Fuji Xerox Enhances Its Cloud-based Document Sharing Service

TOKYO – To meet the growing demand from companies seeking to thoroughly implement secure and high-capacity cloud-based services at a lower cost, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. has increased the storage capacity of its cloud-based Working Folder and Working Folder Plus servicesNote1 by more than 10-fold and upgraded basic services including security by adopting Amazon Web Services.

Even with greater capacity and security, Fuji Xerox has maintained the existing price. The basic service provides 100 gigabytes (GB) of storage for Working Folder (can be expanded up to five terabytes (TB)), and 600 GB for Working Folder Plus (can be expanded up to 50 TB) for seamless, easy storage of the immense volumes of business document data. The services also cater to large-scale utilization,Note2 such as companywide usage, at lower cost. For a company with 5,000 users, the service is available for approximately 320 yen per user, which is competitive pricing as a cloud storage service for businesses.

Adopting Amazon Web Services provided by Amazon Web Services, Inc., the services provide a secure environment required for business, backed by the equipment configuration and operating system that ensure interruption-free operation. By providing safe and secure cloud-based storage environment, Fuji Xerox strives to assist customers with communications to achieve an improved business performance.

With the aims to meet diverse societal needs by accelerating the transformation of the entire print value chain together with customers and partner companies for the printing workflow, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. announces that it will establish a new open innovation facility (hereafter, the facility) beyond spring of 2018. The facility, which aims to create new values hand-in-hand with customers, will serve as a global hub in providing a point of contact for collaboration with customers and partner companies.

Secondly, the growing momentum toward the work style reforms, it is urgent for companies to balance flexible, diversified work styles, as well as enhancing productivity and streamlining operations. They will launch DocuWorks 9 from January 17, 2018, –the latest version of its document handling software, with new functions to link with cloud services for efficient mobile working. DocuWorks, which enables electronic document management as if handling paper documents, has been evolving in line with the changing work styles and needs of customers since it was launched in 1998. With new functions for mobile work that allow users to continue an unfinished work anytime, anywhere, Fuji Xerox has further enhanced the software as a business portal that serves as an entrance to all business operations.

Another report says, Copier leader Xerox corp. is in talks to strike a major deal with Fujifilm Holdings Corp. are discussing on vary best possibility of change of control in Xerox. If it happens so, it’ll a win-win for both Fujifilm and Xerox a chance to root out costs and make their legacy business more efficient, as experts says. Xerox and Fujifilm have a long history together. They struck a joint venture 55 years back that is known as Fuji Xerox and sells copiers and printers in the Asia-Pacific region.

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