Konica Minolta Australia has entered into a new partnership agreement with FileBound, one of Australia’s leading providers of document management solutions. The partnership is in line with Konica Minolta’s core strategy to boost its integrated software services, combining print management and document workflow software solutions.

Chris Goult, Head of Product Marketing at Konica Minolta Australia, said: “Konica Minolta’s partnership with FileBound is an important step in providing our customers with sophisticated integrated business solutions and helping them optimize their MFD usage.  Content management and workflow software solutions are the future of business because they maximise productivity and efficiency.”

“Working together, Konica Minolta and FileBound will allow customers to file, store, share, retrieve, secure, archive and audit all critical documents.  Automating and streamlining essential processes is not reserved for large corporations - it is becoming the norm for businesses of all sizes.”

FileBound offers document management solutions for the  Microsoft platform that can be installed into any IT system via a simple hardware appliance, via the local server or from the Cloud.

FileBound can automate a number of manual processes throughout the business cycle– from accounts payable to manufacturing and delivery. 

According to Mr Goult, smaller to medium sized businesses have historically invested more in hardware than in solutions for workflow, considering it an area for large IT departments and not necessarily being aware of the relevance to their business. However, SMEs are quickly becoming more aware of the full range of benefits and cost savings that can be delivered with a cost effective document management solution like FileBound, and what that can bring to their business.

“In the long term companies benefit most from employing MFDs to automate the capture of information, and then integrating the capture of this information with better electronic content management across the company.  Electronic content management and optimised document management is the way of the future for business. We are pleased to be working alongside FileBound, who have an outstanding reputation, to offer the best to our customers,” concluded Mr Goult.