RAMSEY, NJ--(Marketwired - January 16, 2017) - Konica Minolta, Inc. today announces that Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) and Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH are launching a new and enhanced version of the bizhub MarketPlace platform to accommodate the global market, including the United States, Canada and Europe with over 35 countries now supported. By offering a variety of productivity apps for use on the multifunction printer (MFP), the bizhub MarketPlace allows the MFP's functionalities to be easily and quickly enhanced to meet the challenges of everyday businesses.
Running on the leading hosting infrastructure in the world today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, the bizhub MarketPlace is built to power online storefronts in the global market. Each country can now take advantage of all the benefits the bizhub MarketPlace has to offer, with stores that have been customized to suit their specific market needs.
Quick access and easy set-up
The ability to connect to services such as OneDrive, Google Drive and Email or Microsoft SharePoint provides quick access to documents with the benefit of secure processes and state-of-the-art technology. In addition, the bizhub MarketPlace offers apps that fall into a range of categories, including:
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Communication apps such as Announcement, which displays informational adshttps://finance.yahoo.com/images on the MFP control panel.
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Printing apps such as Paper Templates, which allows MFP users to access and quickly print forms, certificates, sheet paper, and other commonly used documents.
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Social apps such as RSS Feeds, which displays specific feeds from organizations that are related to a specific industry, weblogs, subscribed online published content, and other sources for late-breaking news.
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Scan apps, which allows users to access, upload, and print files from popular cloud storage providers including Box, OneDrive, Konica Minolta's FileAssist, and many more.
The full range of apps can be found at the bizhub MarketPlace's Market page: https://bizhubmarketplace.us/market.php#tag=Cloud
Ensuring maximum productivity, set up of the bizhub MarketPlace can be performed remotely. In addition, MFPs can be centrally managed via the bizhub MarketPlace website, making it simple to install and update apps, with minimal efforts required.
Customized MFP
The bizhub MarketPlace also offers customers the ability to create and install customized MFP user interfaces that have unique designs and features to meet individual needs while still fitting within a company's workflows and corporate design guidelines. In addition to having customers design and create their own customizations, Konica Minolta also provides professional services for the design and creation of these custom user interfaces. Similar to additional apps or updates, custom user interfaces can be deployed remotely, which benefits major enterprises with many employees.