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New research commissioned by Ricoh has
revealed that mid-sized businesses in Europe
could be missing out on up to £4.8 million
of annual revenues because of barriers
that hinder their growth. 16% of mid-sized
business in the UK and Ireland believe that
their revenues could have been significantly
improved by 16-20% over the last year if
such barriers to growth were not in place.
The top three obstacles to growth are the need
to comply with complex and costly regulation,
the struggle to attract the best talent and finding,
buying and applying the right technological
solutions.
According to the research, 30% of mid-sized
businesses in the UK and Ireland have yet to apply
digital solutions that would enable them to scale
up and become big brands, critical to capturing
some of the revenue they miss out on each year.
The new Kodak i3500 Scanner is the latest
addition to the i3000 Scanner family from
Kodak Alaris. With speeds up to 110 pages
per minute in colour, it is ideal for general
office settings in a wide range of industries
and vertical markets, including government,
banking, insurance and healthcare. The
included software tools extract critical data
from documents and seamlessly feed it into
existing business processes and workflows.
The company has launched this new solution to
support business and IT managers in organisations
of all sizes, in their quest to master Data Chaos.
It will quickly and affordably digitise paper-based
documents to make information easily accessible
across an organisation and help decision makers
and knowledge workers respond faster to customer
needs.
Europe’s mid-market could be
missing out
Sharp completes A3 colour MFP line-up
Four new high speed MFP models completes the company’s refreshed A3 colour line-up. The
MX series now includes thirteen devices from 30 to 60 ppm, with the latest additions offering
the same flexible workflows and easy-to-use functions
common to the whole range, plus the ability to handle
higher volume print, copy and scan jobs quickly and
efficiently.
Available in speeds of 50 and 60 ppm, the MX-5050N and
MX-6050N Essential models are adaptable devices that meet
all standard print, copy and scan needs and can be upgraded
as and when a business demands. The 50 and 60 ppm MX-
5070N and MX-6070N Advanced models combine value-
added features such as W-iFi and cloud connectivity and a
motion sensor for quicker wake-up times, with a sophisticated
solutions platform.
Print Audit Europe raises £12,000 for charity
A cycling event organised and supported by Print Audit Europe has raised £12192.15, with
donations still coming in.
A group of six cyclists rode over one thousand miles between the Channel port of St Malo and the
Mediterranean resort of Nice, in fourteen days. The ascent recorded was over 41,000 feet which is the
equivalent of climbing Ben Nevis ten times.
Managing Director Phil Madders was very grateful for all the support the team had received from
customers, suppliers and friends. He said: “They were all incredibly generous, both in their financial and
moral support. As a team, we enormously benefitted from the encouragement we received via social
media, email and text messages. And the money our ride managed to raise was absolutely fantastic!"
The charities that will benefit from the 2016 bike ride are MS Society, Cancer Research, Bloodwise,
Alzheimer’s Research UK and Woking Hospice.
This year's tour was the fourth event the company supported and the total raised so far for charity is
£37,153
Rob Tomlin, UK Managing Director, Azlan
Kodak Alaris expands scanner portfolio to drive
digital transformation
in brief...
Cloud-based mobile-only solution
for SMEs
Mobile operator iQela has launched an
innovative new service that gives small and
medium sized businesses a complete mobile-
first, cloud-based unified communications
solution. It allows businesses to take control
over their communications strategy, helping
them to mobilise their workforce, boost
productivity and eliminate expensive on-
premise hardware upgrade and maintenance
costs. In addition, mobile call recording,
compliant to all current regulations and
unlimited cloud storage are available as
dedicated services.
Contract win for HyperGrid
HyperGrid, the developer of the world’s first
and only HyperConverged Infrastructure-as-a-
Service (HCIaaS) solution has won a contract
with Infuse Technology, a Midlands IT managed
services provider.
The contract will see the deployment
of HyperGrid’s HCI and storage solutions
to provide greater agility in supporting
the organisation’s short- and long-term IT
development projects whilst significantly
reducing its costs and footprint.
Azlan strengthens management
team
Azlan, the enterprise value-added distribution
business of Tech Data, has made key additions
to its management team, naming Huw Jones as
Business Unit Manager, HP Enterprise and also
announcing the appointment of Sarah Williams
as Sales Director.
They join Simon Bennett, Business Unit
Director, Enterprise and Peter Spreadbury,
Director, Software on the Azlan management
team under UK Managing Director, Rob Tomlin.
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