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Kyocera launches
HyPAS apps
Kyocera’s latest HyPAS apps – Login
Manager, PinPoint Scan and Print &
Follow – are designed and priced to meet
the secure printing and scanning needs
of UK SMEs.
Assistant Product Marketing Manager
Sarah White said: “These new HyPAS apps
offer real enhancements to SOHO and SME
businesses by improving the way in which
everyone in the company, however small, uses
and shares their documents.
“Each app has been designed with SMEs
in mind so affordability and accessibility were
key factors taken into consideration. Login
Manager offers serverless user authentication
while PinPoint Scan and Print & Follow securely
enhance scan and print personalisation from
HyPAS-enabled KYOCERA MFPs over a network.”
Brother makes top 100
Brother UK has been named as one
of the UK’s 100 best small companies
to work for. The survey of employees,
undertaken by
The Sunday Times
and Best Companies, resulted in high
scores for Brother’s commitment to
staff wellbeing, personal growth, pay
and benefits, leadership and corporate
responsibility.
Managing Director Phil Jones said: “We’re
thrilled with this result. Recruiting, retaining
and maintaining a motivated workforce in
disruptive times is key and an award such
as this puts us right up there with the best
companies in the country and our industry.”
Logistics at all time high
Vasanta’s logistics operation, which was recently shortlisted in the Logistics
and Distribution category at the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards, has
implemented a series of innovations and improvements to ensure more advanced
delivery processes and further reductions in damage to stock. These include the
introduction of pallet collars to orders trunked to its regional cross dock sites;
investment in heat wrapping technology; an improved order picking process; and a
reorganisation of cross-dock operations.
Logistics Director John Burkill said: “Constant innovation has led us into 2014 with a £40 million
plus stock holding across 16,000 SKUs available for next day delivery; a 97% plus fill rate across
these SKUs; and an industry leading forecast and MRP Supply Chain Management system.”
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NAPPS UPDATE
2014’s biggest headache –
security
By Aaron Warham,
Director,
NAPPS
How do you make your
customers feel secure?
The start of any new year
is the traditional time for
commentators and analysts
alike to make predictions on how they see the market
developing over the next 12 months – and the world
of document solutions and Managed Document
Services (MDS) is no different.
Looking across the opinion formers from global
OEMs, to major software developers and channel
resellers, the key developments in 2014 will be in
BYOD, mobile printing, the cloud and the leveraging
of Big Data. Which means the real game changer for
2014 will be security, with an extremely tight focus
on the security of your customers’ data.
Committing processes and therefore sensitive
information to the cloud, or opening up secure
networks to external devices carries a massive risk to
all parties involved and the security of the transmitted
data becomes as important as the process itself.
Our industry has been learning the initial lessons
of security through the transmission of customer
details for the billing and delivery portions of MPS
programs over the past 10 years, but the technological
leap required for this next stage of development will
push all involved to the next level of security.
With technological security becoming such a
major issue for 2014 and beyond, the channel would
also be advised to consider the human elements of
security. Or to put it another way, how do you make
your customers feel secure?
This level of security comes before the firewall
protocols and system overrides required for a
truly secure ICT system. Making your customers
feel secure starts at the very beginning of your
client relationship, when your role is not that of a
salesperson but that of a trusted consultant.
Which is why securing your customer base is the
most important development for 2014, as without it,
implementing new technologies which pose genuine
security issues to sensitive information will be almost
impossible.
Britain’s friendliest
business
Commercial Group has made the finals of
a national competition to find Britain’s
friendliest business.
The Cheltenham-based office supplies
dealership beat stiff competition to become one
of 20 finalists in the award sponsored by Liberis,
one of the UK’s largest providers of small and
medium sized business funding.
The winner will be crowned ‘Britain’s
Friendliest Business’ and receive a cash prize of
£10,000.
Spicers officially
launch Office Pie
Spicers has announced the release of
its new e-commerce solution, Office
Pie. After 12 months of development
and six months of intensive testing, the
wholesaler says that Office Pie is set to
replace the current OSCARnet solution
and raise the e-commerce bar within the
Office Supplies industry.
The functionally rich platform is built upon
the powerful and very credible Netalogue
software with a number of significant changes
to ensure it delivers the best technology and
platform intelligence within the market.
