Print.IT Reseller - issue 57

01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Cloud-based print services Y Soft Corporation has announced details on YSoft SafeQ 6 use in private and hybrid cloud deployments for Azure and AWS. Additionally, the company formally introduced IOTA Hardware Division as the name of its expanding hardware business. “The effort made in rearchitecting YSoft SafeQ 6 is paying dividends in our ability to satisfy customers’ need to move print services infrastructure to the cloud,” said Wouter Koelewijn, Y Soft Chief Product Officer. “We are able to offer YSoft SafeQ 6 cloud deployment with the same pricing and choice of license or subscription as our current on-premise offering,” he added. www.ysoft.com Cohesity empowers service providers Cohesity has announced significant enhancements to the Cohesity Partner Program that support service providers as a new route-to-market, provide partners with extensive training that is tailored to their specific roles, and provide financial incentives to partners that help large enterprises protect and manage their secondary data and applications. As a 100 % channel-focused company, Cohesity is accelerating opportunities for partners to transform the enterprise data centre by consolidating secondary data and applications on a web-scale platform that seamlessly spans across customers’ premises, within their own data centres, or on leading public clouds – in any and all combinations. The company also announced the Cohesity Powered trust mark, a designation available only to qualified partners who build their businesses on Cohesity’s trusted platform and adhere to strict quality standards. www.cohesity.com Y Soft announces 45% sales growth Sales volume for fiscal year 2018 (July 2017 to June 2018) grew by 45% over fiscal year 2017 to (USD) 45 million including subscriptions, nearly 1 Billion in Czech Crowns, attributed in part to its multi-product platform strategy and SaaS pricing model. Document capture capabilities accounted for 5% of the company's total fiscal year sales volume representing 15% of the total sales volume growth. The company's decision to be the first on the market to offer both software and support services as a subscription also had an impact. Fiscal year 2018 saw an increase of closed subscription sales contract volume of 400% over fiscal year 2017. Sales of YSoft SafeQ 6 overall had an impact as current customers upgraded to the new version and the total number of customers increased to 16,000 from 15,000. www.ysoft.com Zoom and Dropbox announce strategic partnership Zoom Video Communications, Inc. has formed a strategic, multi-phase partnership with collaboration platform Dropbox. The first stage involves the development of integrated workflows between the two solutions as well as a strategic financial investment by Dropbox in Zoom. The workflows will allow joint customers to seamlessly collaborate with the combined power of these solutions, extend Zoom’s functionality, and expose the video communications leader to hundreds of millions of Dropbox users. Subsequent phases of the partnership will involve deeper embedding of Zoom into the core Dropbox product and UI, as well as go-to-market programs. www.zoom.us NHS Trust engages Xerox Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has selected Xerox to digitise over a million paper- based patient records. With medical information directly accessible at the point of care, clinicians can now assess and treat patients more quickly and effectively. The five-year agreement for Xerox’s Health Records Automation (HRA) solution will convert the Trust’s paper-based records into electronic format, making all patient-related information available in the Trust’s electronic patient records system. This will enable better visibility into patient care history and improve patient safety. The Trust has had an electronic health records system for several years but clinical staff still regularly need access to old paper records. www.xerox.com Lyreco reveals new look Lyreco has unveiled a bold new look to reflect its commitment to its customers, employees and sustainability. The international workplace solutions company which employs 9,000 people across the world has revamped its logo and corporate branding to highlight the core principles behind the business. It has also adopted a new corporate strapline – Working Together for Tomorrow – to underline its mission to be environmentally sustainable. www.lyreco.com Perfect printing solution ThinPrint Cloud Services, a subsidiary of the endpoint print management expert ThinPrint, has released the newest version of ezeep, the leading printing solution for co-working spaces and universities. RFID-based printing is now fully integrated into ezeep, making it the ideal solution in markets where users share multiple printers. In addition to this highly user-friendly set up, the new updates eliminate the need for IT administrators to spend time on printer assignments or printer driver management . www.thinprintcloud.com Name change for Print Audit Europe Print Audit Europe will now be known as PAE Business. PAE will continue as part of the PA Group of companies which has been supporting the MPS channel in the EMEA region since 2000. The re-brand reflects the developing market of managed print services which is expanding beyond the printed page and into more areas of the business. The company’s capabilities have expanded support to data analytics, workflow, change management, new models of billing and data integration and will continue to expand in response to the digital workplace. www.paebusiness.com