FEATURE: DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
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facilitate document imaging and document
scanning to a wide range.
Then we have the SP series of scanners
which we launched about two years ago
as an entry level product for document
scanning. SP sits in between personal
productivity and professional – where people
are maybe dipping their toe into document
management or the volumes are a little bit
less and don’t require a heavy-duty machine.
We have a lot of people that buy our
professional. FI series of scanners. These
are the real professional document
scanners where scanning is a must. They
have high volumes.
For CIOs who are intending
to improve the document
management what advice
would you give to them?
paper always remains a factor in their
business. So what we’ve tried to make sure is
that whatever point of entry a document has
we have a solution there ready to capture
that piece of paper and basically transform
it because a sheet of A4 with printed text
means nothing to anybody until you read it.
So what we do is we enable that
transformation from hard copy to digital
as quickly and as easily as possible so that
basically people can then convert that into
usable information.
Can you mention a few of
your products?
We’ve basically got three product lines.
We’ve got ScanSnap which is a personal
productivity tool. So this is a product for the
people that don’t have to scan as part of
their daily work routines. So it could be a
person taking notes. You can either keep it
as a hard copy or you can decide to scan it.
It’s not that you have to do it but it would
be nice to do. So that’s what we specifically
designed ScanSnap for as a product to
WE DO WORK VERY HARD WITH
OUR CUSTOMERS TO TRY TO
MINIMISE PAPER FLOW WITHIN THEIR
ORGANISATIONS, YOU SEE NO MATTER
HOW HARD THEY TRY RE-ENGINEER
BUSINESS PROCESSES, PAPER ALWAYS
REMAINS A FACTOR IN THEIR BUSINESS.
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Now with the ever-changing technology
you can prepare a strategy as best as you
possibly can and what you see is from within
six months to 12 months whatever you put
down as a plan you’re having to change. You
can’t always predict what you’re going to
be needing in the future. One thing you do
know is that you’re going to need to scan
paper because it’s going to be available in
your organisation.
That’s what we design specific products for.
The fi-7300NX is to made to be futureproof.
The hardware is an important component
looking at how things could be managed
more centrally with a software application so
that’s why we’ve developed a server-based
application, completely web-enabled so no
matter what a CIO is planning to do with
whatever line of business application he has,
he knows that whatever he’s purchasing
from Fujitsu he’ll be able to adapt that to
different business processes, to a different
line of business applications that they will be
using or modifying or whatever.
So I think now where people need to really
think is just to make sure that the flexibility
is always there. Because it is an investment
and you don’t want to invest in technology
that’s going to be obsolete in six months
time. So you need to be able to purchase
products that are flexible that you can use in
the future without knowing really what the
future is going to hold. n
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