01732 759725 40 ACQUISITIONS continued... Y Soft will continue to support EveryonePrint’s products on a global basis. We’re going to be adding more functionalities to the product, and we will maintain a flexible licencing model model, about marketing. It’s about goto-market. It’s about value proposition. You need to transform support, you need to transform literally everything. And for a company that has 20 years of legacy building an on-premise solution, it is much easier to build these things from scratch. I see that today, but I didn’t see that back in 2019.” In order to transform the entire company, Muchna realised he had to achieve what he describes as critical mass. “Building up that critical mass takes time,” he said, adding: “But by acquiring EveryonePrint, we have achieved what I consider critical mass in terms of mindset change – by that I mean a 60-strong team of people with a 100 per cent cloud focus and mindset. We are now aligned on the same vision, so this makes the path to more innovations an exciting journey. We welcome our new EveryonePrint team members as YSofters and are now united as one company focused on solutions that prove the road to digital transformation and cloud printing is paved with benefits and opportunities.” Continued support Y Soft will continue to sell, service, and support both EveryonePrint’s Hybrid Cloud Platform and YSoft’s SAFEQ cloud product family. “We are thrilled to be adding EveryonePrint’s technology to our roadmap. Y Soft will continue to support EveryonePrint’s products on a global basis. We’re going to be adding more functionalities to the product, and we will maintain a flexible licencing model. Our customers can be assured that our partners, all of which makes for a smooth transition,” he added. Cloud-first strategy Muchna explained that when Y Soft established its cloud-first strategy, the intention was not to simply ‘lift and shift’ its existing on-premise solution to the public data centre. “Our cloud-first strategy means we really see the future in the cloud and the plan was to develop a solution that is truly natively cloud, but also has the same rich feature set as our on-premise offering. “I’ll admit when we set out this strategy, I thought it would take one to two years, but I underestimated that. To a large extent, given my software development background, I looked at it from more of a product standpoint. But cloud is not only about the product, it’s about transforming the entire company, how people think, it’s about the business our commitment to support any future features/releases will be fully unified and embraced by Y Soft,” Muchna said. Within the next few months, Y Soft plans to integrate EveryonePrint into its own organisation. The technological synergies between both companies will ensure that customers from both companies will benefit from new and exciting cloud innovations that can be delivered even faster, more seamlessly and efficiently, taking advantage of each company’s strengths. “We are integrating our sales and support teams and we will continue to support the existing HCP customer base. Looking to the future, we want to keep a simple entry-level product that is a good fit for a certain type of market – it is possible we may keep the two different brands, but we haven’t decided that yet,” he explained. Muchna doesn’t rule out keeping some element of its on-premise solutions. “We’re taking the approach that anything we develop for the cloud will be available to customers preferring an on-premise infrastructure. That’s why we’re a cloud-first rather than cloud-only company,” he concluded. www.ysoft.com Extended RFID and contact reader range Y Soft has extended its RFID and contact reader range with the release of its entry-level YSoft MFX Lite reader. The YSoft MFX Lite reader is an ideal solution for secure identification and verification designed to suit more budget-conscious reader deployment use cases where chip technology is not a requirement, making cuttingedge reader technology affordable to all. The reader also confirms Y Soft’s commitment to sustainability by significantly reducing the power consumption of the reader, making it up to 36 per cent more energy-efficient than most other readers. Plug-and-play by nature, it is up and running in just a matter of seconds. The MFX Lite comes with a productlifetime warranty and numerous unique technologies help prevent the occurrence of any read errors. Based on Y Soft’s hardware performance assurance, which equates to over 2.5 million hours of mean time between failures (MTBF) testing, the company claims the reader has been tested five times more robustly than the closest competitors’ technology. The MFX Lite can authenticate across many scenarios and provides a robust hygienic solution that eliminates the need for staff to touch any surfaces to identify themselves. Plus, with follow-the-sun global support and the product-lifetime warranty, in the unlikely event that the device encounters a problem, there is someone standing by in the user’s time zone to help solve it.
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