01732 759725 12 BULLETIN ECS introduces new products ECS has announced new remanufactured Konica Minolta DR512 drum units. The drum units are available in black and colour and are suitable for use with Konica Minolta Bizhub C224, C224e, C284, C284e, C364, C364e, C454, C454e, C554, C554e and equivalent Olivetti/Develop machines. The firm also has stock available for remanufactured Konica Minolta DR512 drum chips, available in black and colour, for use with Konica Minolta Bizhub C224, C284, C364, C454, C554 and equivalent Olivetti/Develop machines as well as compatible Konica Minolta DV512 developer packs, available in black, cyan, magenta and yellow, for use with Konica Minolta Bizhub C224, C284, C364, C454, C554 and equivalent Olivetti/Develop devices. www.ecs-uk-ltd.co.uk M-Files exceeds 30% growth M-Files has grown its annual recurring revenue in 2021 by more than 30%. Advancements in customer success programs helped boost customer satisfaction and raise net revenue retention to over 120% in 2021. The company also increased bookings in the professional services industry by 41%. “Our accelerated growth in 2021 is proof that more organisations are readily embracing our unique, metadata-driven approach to information management to gain a leading edge in their digital transformation journeys,” said Antti Nivala, Founder and CEO, M-Files. “We increased our employee headcount by a recordbreaking 20% in 2021, enabling us to serve knowledge workers’ needs better and provide innovative platform enhancements that deliver superior customer experiences and higher quality work with lower risk.” M-Files also grew its partner program, achieving over 30% year-over-year growth in global channel sales ARR bookings. As partners heightened their proficiencies with the M-Files platform, the average partner-led new deal size increased by nearly 20%, and cloud deployments grew five times faster than on-premises deployments. www.m-files.com Xerox’s PARC announces new venture PARC, a Xerox company, has announced the launch of Novity, a new venture to commercialise predictive maintenance (PdM) technology that reduces unplanned downtime in industrial manufacturing operations. The Novity solution is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology that uses equipment sensors and proprietary algorithms to enable industrial manufacturers to see the future health of their production assets. The Novity TruPrognostics engine relies on a combination of machine learning and physics-based models of equipment. This allows Novity to predict equipment failures with 90% or better accuracy and lead times of months, not weeks or days. www.xerox.com Clover opens UK distribution centre Clover has committed to support its dealers by opening a UK distribution centre. This investment into the dealer channel harnesses Clover’s commitment to provide a remanufactured range of toner cartridges within a logistics framework that meets the needs of its customers. The new UK distribution centre will stock one of Clover’s main European brands – the Freecolorbrand which has been in existence for over 20 years. www.cloverimaging.eu Sustainable IT procurement Circular Computing is helping WWF-UK transition to a sustainable enterprise laptop estate in a bid to continue its carbon neutral trajectory. The company will supply 510 remanufactured laptops to the charity. After successfully trialling 50 remanufactured devices, WWF-UK plans to embed sustainability across its procurement processes and find suppliers that match its values to drive change across all areas of operations. This change was spearheaded by the charity’s Environmental Manager and backed by its ICT team, which recognises the value that sustainable computing equipment can play in advancing the broader climate change agenda. Additionally, as part of the project, Circular Computing has bought back nearly 500 laptops fromWWF-UK’s estate and will look to put them through its recently launched ITAD programme, to give them a second lease of life through remanufacturing. This signifies a truly circular deal and will equal five additional trees being planted for each laptop in the buyback scheme. www.circularcomputing.com IDC recognises Konica Minolta Konica Minolta was recently named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Print in the Distributed Workforce 2022 Vendor Assessment. According to the report, “Konica Minolta’s approach to providing for a more distributed workforce begins with a mind-set that “work is not where you are, but work is what you get done.” Olaf Lorenz, Head of International Marketing Division, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe said: “Key to Konica Minolta’s success is our ability to help businesses succeed with digital transformation to meet the challenges of the pandemic and beyond. Konica Minolta’s foresight pre-empted the transformations in the world of work that have subsequently been accelerated by COVID-19. The company has been transforming its business for some time from a print/copy provider to a digital services supplier. Its vision of the intelligent connected workplace (ICW) was in place long before the onset of the pandemic and provides an array of documentrelated services (workflow and automation, information management, managed application, infrastructure management, security, and cloud, with more to come) that naturally extend into supporting a more distributed workforce.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk
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