of mid-sized
companies have started to embrace
digitisation and roll digital document
management right out across
the company and across multiple
departments instead of looking at just
one single line of business application or
one single isolated solution, for example,
accounts payable. In companies that
have a systematic approach to roll out
scanning, 40% of employees are involved
in digital document management or
Companies
are becoming
more and
more aware
of the
requirement
to digitise
and capture
information
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have access to digitised documents in a
systematic way.With globalisation, the
pressure on smaller mid-size companies
from global competition has increased
massively. Part of meeting that pressure
is to look at your own processes and
routines and try to increase efficiency by
transforming them into a digital state or
a digitally accelerated state,” he said.
Out of the box
Schulz added: “With the introduction of
the fi-7030, we are saying that for £500
you get an ‘out of the box’ end-to-
end solution for the complete capture
routine. You can start looking at your own
processes; mimic them in an electronic
state; roll that out; get experience of
what it means to capture information
from paper documents and feed that into
your processes. As time goes by and you
gain experience and start to understand
what the value of that is and how you
could roll that out across multiple seats,
across multiple departments, you can
start scaling up and picking from the fi
Series and right sizing depending on what
speed requirement you have. The fi 7030
is 27ppm but you could go all the way up
to 100ppm or 130ppm; you could move
from a distributed capture environment
at the desktop of the information worker
to the production side of document
capture, e.g. back office mailroom
applications; and you could stick to
exactly the same routines, procedures
and capture processes that you have
become acquainted with.”
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