Canon Australia and Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand have announced a partnership to host Canon’s Therefore Online workflow and information management solution on Fujitsu’s cloud platform from early 2014. 

Therefore Online is an extension of Canon’s Therefore software platform, which is designed to provide a full information management and workflow solution for  businesses across various sources of information including paper documents, electronic files, barcodes, email, internet forms and XML files.                    

Therefore Online is the first of Canon Australia’s applications to be hosted on the Fujitsu platform and will pave the way for a new suite of cloud-based offerings that will allow the delivery of the applications to consumers on a cost-effective subscription model. Ideal for small to medium businesses (SMB), Therefore Online is scalable to organisations of all sizes.

This partnership leverages Canon’s existing long-term relationship with Fujitsu.  The two companies have worked together on similar agreements in the United States and Europe; however this agreement is specific to Canon Australia and Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand.

Taz Nakamasu, Managing Director of Canon Oceania, said “Canon is pleased to be collaborating with Fujitsu to bring to market a fully integrated cloud-based solution that helps businesses transform the way information is managed and shared throughout their organisation. Therefore Online provides SMBs with a means to capture, manage, retrieve and control all business information in any format with the flexibility of cloud delivery. 

"It provides SMBs and enterprises with productivity, security and compliance advantages in a platform that is accessible to all on a ‘pay-as-you-use’ basis. Fujitsu’s cloud is delivered locally from Fujitsu’s Australian data centres, providing us with the confidence that our customers’ data will not go offshore.”