Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. has received three Buyers Laboratory (BLI) 2016 Picks for its bizhub series and its state-of-the-art bizhub MarketPlace. Presented twice a year, Pick Awards acknowledge the comprehensive offerings that measure up as the best in BLI’s rigorous and comprehensive lab testing, which assess a wide range of factors most important to buyers. BLI is an independent company that evaluates office document equipment and solution products. “We’re delighted to be honoured with the Winter Picks Awards from BLI and are thrilled at the industry recognition of our efforts to deliver outstanding solutions for customers,” said Kevin Kern, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions, U.S.A., Inc. “Receiving this award validates the high level of quality and well-executed, innovative work of our design team.”
Konica Minolta’s bizhub Marketplace Chameleon won for Outstanding Achievement in Innovation. Chameleon (available as part of the bizhub MarketPlace MFP app store) provides customers with a simple, centralized way to personalize their MFP’s User Interfaces (UIs), as well as install and manage their bizhub MarketPlace apps and customized UIs. An easy-to-use MFP control-panel customization tool enables users to build and share custom UIs that can be designed to reduce the amount of time spent at an MFP, and best reflect and conform to the company’s corporate standards. Features include:
- Intuitive MFP User Interface customization via a graphical, drag-and-drop, web-based tool.
- MFP can be customized to fit customers’ organizational branding standards and business needs.
- Administrators control what functions (scanning, copying, faxing, etc.) employees can access while at the MFP.
- Efficient and centralized installation and management of bizhub MarketPlace apps and custom UIs.
- Custom User Interfaces can run by default when the MFP is first powered on.
Bizhub MarketPlace Chameleon also provides a reseller with the opportunity to offer custom UIs to meet diverse customer needs as well as concrete benefits for their customers. “With bizhub MarketPlace Chameleon, organizations can leverage the UI customization, user restrictions, and enterprise management tools needed to create an efficient and productive shared printing environment,” said Jamie Bsales, Director of Office Workflow Solutions Analysis at BLI. “Resellers, administrators and even end users can create custom screens for commonly used operations, allowing an employee to go right to the operation they need to accomplish, which should drastically reduce the time that knowledge workers spend at the MFP.”
