News Article Business Solutions

Langenhagen, July 09 2007

Konica Minolta announces a newcomer to its application portfolio with the launch of Open Bee Scan Viewer, a capturing and archiving software package, aimed at enhancing entry-level archiving for small and medium businesses. Designed exclusively for Konica Minolta, the new software is fast, convenient and overcomes digital document management issues such as capturing, indexing, archiving and retrieval of information, typically faced by SMEs. This is the first software of its kind designed with this market in mind.

 

The Open Bee Scan Viewer software is an easy to use and affordable solution for businesses in need of electronic archiving and document storage with a logical central filing system. Designed for document-intensive environments such as manufacturing, logistics, legal, healthcare and government sectors, the Open Bee Scan Viewer helps to improve overall productivity and increase employee efficiency.

 

The software works very simply by indexing documents within customisable templates after the hard copies have been scanned on a bizhub multi-functional peripheral (MFP). The documents are then automatically archived and structured by keywords or other recognisable variables such as a customer code, name or other ID tags using the embedded Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine within its interface.

 

When the documents need to be retrieved the Open Bee application provides multi-user, web-based document searches (by keywords or full-text), allowing unlimited users to access the information required.

 

In instances where restricted access is required, the administrator can limit users’ rights to certain literature therefore heightening security within the system.

 

Olaf Lorenz, General Manager, Product Marketing Division for Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe says, “It is great to be able to offer our small and medium sized customers a fast and cost effective solution for use with all of their printing and scanning devices. The key to this software is to enable an easy method of search and retrieval for multiple users, making day to day business easier.”

 

The Open Bee Scan Viewer supports PDF and TIFF formats for all types of documents and is compatible with all of Konica Minolta’s bizhub MFP range and other scanning devices that create PDF files.

 

About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH is a leading provider of image information products with subsidiaries and distributors in more than 50 countries in the EMEA region. The company places major emphasis on the document management and solution business in the office and production environment, especially in the field of colour output as well as related supplies. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is a subsidiary of Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. With a total workforce of 19,800 employees worldwide, Konica Minolta Business Technologies gained a net sales of over 4.41 billion Euros in fiscal 2006/2007. Building on its strong core of optical technologies developed over many years as a printer and camera manufacturer, Konica Minolta Business Technologies aims to be a corporation offering products and services that are essential to all areas of digital imaging.

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Contact:

 

Carlos Baart

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe

Phone: +49 (0)511-7404-324

carlos.baart(at)konicaminolta.eu

 

Konica Minolta team

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