Konica Minolta rolls out Managed Content Services around the world

Source: Konica Minolta. Schematic for the new MCS.

Konica Minolta has launched Managed Content Services (MCS), a digital workflow tool with which it targets to achieve revenues of 10 billion yen in three years.

The new service will combine software and MFPs (multifunctional peripherals) to streamline the document lifecycle, addressing the need to manage and leverage business information more effectively. For example, businesses need to get the right information to the right person at the right time, retrieve invoices, orders, reports and correspondence quickly, support a mobile workforce, and comply with information security policies."Managed Content Services will be a game-changer and empower our customers to transform their business and boost competitiveness," said Jonathan Yeo, GM, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia.*Gartner, Managed Content Services' Time Has Come, Ken Weilerstein et al, 15 July 2013. According to Gartner, MCS is a comprehensive package that rationalises, streamlines and optimises business communications by providing customers with consultative help, software and implementation. It provides a suitable business model to solve the problems that are too small and isolated to get the attention of large content management projects, and delivers it to organisations and departments that lack the skills and focus to construct their own solutions. In the early stages of maturation, it is tightly coupled with MPS and focuses on communications inside of the organisation.