Above: Left to right, Ron Thompson Jr, Vice President & General Manager, Intelligent Information Management – Video Solution Services, Konica Minolta; Laura Blackmer, President, Dealer Sales, Konica Minolta; Jeff McWilliams, Vice President, Business Development, Square 9 Softworks; Cody Walton, Director of Digital Transformation, Konica Minolta.
Konica Minolta announced its new Intelligent Information Management (IIM) Dealer Program at the company’s High Velocity Dealer Summit, happening this week in Chicago. The initiative expands the company’s IIM solutions to dealers and furthers its continued focus on cloud enablement.
Konica Minolta’s IIM offering begins with digitizing paper documents from filing cabinets and storage, then minimizing the processes that require paper moving forward. Data and documents are then easily accessible through centralized, online cloud access, increasing efficiency and productivity. The solution transforms information-intensive business workflows by using advanced AI capture software to gather key data, rename files automatically or integrate with line-of-business applications to reduce manual keystrokes.
According to Gartner, “Organizations are increasingly looking to consolidate their content services portfolio using cloud-based services that are simple to deploy, configure and operate, and vendors are responding with increasing SaaS capabilities*.” Konica Minolta’s IIM portfolio now also includes Capture as a Service (CaaS), as well as business process outsourcing (BPO) scanning services, and other content management and professional services.
Konica Minolta’s primary partner for this offering is Square 9 Softworks, a leading provider of AI-powered Document Management and workflow solutions. The two companies have been working together for nine years.
“Having the ability to offer form and cloud-based capture, cloud and on-premise content management will be a nice niche for our dealers in the SMB space. Our partnership with Square 9 is a unique alliance in which we control the reseller program, including tiered pricing, perks and the ability to provide additional support such as installations, as well as offer professional service options,” said Ron Thompson Jr, vice president & general manager, Intelligent Information Management – Video Solution Services, Konica Minolta. “We have dedicated a full IIM operations team toward supporting this new initiative, helping dealers looking to expand in the areas of process automation, workflow automation and even into artificial intelligence (AI).”
The IIM program will be incorporated into Konica Minolta’s Rev’d up Dealer Performance Program, enhancing the digital transformation (DX) category and affording tremendous financial value. Launched in 2022, the Rev’d Up Program is designed to reward dealers for diversification, increasing rewards and incentives as they move up in levels.
“We are really excited to bring our dealer partners into a space that is experiencing such incredible growth, said Laura Blackmer, president, Dealer Sales, Konica Minolta. “This will be a tremendous opportunity from a service perspective, with applications in distribution management and remote support and serviceability. We look forward to hearing about their successes.”
“We greatly value our long-standing relationship with Konica Minolta,” said Stephen Young, president and CEO of Square 9 Softworks. “Between our highly flexible, easily configurable AI-powered intelligent information management solutions and Konica Minolta’s global reach and dedicated team of IIM professionals, we see this expanded program as an enormous benefit to our shared resellers in the office technology channel.”
