Fuji Xerox dives into the cloud
Fuji Xerox Australia aims to bridge the gap between personal cloud storage and enterprise-grade EDRMS with its new hosted document management offering, known as Working Folder.
Aimed at small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Working Folder is a hosted offering able to be accessed directly from the control panel of the company's multi-function devices (MFDs)
It also integrates with SharePoint and the company's proprietary content management system DocuShare, to provide a pain-free way for larger organisations to allow for external collaboration and add extranet functionality.
Fuji Xerox Australia segment lead for software, Peter Brittliff, said that Working Folders will deliver a business-grade platform as it is hosted in a local Tier 4 data centre, with military-grade encryption of data and IP address filtering capabilities.
“Employees regularly on the road, such as salespeople, will enjoy ready access to documents anytime, anywhere. Professional services in finance and accounting, legal, construction, real estate and property, retail, hospitality and healthcare are just some of the fields that will find Working Folder a boon in streamlining their operations,” he said.
Brittliff also sees opportunities at many of the enterprise customers for Docushare, who are reluctant to provide external access to their EDRMS.
"Working Folder can synchronise content on Docushare or in SharePoint and allow specific collections to be published for collaboration with parties outside the organisation. This includes the ability to provide audit trails so organisations can track who has shared what and who they have shared it with."
Working Folder utilises simple drag and drop operations and compatible Fuji Xerox multifunction devices will allow for direct scanning to and printing from the Working Folder Cloud without any additional configuration.
Fuji-Xerox MFDS are able to integrate with other network and cloud document management platforms however this requires the implementation of additional server solutions.
"SharePoint is a great platform for collaboration in tandem with DocuShare, and Working Folder will provide an additional layer of robust content management with version tracking and the ability to send links externally via email, for example," said Brittliff.