Konica Minolta’s bizhub MarketPlace goes global

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. and Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe are launching a new and enhanced version of the bizhub MarketPlace platform to accommodate the global market – including Canada, the U.S. and Europe – with over 35 countries now supported. By offering a variety of productivity apps for use on the multifunction printer (MFP), the bizhub MarketPlace allows the MFP’s functionalities to be easily and quickly enhanced to meet the challenges of everyday businesses. Running on the leading hosting infrastructure in the world today – Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud – the bizhub MarketPlace is built to power online storefronts in the global market.
Each country can now take advantage of the benefits of the bizhub MarketPlace, with stores that have been customized to suit their specific market needs. The Bizhub Marketplace Chameleon MFP Panel Customization Tool is just one of the many tools available. The ability to connect to services such as OneDrive, Google Drive and Email or Microsoft SharePoint provides quick access to documents with the benefit of secure processes and state-of-the-art technology. In addition, the bizhub MarketPlace offers apps that fall into a range of categories, including:

• Communication apps such as Announcement, which displays informational ads/images on the MFP control panel.
• Printing apps such as Paper Templates, which allow MFP users to access and quickly print forms, certificates, sheet paper, and other commonly used documents.
• Social apps such as RSS Feeds, which displays specific feeds from organizations that are related to a specific industry, weblogs, subscribed online published content, and other sources for late-breaking news.
• Scan apps, which allow users to access, upload and print files from popular cloud storage providers including Box, OneDrive, Konica Minolta’s FileAssist, and more.

The full range of apps can be found at the bizhub MarketPlace’s Market page.
Set up of the bizhub MarketPlace can be performed remotely. In addition, MFPs can be centrally managed via the bizhub MarketPlace website, making it simple to install and update apps, with minimal effort required. The bizhub MarketPlace also offers the ability to create and install customized MFP user interfaces that have unique designs and features to meet individual needs – while still fitting within a company’s workflows and corporate design guidelines. Konica Minolta also provides professional services for the design and creation of these custom user interfaces. Similar to additional apps or updates, custom user interfaces can be deployed remotely, which benefits major enterprises with many employees.
The bizhub MarketPlace offers benefits for businesses of all sizes by adapting the MFP to the customer’s working behaviours instead of the other way around, said Konica Minolta. The wide array of apps available makes it simple to streamline workflow and improve efficiencies while saving time and costs.