01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Kyocera partners with PrintReleaf Kyocera has partnered with PrintReleaf, a move that will enable its customers to contribute to a reforestation project in Ireland that plants an equivalent volume of trees correlating to the paper usage in Kyocera’s devices. In addition to collecting monthly data on customer print usage, Kyocera will automatically and certifiably plant trees in Ireland based on total paper consumption. Reforesting is done by PrintReleaf at a rate of 8,333 sheets per standard tree, as detailed in the PrintReleaf Standard, and 100% net survivability of the trees is guaranteed. kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk Thales accelerates cybersecurity development Continuing its cybersecurity expansion strategy, Thales has announced the signature of an agreement to acquire OneWelcome, a European leader in the fast growing market of customer identity and access management, for a total consideration of €100 million. OneWelcome’s strong digital identity lifecycle management capabilities will complement Thales’s existing identity services. Headquartered in the Netherlands, OneWelcome provides cloud-based customer identity and access management for highly regulated industries, empowering them to securely connect customers as well as business partners to their online services. With 100+ employees and customers across Europe, the company is experiencing strong growth of over 30% year-on-year. Philippe Vallée, Executive Vice-President, Digital Identity and Security at Thales said: “The acquisition of OneWelcome is fully aligned with our expansion strategy within the cybersecurity space. OneWelcome’s talents and expertise in customer identity and access management complements and strengthens our authentication and data privacy portfolio as well as our plan to provide a trusted and frictionless digital experience. Nowadays, as we see a rapid increase in amount of data, cloud migrations, and new compliance mandates, it’s essential to offer secure, adaptive and convenient solutions that help our customers in both private and public sector to classify, protect, and control the access to their sensitive data regardless of where it resides.” www.thalesgroup.com Xerox acquires Go Inspire Xerox has acquired print and digital marketing and communication services provider Go Inspire, to grow its global digital services presence. Go Inspire serves customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). “We’re focused on widening the scope of Xerox’s digital services and customer engagement services,” said Darren Cassidy, UK & Ireland Managing Director and Senior Vice President, EMEA Global Document Services at Xerox. “Go Inspire’s capabilities will support the transformation of our transactional and direct mail services into multi-channel communications, accelerate growth in EMEA and create new avenues for us to help current and new clients.” Patrick Headley, Chief Executive Officer at Go Inspire, added: “We are thrilled to join the Xerox team and eager to contribute to the growth of Xerox Digital Services. Together with Xerox, we will expand the portfolio of high value services for our expanding client base throughout the UK and beyond.” www.xerox.com Platinum status Ringdale, the provider of FollowMe, has been awarded Platinum Solution status by Keypoint Intelligence. Experienced analysts at Keypoint Intelligence put FollowMe through an extensive evaluation process before awarding it their coveted Platinum Solution status. In achieving this status, Keypoint Intelligence recognises how the FollowMe enterprise print management portfolio is hitting the mark for both technical and business requirements for the modern workplace. “The FollowMe solution portfolio is an outstanding print management and data loss prevention platform available for all the leading OEM brands,” said Keypoint Intelligence’s Jamie Bsales, Principal Analyst, Smart Workplace & Security. “For enterprise and public sector customers looking to address document security and compliance challenges Ringdale’s FollowMe Enterprise Print Management is an excellent choice.” Eric Crump, Director of Strategic Alliances, Ringdale added: “Our teams continuously focus on bringing new innovations with the nextgeneration printing platform, designed for the modern workplace. We are proud this work has been recognised by Keypoint Intelligence with the Platinum Solution status again this year. This independent perspective helps ensure we are delivering the best for enterprise customers and partners compared to the evolving market.” www.followme.ringdale.com Outstanding achievement Following comprehensive testing by Keypoint Intelligence independent labs, MPS Monitor DCA 4 has been honoured with a Buyers Lab (BLI) Outstanding Achievement Award. Keypoint Intelligence’s analysts and lab technicians conducted extensive testing and research activity. This included both hands-on lab tests and a review of third-party security testing that MPS Monitor had performed with the help of specialised security firms before and after DCA 4’s initial release. The result of the analysis proves the quality, security and richness of features within DCA 4, and highlights the improvements that MPS Monitor has implemented in its DCA core technology, making it “a leading-edge data collection agent that is equipped to deal with the worst security threats and to provide efficient, simple and versatile data collection”. Nicola De Blasi, CEO of MPS Monitor, said: “Over the last 12 years, MPS Monitor’s DCA has been installed in more than half a million customer networks, and is currently used by thousands of dealers to manage more than 1.2 million printing devices across 60 countries. We are thrilled to see DCA 4 perform so strongly and in line with expectations during the tests.” www.mpsmonitor.com Nicola De Blasi Eric Crump
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