Konica Minolta is proud to announce that Quocirca has recognised the company as a 'Major Player’, in the research firm’s ‘The Cloud Print Services Landscape, 2023 - How the cloud is driving print infrastructure modernisation’.
The global market insight and research firm specialising in the convergence of print and digital technologies in the future workplace acknowledges how, ‘Cloud print services are an integral part of Konica Minolta’s offering, and it has developed a flexible and scalable service portfolio within its core print business, designed to support clients’ migration from on-premise to SaaS and cloud platforms.’
Quocirca’s vendor landscape for the Cloud Print Services market includes the major managed print services (MPS) providers offering cloud-based services. To be included the vendor must have a mature MPS offering that it has extended to the cloud environment. In positioning Konica Minolta as a ‘Major Player’, Quocirca acknowledges the company as having established and proven offerings supported by demonstrable customer success.
Research published in the report highlights the strong adoption of cloud service, with 79% of organisations operating some or all of their IT infrastructure in the cloud. In terms of managing print, over half of the respondents expect to be fully or mostly cloud-based in the next two years. However, many organisations are taking a hybrid approach with 48% reporting an increase in the number of print servers deployed in the past year. Quocirca attributes the need to support a more distributed workforce as the reason for the rise.
The new report highlights Konica Minolta’s
Workplace Pure as a key strength. This platform provides organisations with cost-effective 24/7 access to a marketplace of constantly evolving services including centralised upload to cloud repositories, cloud print, secure guest print, smart document conversion and translation - all automated and streamlined from a single trusted source.
Quocirca says of Workplace Pure, ‘The delivery of a range of cloud services such as conversion, translate, and cloud fax through one platform, as well as ease of connection to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, is a key differentiator. Uniquely, Workplace Pure is managed by Konica Minolta as the provider (with no intermediate platform), and requires no additional software installations.’
Also referenced is Dispatcher Paragon Cloud, which was launched in February 2022, which enables Konica Minolta to offer the options of on-premise or pure cloud model, for organisations looking to move their print management to the cloud.
Despite the clear trend towards cloud print management, the Quocirca report highlights security concerns as the main barrier to the adoption. With the launch of
Shield Guard last year, Konica Minolta has worked to allay these concerns with a cloud-based solution that provides remote security monitoring and management for devices and fleets.
