Y Soft has released new hardware solutions for its YSoft SafeQ Workflow Solutions Platform. The two hardware solutions, YSoft SafeQube 2 and YSoft Terminal Pro 4, are designed to reduce costs in an organisation’s print and digital transformation infrastructure.

YSoft SafeQ offers Document capture with automated workflows integrated with centralized print management. Sixty-seven percent of Y Soft partners and customers who participated in the Early Access Release of YSoft SafeQ indicated that the integrated automated workflows was the most anticipated new feature of YSoft SafeQ.

Earlier this year, Y Soft announced a major update to YSoft SafeQ Workflow Solutions Platform. Now as a platform, customers can implement features and modules needed today and easily add additional features and modules using the same underlying framework and architecture, including print management and cost recovery for 3D printers.

YSoft SafeQ’s platform architecture also extended the company’s commitment to YSoft SafeQ’s core benefits: reducing print costs, increasing document security and improving employee productivity through custom document capture and automated workflows.

The release of new hardware solutions for YSoft SafeQ aims to remove the risk expensive servers driving up the high cost of print services. By using SafeQube 2, a lightweight appliance, typically 2-4 times fewer servers can be used to support print services. When used with Client Based Print Roaming (CBPR), a software module in YSoft SafeQ, SafeQube 2 serves as a local connection point for the MFD’s user interface, to perform authentication tasks and data collection for reducing hardware costs.

While SafeQ is embedded into the MFDs of the world’s most popular brands, Terminal Pro 4’s large, 7-inch capacitive touch screen provides a consistent user interface when an organisation has multiple MFD brands or when the printer doesn’t support an embedded solution.
The Terminal Pro 4 is also the user interface panel in YSoft’s family of 3D printers, YSoft be3D DeeRed and YSoft be3D eDee.

Y Soft ensures compatibility of its software and hardware with the major MFD brands and the SafeQ Workflow Solutions Platform has received two certifications.

They are:

• bEST certification from Konica Minolta. The bEST certification approves YSoft SafeQ for Konica Minolta’s portfolio of MFDs.
• Ricoh certification of YSoft SafeQ integration with Ricoh’s portfolio of MFDs.

ANZ market grows

Y Soft claims strong growth in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) with increasing opportunities coming from integrated printing and scanning solutions, and 3D print management solutions for education.

Adam O’Neill, managing director, Australia, Y Soft, said, “Y Soft’s growth in ANZ has been strong and we are currently looking at a revenue boost of 30 per cent year-on-year. In the last 12 months we have brought on customers such as Rawson Homes and Public Transports of Victoria, in association with Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia, which has contributed to this result. We have also opened a new, larger office in Sydney.”

“Y Soft is looking to sustain that growth over the next 12 months by providing enterprise workflow solutions to the local market that organisations need. We are also looking at expanding our sales and consultancy team to support this business goal.”

 “Traditionally, organisations have had one product for print solutions and one for scanning solutions, which means there has been some overlap. This has resulted in organisations essentially paying twice for some features across both products, and making it more difficult for employees to have a seamless printing and scanning experience. The YSoft SafeQ Workflow Solutions Platform prevents paying twice.”

YSoft be3D eDee is designed specifically for the education sector. It is the first 3D printer with print management features, and a comprehensive accounting system to manage and recover 3D printing costs.

Adam O’Neill said, “3D in education is a growing market with more and more educational institutions adopting fleets of 3D printers to help illustrate difficult concepts, enhance hands-on interactive learning, and drive class engagement. There is massive opportunity for Y Soft to provide educational institutions with a solution that is simple to manage and cost-effective.”
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