Managed.IT - issue 53

20 MANAGED.IT 01732 759725 SCANNERS NEW Alaris E1025 & E1035 Scanner l The E1035 scanner is a compact, quiet desktop model that fits perfectly into small office environments, reception areas, and home offices. l Make images even better than originals with built-in perfect page technology for superior quality and OCR readability. l Alaris Smart Touch Technology allows you to scan into different locations like common cloud services, Dropbox, email or other systems with the push of one button. [email protected] 0800 069 6604 scanning workload from 16 hours to just eight. Lofstrom adds that Alaris is also planning to make more use of its multi-vendor, global service capability. “As we go more into solutions and professional services, we are looking at opportunities to leverage that competency in complementary areas. In Europe, for example, the team has been looking at body image scanning systems and the service around that. It’s a wholly different form of imaging technology but something that is becoming more and more popular for people whether they are in weight loss programmes or are looking for customised garments. Those types of systems are becoming more common and need service partners,” he said. More long-term, Lofstrom is exploring the possibility of taking some of the company’s historical competencies in image science and mechanical systems and applying them to entirely new markets, such as manufacturing quality control systems where a high degree of precision is required. in existing and completely new areas. The former includes Managed Content Services, which gives customers greater visibility and control over their entire capture infrastructure and business-critical processes. In many organisations, these are still unmanaged and fragmented, which adds costs to a business and embeds inefficiency and waste. By helping a channel partner audit and optimise the centralised and distributed scanning equipment and processes at the UK operations of an international bank, Alaris experts were able to reduce the number of workflows in its central processing unit by over 90% and half the time needed to complete the daily “It could even be applied in things like 3D printing, where you may be able to do feedback at point of creation. Today, with many 3D printing applications, you go through the production process and don’t know you have issues until it is done. That can result in a lot of time and material waste. If we can provide a feedback loop of whether it is conforming or not, there could be big benefits.” In the meantime, Alaris is continuing to invest in its channel partners as it seeks to penetrate the scanner and workflow markets more deeply and gain share, particularly in distributed capture. “We are very much a partner- centric company,” said Lofstrom. “We already have the broadest product range in the industry and with the assistance of our partners we can provide more value in terms of vertical solutions, for solving customer problems in ways that are relevant to them. We provide some of the ingredients with our hardware, software and services and look to our partners to provide the totality of the solution.” ...continued