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Konica Minolta presented its vision for the Workplace of the Future at CeBIT 2017
At CeBIT 2017, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe (Konica Minolta) was showcasing revolutionary concepts for the Workplace of the Future. As a representative of this year’s partner country Japan, Konica Minolta used the stage to give insights into what will drive digital transformation for the workforce. Face recognition, predictive software solutions and smart Internet of Things office furniture are just a few of the innovative answers to the changing demands of the workforce. The company appreciates the new concept of Deutsche Messe AG for CeBIT 2018.

Visitors had the opportunity to experience first-hand different solutions for the Workplace of the Future at Konica Minolta’s climate-neutral booth at CeBIT. Since the working environment is changing fast, so are the needs towards supporting technologies. Konica Minolta and their highly specialised cooperation partners are delivering cutting-edge solutions to answer these needs. Visitors were especially impressed by the approach, story and thoughts around the Workplace of the Future presented at the booth. Additionally, the integration of innovative technology that strongly focuses on people and fosters engagement hit the nerve of partners and customers alike and positioned Konica Minolta as a strong partner for IT services and solutions.

Konica Minolta’s IoT (Internet of Things) strategy

Together with MOBOTIX AG, a German specialist for intelligent IP video solutions, Konica Minolta demonstrated how employees without a fixed workplace could be guided to a free office desk through face recognition when they enter the company. As space is becoming an increasingly scarce resource in the corporate world, it is important to be able to manage and utilise it as efficiently as possible. With its predictive technology, Konica Minolta offers the opportunity to optimise the use of meeting rooms and office desk space, to ensure best collaboration and teamwork while maintaining privacy at the same time.

In collaboration with ARUP, Konica Minolta displayed an intelligent IoT office desk, which is able to measure room temperature, humidity, lighting, air quality and other parameters. The idea is to provide optimal working conditions for highest efficiency and productivity, as all these factors have substantial influence on the cognitive performance of knowledge workers.

To help empower customers in the digital workplace, Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta, Inc., explained in his keynote on Tuesday Konica Minolta’s IoT strategy with two elements: Building a superior “cyber physical system” and offering a unique mix of cloud and edge IoT technologies to support cost-effective decision-making. Konica Minolta’s cyber physical system turns information from the real world into meaningful cyber analysis and the provision of solutions via superior input devices. Combining the company’s expertise in light, image processing, sensing and materials with cutting-edge IoT technologies, Konica Minolta creates devices, which compile images, video and data into quantifiable parameters to offer new value.

Designed to be sustainable

Konica Minolta, an ambassador for 2017’s CeBIT partner country Japan, proudly contributed to the opening ceremony on Sunday, March 19th. The “Japan Show Act” pictured the country’s thoughts and expectations towards future technologies through an artistic performance supported by Japanese companies and their innovations. With the groundbreaking Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) panel technology, which was incorporated in the performance costumes, Konica Minolta emphasised their environmental consciousness and their pioneer position among the Japanese IT and Tech companies.

“Ikuo Nakagawa, President of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe Especially with the background of Japan being this year’s partner country, we are very proud to be an exhibitor at CeBIT for the third consecutive time and showcase our wide portfolio of innovative technologies. Ikuo Nakagawa, President of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe„

For next year, Deutsche Messe AG announced a completely new concept for CeBIT 2018 and beyond.

“Ikuo Nakagawa, President of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe
We from Konica Minolta consider the changes positively. The new concept shows courage for a change which we consider necessary.
Ikuo Nakagawa, President of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe„

With the wide range of environmentally considerate products, such as the world’s first flexible colour-tuneable OLED lighting panels, and an officially certified climate-neutral booth, Konica Minolta reinforces its position as a sustainably acting company by supporting the EcoVision 2050 targets of reducing CO2 emissions by 80% compared to 2005 levels. By supporting the certified Carbon Offset Project: Hydropower Project Renun Indonesia, Konica Minolta compensates for the calculated 127,670 kg CO2 emissions of the company’s participation in CeBIT 2017.

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About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan, forming part of its Business Technologies business area. As a leading global services provider in the field of IT- and document processes as well as digital production printing solutions, the company excels in services-led business consulting, implementation and management and provides a range of world-leading printing systems and solutions. In this context, Konica Minolta’s Optimized Print Services concept (OPS) combines consultancy, hardware, software implementation, and operation in order to enhance business process efficiency and cost-effectiveness. To support customers optimally with powerful and sustainable solutions, technology leader Konica Minolta continuously invests in research and development work and regularly sets new standards.
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is represented by subsidiaries and distributors in more than 80 countries in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. With over 35,000 employees around the world (as of March 2016), Konica Minolta’s Business Technologies business area earned net sales of over EUR 6.2 billion in the 2015/16 financial year.
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Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has introduced Workplace Hub, an innovative new enterprise IT solution that unifies all of an organisation’s technology via a single centralised platform. Designed to future-proof workplaces of every size as they work towards digital transformation, version one of Workplace Hub, available from Autumn 2017, directly addresses growing IT complexity by providing more efficient and effective management of the disparate array of tools, services and devices used by modern organisations.

This new platform represents the next phase of Konica Minolta’s long history in innovation, marking its position in the IT services market and perfectly placing the firm to meet the evolving needs of business customers. Acting as a central hub that simplifies IT for an organisation, Workplace Hub drives efficiencies by reducing the overall costs of IT management and service provision, and providing real-time data-driven insights that help to improve business processes. By creating an ecosystem to manage and coordinate the entire IT infrastructure and services across existing and future IT systems, devices and services, Workplace Hub provides users with a central dashboard showing 360-degree visibility of IT usage patterns across the whole business, allowing for simple management and optimisation of systems.

This new platform represents the next phase of Konica Minolta’s long history in innovation, marking its position in the IT services market and perfectly placing the firm to meet the evolving needs of business customers. Acting as a central hub that simplifies IT for an organisation, Workplace Hub drives efficiencies by reducing the overall costs of IT management and service provision, and providing real-time data-driven insights that help to improve business processes. By creating an ecosystem to manage and coordinate the entire IT infrastructure and services across existing and future IT systems, devices and services, Workplace Hub provides users with a central dashboard showing 360-degree visibility of IT usage patterns across the whole business, allowing for simple management and optimisation of systems.

Moreover, the platform’s product roadmap includes future integration of IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Edge and Decision Support capabilities as they become more central to the business environment of tomorrow. Adding this cognitive layer of organisational insight unleashes an intuitive understanding of the world that empowers people to collaborate better and to make smarter, data-driven decisions more effectively and easily.

Global partnerships with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sophos and Microsoft deliver best in class hardware, security and IT solutions. Additional services from Canonical and BrainTribe bring the power of open source and advanced data management, helping to facilitate effective digital transformation for any business.

Dennis Curry, a Vice President and Director of Business Innovation and R&D at Konica Minolta, said “Workplace Hub will evolve to become the most comprehensive platform for the services and capabilities demanded by the workplace of the future. It means businesses can grow and manage their IT in tandem with changing business needs. It simplifies IT operations today and paves the way for exciting new integrations, such as AI and intelligent edge computing, to become a central part of the digital organisation of the future.”

This strategic shift will allow Konica Minolta to deliver more comprehensive digital transformation solutions, while continuing its heritage of providing the very best products and services for the business market as a whole.

“The workplace is evolving at an unparalleled rate and digital transformation is becoming increasingly important to both survival and future prosperity,” said Shoei Yamana, CEO and President of Konica Minolta Inc. “Workplace Hub not only allows businesses of all sizes to achieve effective transformation, but future-proof themselves against the next wave of technology innovations already infiltrating the business environment.”

Workplace Hub version one will be available from Autumn 2017 to organisations looking for enterprise quality managed services at an affordable price.

More information on the launch event, keynote speakers and panel discussions can be found at workplacehub.konicaminolta.comworkplacehub.konicaminolta.com New Window.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta, Inc. is a global technology company that provides innovative solutions to businesses and society. With its strengths in the combination of its core technologies in advanced imaging, optics, sensing, materials and nano-processing, Konica Minolta is committed to create new values that help customers address challenges in their operations and work processes. Advancing its expertise in digital technologies, the company has been going through business transformation into problem-solving digital company across the board as One Konica Minolta in the era of Internet of the Things (IoT). Konica Minolta is also active in open innovation through various collaborations and alliances with academic, industrial and entrepreneurial partners.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Konica Minolta has its Group companies in 50 countries with over 43,000 employees and offers products and services in 150 countries around the world.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions, a global leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies recently organised a roadshow in Nalgonda, Telangana where it demonstrated its state-of-the-art Production Printers with the pivotal highlights of the event being the bizhub PRESS C71hc & C1060 production printer.

The roadshow was organised to showcase the company’s production printers as well
as to furnish a platform for the printing businesses about the next generation technologies in the vertical. It was also focused to meet the customer’s end to end demands and gain a 360-degree visibility in their industry related requirements.

About bizhub C71hc and C1060

The 3rd generation machine bizhub PRESS C71hc packs in immense benefits over its predecessor. This model incorporates advanced colour reproduction capabilities of the manufacturer’s proprietary high-chroma toner that produces enhanced printing outputs. bizhub PRESS C71hc also comes with an optional banner tray to support the printing on media up to 13×47. This gives the customers to print bigger format of photo albums. Another asset of the bizhub PRESS C71hc is their wide range of finishing capabilities and its combination with a workflow software Print Xpress.

Konica Minolta’s bizhub PRESS C1060 is an ideal solution for small as well as mid-range industrial printing businesses, delivering a fast print/copy output of up-to 60 ppm. With a superior colour image quality, purpose built reliability and simple touchscreen control, a business can receive every advantage of digital production like variable-data printing and scanning.

Konica Minolta’s highly skilled and dedicated engineers have also incorporated the bizhub PRESS C1060 with a 7,500-sheet maximum paper capacity for long press runs without interruption. The printing solution is compatible with paper sizes of upto 13’’x 19.2” and weights up to 300 gsm. It also offers versatile inline finishing options to suit any production requirements.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions comes as a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. The Japan headquartered company is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. The company with its high quality printing solutions, particularly for SMBs, offers unmatched customer service in India. With ‘Digital Printing’ being the next big thing in the country’s printing space, the company is committed to fetch help businesses transit smoothly from conventional printing to digital printing.

The flagship models bizhub PRESS C1085/C1100 furnish the printing businesses with an advantage of a seamless growth in their operations, catering to the high volume printing demands of customers with unprecedented precision stability and unmatched productivity.

Aforesaid both digital colour printing solutions also offer comprehensive configuration options to enhance the printing business offerings with high level of automation.

The bizhub PRESS C1100 and C10850 offers printing speeds of 100/85 A4ppm respectively on 55 to 350 gsm papers, printing businesses can smoothly perform operations of small lot orders and variable data printing jobs with stringent deadlines, generating new revenue streams. The machines are capable of doing Auto Duplex printing upto 350 GSM at the same productivity. The suction feeding system in the machine helps to attain the high productivity reliably.

The bizhub PRESS C1100 & C1085 offers stable high image quality as required by professional users for high volume printing. With the presence of cutting edge Simitri HDE toner and S.E.A.D. IV image processing technologies the machines, are perfectly aligned to customer’s demands for high quality print outputs.

Bizhub PRESS C1100 & C1085 also increases efficiency during post-processing, with booklet making, auto ring binding, perfect binding, hole punching, GBC punching, as well as 6 types of folding and stapling.

The bizhub Press have various automation tools to help our customers to be more productive and proactive to keep the machine always available to take more jobs. The machine can be configured with the Konica Minolta CSRC server to send various communication/ alerts on various pre-defined parameters for e.g. Toner alerts etc. The Daily Maintenance Guide program for the operators to help & maintain the machine always in healthy condition.

Salient Features of bizhub PRESS C1085/C1100-:Unparalleled Productivity

The two machines offer the ability to handle varied range of paper types and are capable of stable, high-speed output of thin coated paper flyers to thick paper pop, which were earlier considered as difficult to print.

The paper feeding tool can be expanded to manage 9 different paper types with maximum input paper capability of 13,890 sheets and maximum output capacity of 10,000 sheets. The solutions also enable on the fly operations such as paper replenishment and removal.

High image positioning precision

The highly précised registration unit fusing the existing paper skew detection/auto-correction mechanism with an interim roller nip release mechanism as well as a registration unit skew correction mechanism offers realisation of high front-to-back registration accuracy.

Compatible with numerous industry standards

The two machines support various industry standards as well as high-level colour management. With JDF support, APPE, Pantone, industry-standard Fiery and Creo controller, both C1085 and C1100 represent state-of-the-art models for the printing industry.

The printing solutions are compatible with a host of operating systems including Windows Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / 7 / Server 2008R2 / 8 / Server 2012*1/MacOSX 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7 / 10.8 (PPC/Intel)/Windows Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / 7 / Server 2008R2 / 8 / Server 2012^*1.

bizhub PRESS C1100/C1085 can house paper size of up to a maximum of 330 × 487mm and are capable of handling a maximum printing area of 321 × 480mm. The printers are also capable of A3-size printing with crop marks and A4 size 2-up printing with crop marks.

About Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Pvt. Ltd:

Konica Minolta Business Solutions is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop. Konica Minolta is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. It is also engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale of electronic materials (including TAC films), lighting source panels, functional films (including heat insulation films), and optical products (including lens units). To know more please visit:www.konicaminolta.in

Thank you for choosing Konica Minolta

products.Konica Minolta received a question from few customers on vulnerability concern on MFP and Printer connected to the internet. We would like to inform the way to securely use MFP / Printer in network.

Konica Minolta MFPs should be used within a protected network environment such as Firewall, and also used with the standard security settings. By using these functions, one will not encounter a data breach or unauthorized use.

Konica Minolta has established a system to answer security issues for customers and visit them to ensure that they recognize the importance of security. The most important thing for us is to provide safe and secured products to our customers. We continue to provide up-to-date safety information.

Please re-check your security settings once again to secure your data. If you require any assistance regarding security settings etc. please contact our sales representatives or customer service centre.

Recommended operation:

1. Protect your networks with firewalls in order to block unauthorized access from external networks.

2. Update passwords regularly such as administrator password, user authentication password, and password to access SMB folders.

3. Enable “IP address filtering” setting in Admin mode in order to restrict access from an unspecified location on the capable MFP models.

4. Take other possible operations at customer sites to make secure environments.