Konica Minolta brings Workplace Hub

Designed to future-proof workplaces of every size as they work towards digital transformation, Konica Minolta has introduced Workplace Hub, an innovative new enterprise IT solution that unifies all of an organization’s technology via a single centralized platform. Version one of Workplace Hub, which will be made available from October 2017, directly addresses growing IT complexity by providing more efficient and effective management of the disparate array of tools, services and devices used by modern organizations.

This new platform represents the next phase of Konica Minolta’s long history in innovation, marking its position in the IT services market and perfectly placing the firm to meet the evolving needs of business customers. Acting as a central hub that simplifies IT for an organization, Workplace Hub drives efficiencies by reducing the overall costs of IT management and service provision, and providing real-time data-driven insights that help to improve business processes. By creating an ecosystem to manage and coordinate the entire IT infrastructure and services across existing and future IT systems, devices and services, Workplace Hub provides users with a central dashboard showing 360-degree visibility of IT usage patterns across the whole business, allowing for simple management and optimization of systems.

Moreover, the platform’s product roadmap includes future integration of IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Edge and Decision Support capabilities as they become more central to the business environment of tomorrow. Adding this cognitive layer of organizational insight unleashes an intuitive understanding of the world that empowers people to collaborate better and to make smarter, data-driven decisions more effectively and easily.

Global partnerships with HPE, Sophos and Microsoft deliver best-in-class hardware, security and IT solutions. Additional services from Canonical and BrainTribe bring the power of open source and advanced data management, helping to facilitate effective digital transformation for any business.

This strategic shift will allow Konica Minolta to deliver more comprehensive digital transformation solutions, while continuing its heritage of providing the very best products and services for the business market as a whole.

''The new-age businesses have dynamic workloads, giving rise to the need for a holistic solution synched in a single platform. Workplace hub comes as an answer to the growing complexities associated with diverse work-related requirements, furnishing unprecedented management of a host of different devices, platforms and tools. This will not only help businesses in significantly enhancing their output but will also lead to increased in-house efficiency,'' said Yuji Nakata, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India.

Workplace Hub version one will be available from October 2017 to organizations looking for enterprise quality managed services at an affordable price.