Ricoh Cloud Workflow Solutions

2018: Announcement of a product

At the end of June, 2018 the Japanese producer of the printing equipment of Ricoh provided a set of the Cloud Workflow Solutions technologies providing to small and medium business (SMB) access to digital office in a cloud.

New solutions from Ricoh help the companies to reduce manual entry of data and to manage interaction of the different systems. At the same time employees can work in any place and at any time.

Ricoh provided to small business digital office in a cloud

Follows from the press release of the producer that about 84% of the small companies still rely on manual processes in spite of the fact that development of a digital ecosystem does extremely difficult management of such company and calls into question its competitiveness. Small firms have no opportunities or resources for use of effective tools and the organization of workflows from different applications, the head of the Canadian representative office of Ricoh Glenn Laverty notes.

The Ricoh Cloud Workflow Solutions set provides tools for creation of communications and development of automation. These solutions help to turn multi-function printers into this center for office and joint work. The model of a subscription makes this product portfolio available, scaled and optimized in order that SMB could involve it as much as possible — Laverti noted.

Three principal components are a part of a product:

• Cloud Connectors. Provides interface of the multifunction device to cloud applicaions, such as mobile printing or text recognition. In total more than 20 applications;
• Cloud Workflows. It is intended for creation of the processing of documents specialized for this organization;
• Cloud Services can be used for the organization of difficult applications of document handling of "full stroke" — from information extraction from paper and electronic documents before transfer and its integration into applications of the corresponding business processes.^[1] 

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