Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia has announced a dedicated cloud platform for small business and Enterprise ECM, known as the WeOptimise Cloud.

WeOptimise is an off-premise private cloud providing hosted Software-as-a-Service solutions. The first to be offered is an Enterprise Content Management Service, able to be customised with the support of Konica Minolta’s consulting services.

The WeOptimise Data Centre is hosted in Australia to deal with data sovereignty and security concerns.

“Our new solution meets growing end-user demand to improve document workflow solutions and buy software as a service. It also positions us for greater influence in the way our customers consume, manage and pay for IT services,” said Mike Dooner, Product Marketing Manager, Document Management Solutions, Konica Minolta Australia.

Konica Minolta is partnering with FileBound and Hyland OnBase for a range of ECM solutions offered both in the cloud and on-premise.

Fileound Small Business Edition is target at Small Business and only supports up to 10 concurrent users and a maximum store of 2 million documents. FileBound Enterprise Edition supports unlimited users and up to 20 million documents.

OnBase has a lot more features typically required by large organisations, e.g. records management, compliance tools, vertical industry specific software and case management. It also offers Vers2 compliance required by government clients.

“Globally, business agility has now become the main advantage delivered by Cloud computing. In the initial phase of Cloud, the key metric was cost reduction. However, as organisations look to aggressively innovate in their markets, the ability to enter new markets, create new products and services and “punch above their weight” - all still underpinned by cost savings - has now become the big game changer;” adds Stevan Caldwell,  National Marketing Manager, Konica Minolta Australia. 

“WeOptimise Cloud services is a further example of Konica Minolta building on its award-winning multifunction printers to deliver services that help customers reduce costs, increase productivity, improve data security and greater sustainability.”