The OEM’s software platform will allow bizhub MFPs to “be enhanced” by additional functionality.
The OEM announced that both its US and European subsidiaries are launching the “new and enhanced version” of the platform, to “accommodate the global market” and the US Europe with a “variety of applications and helpful features”. The new platform aims to accelerate “customers’ business by expanding MFP functionality”, and allows the MFPs to “be enhanced by easily adding functions that are required to meet challenges of everyday businesses”.
The platform, available now throughout the US and Europe, “assists customers in maximising their productivity” through “more flexibility in adapting devices to everyday routines”, and “allows the functionality of Konica Minolta’s multifunctional products to be easily enhanced by adding apps to the devices without the need to buy expensive software”. It is also said to feature “quick access and easy set-up”, and the ability to connect to OneDrive, Google Drive, SharePoint and other platforms.
Konica Minolta noted that these connections provide “quick access to documents with the benefits of secure processes and state-of-the-art technology”, while “in order to keep maintenance costs low and productivity high, the initial set-up as well as updates and additional apps are deployed remotely”. With devices centrally managed, all apps are “kept up-to-date automatically with no extra charges”.
An additional feature allows users to “get a personalised MFP user interface with an individual design and features” that fit “within specific workflows and corporate design guidelines”. Such services include “consultancy, design and guidance” through features and workflows “that can be made available on the display”, and are “deployed remotely, which benefits major enterprises with many staff”.
The MarketPlace is also said by the OEM to be “perfectly suited for every customer’s needs”, and “offers benefits for businesses of all sizes”, with “one of the biggest advantages” that the MFP “adapts to the customer’s working behaviour, and not the other way around”. The “large variety” of available apps meanwhile makes it “simple to streamline the workflow, while saving time and costs, which essentially means more time for the core business”.