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odak Alaris is passionate
about using technology
to make life simpler. With
today’s information overload
placing a heavy burden on CIOs
help is at hand. With the right
hardware, software and services at
your disposal you can reduce the
complexity of big data and give
your company a competitive edge.
Can you give us a brief about
Kodak Alaris?
Kodak Alaris was created on
September 3, 2013, after spinning
off from the Eastman Kodak
Company. We are passionate
about using technology to
transform organisations and
improve peoples lives across
the planet. From our document
scanners and intelligent state-of-
the-art software and services that
power some of the world›s largest
companies, to our photographic
paper production, printing kiosks
and suite of consumer apps,
we›re on a mission to unlock the
power of images and information
for the world. We push the
boundaries of technology and
help our customers make sense of
and exploit the ever-expanding
volume of data that is the
hallmark of the 21st century. The
Information Management division
of Kodak Alaris was set up to help
organisations deliver the right
information to the right people at
the right time and across the right
channels, with an essential role for
intelligent document recognition,
business processes automation
and intelligent information
management overall.
How is Kodak Alaris relevant
in this age of digital
transformation?
Digital transformation is an
ongoing and accelerating
wave. Early 2016, Kodak Alaris
Information Management, a
www.intelligentcio.com
global provider of information
management solutions, started
a brand repositioning project.
The overarching theme revolves
around the challenges that all
businesses face with digital
transformation. Dealing with
digital information can be
complex and chaotic, leading
to a loss of productivity and
efficiency. From the preparation
of documents, to the capture
of information from paper,
to the routing of data into a
business process, to finally
collecting and dealing with the
hard copy documents after
scanning. Not to mention the
various places that data can
be inputted from or outputted
to, such as mobile, cloud, ECM
systems, and other repositories
as part of the process. This is
where Kodak Alaris Information
Management (KA-IM) is now
playing a leading role: in the
digital transformation of its
worldwide customer base.
It does so by providing the
hardware, software, and services
to reduce the cost and effort
needed to rein in the complexity
of information management,
thereby transforming data into
a real competitive advantage.
How is the Kodak Alaris brand
leveraging the opportunity
that big data presents?
The ever-increasing flood of
data, and how we manage
it, is one of the greatest
opportunities facing businesses
and governments in the 21st
century. The challenge with big
data, other than the obvious
fact that it is big, is that so
much of it is unstructured.
Today, at least 90% of business
data – approximately 35
Zettabytes – is unstructured. By
2020, we will be able to fill eight
trillion DVDs with new data
each year. The struggle among
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