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KON Office Solutions Selects Kofax Front Office Server as a Product of Choice for Its MFP Devices
Friday 02. July 2010 - Expanded Alliance Will Bring Front Office Server to a Broader Market
Kofax plc (LSE: KFX), the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions, today announced an expanded relationship with strategic alliance partner IKON Office Solutions, Inc., a Ricoh company, in which IKON will offer Kofax Front Office Server to empower its multi-function peripheral (MFP) devices with robust, industry-leading office automation capabilities.
The recently released 3.0 version of Kofax Front Office Server allows users to capture forms and documents at their points of origin through MFPs, desktop scanners and other devices for accelerated processing through Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation Modules software, and to access scan-to-email and scan-to-fax capabilities. Kofax Front Office Server is a distributed solution that supports Ricohs full line of MFP offerings. This latest agreement with IKON will bring Kofax Front Office Server to a broader market of potential users.
“Having IKON offer Kofax Front Office Server to its customers is a huge step in our goal of becoming the leading provider of these office automation solutions worldwide,” said Alan Kerr, Executive Vice President of Field Operations at Kofax. “Weve enjoyed a successful relationship with IKON as a strategic alliance partner in the past, and this latest agreement will only strengthen our alliance and grow our successes.”
“As Kofaxs Partner of the Year in 2009, we are pleased to expand our relationship through this latest alliance agreement,” said Mike Dane, Vice President of Marketing, Ricoh U.S., for Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Adding Kofax Front Office Server strengthens our robust portfolio of solutions for our users, and reinforces our leadership position in offering copiers, printers and MFP technologies to our growing customer base.”
Kofax Front Office Server enables customer-facing employees to trigger back-office business processes directly from familiar, front-office equipment, such as MFPs, desktop scanners and other devices. Employees initiate processes at the MFP display or with a few clicks in a thin-client scan application. This office automation solution eliminates the time required to ship paper to centralized locations and enables more productive scan-to-email and scan-to-fax capabilities. The time spent sorting, packing, tracking, and filing paper can be replaced with higher value, customer-facing activities.