This new platform represents the next phase of Konica Minolta’s long history in innovation, marking its position in the IT services market.

Acting as a central hub that simplifies IT for an organisation, Workplace Hub will drive efficiencies by reducing the overall costs of IT management and service provision, and by providing real-time data-driven insights that help 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 will provide users with a central dashboard showing 360-degree visibility of IT usage patterns across the whole business, allowing for simple management and optimisation of systems.

The platform’s product roadmap will include future integration of IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Edge and Decision Support capabilities as they become more central to the business environment of tomorrow.

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

Dennis Curry, vice-president and director of business innovation and R&D, Konica Minolta, said “Workplace Hub will evolve to become the most comprehensive platform for the services and capabilities demanded by the workplace of the future. It means businesses can grow and manage their IT in tandem with changing business needs. It simplifies IT operations today and paves the way for exciting new integrations, such as AI and intelligent edge computing, to become a central part of the digital organisation of the future.”

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 come 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 organisations looking for enterprise quality managed services at an affordable price.

For details, log on to http://workplacehub.konicaminolta.com.