Inkjet & Digital Printing
Samsungs New XOA Platform Supports Customized Print Solutions Including Samsungs Own Document Management Applications
Wednesday 23. March 2011 - Samsung Forges Strategic Partnerships to Deliver Powerful, Flexible Enterprise Printing Solutions
Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, today announced a dynamic suite of printing solutions for mid-size to enterprise businesses. Using relationships with strategic partners, Samsung has prepared a number of printing solutions to be integrated with its powerful and flexible eXtensible Open Architecture (XOA) platform. With the XOA platform, Samsung can provide customized enterprise solutions integrated with multi-function printers and copiers to meet the specific requirements of a variety of customers in business, education, healthcare, government and more.
“We are excited that, after several years of mutual development and testing, Samsung is launching an XOA platform to support our partners value-added software solutions,” said Ron Nevo, senior manager of solutions marketing at Samsung Electronics America Enterprise Business Division. “Our goal is to combine the first class technology built into all of our printers and copiers with our partners unique applications to offer business users a broad spectrum of solutions for document management, secure printing, and cost-savings. We look forward to continuing to collaborate on the development of new, innovative solutions that enhance the user experience.”
Select Samsung A3 and A4 multi-function printing devices including the SCX-5935NX, SCX-6555NX, CLX-8540NX, CLX-9350ND, CLX-9250ND, SCX-8040ND and SCX-8030ND come complete and embedded with XOA and are capable of running the partners solutions with powerful functionality and an easy, intuitive user interface.
The Samsung XOA platform supports a range of partner print management offerings ranging from document output to security and accounting support, as well as supporting Samsungs own unique software management solutions, including:
Samsung SecuThru Office – An embedded application solution which provides printing security features for protecting intellectual assets and enabling convenient authentication such as employees badge and others.
Samsung CounThru – A Managed Print Service (MPS) software solution that offers total visibility of printer and copier devices usage hosted under an outsourced service contract
Samsung ScanThru – A solution that streamlines and simplifies document workflow by capturing paper and electronic documents and distributing them to predetermined destinations.
Samsung SyncThru 5 – A printer fleet management software tool that increases the productivity of an organization by allowing the IT administrator, support staff and users to manage, monitor and diagnose multiple printing devices remotely.
Current Samsung partners with ready-to-go embedded XOA solutions include:
BITS
BITS offers One Stop Print Release, a cost-effective and simple, secure printing solution. It allows the user to print to a central queue using a Samsung print driver as if they are printing directly to the device. The user can then collect the print-out from any XOA enabled device at any time, following an authentication process. All activity is logged and can be reported for easy usage tracking.
DPD International
DPD Internationals GoldFax platform for Samsung XOA enables organizations to gain centralized control of their inbound and outbound faxing, without the need for multi-function peripheral fax kits or fax lines. Faxes are managed via the Internet through a GoldFax server. Users can send and receive faxes from any Samsung XOA device as well as through desktop applications and email. GoldFax reduces costs while increasing productivity as well as meeting security regulations.
Drivve US, LLC.
Drivves suite of tools lets users integrate and optimize their information-rich documents supporting the entire document life-cycle. Fully automated, flexible scan profiles with predefined document filing allow document input and processing with features, such as advanced image cleaning, Bates stamping, customized indexing and outputting to a variety of locations.
Genius Bytes
Genius Bytes provides a scalable, secure pull printing platform allowing users to have full control over their printing environments while protecting from unauthorized copying or printing. This includes document encryption and decryption, user authentication and job accounting.
Intellinetics
Intellinetics provides Intellivue XOA, a platform that combines Samsungs XOA devices with Intellivues Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Platform. Intellivue has created a new industry benchmark in its ability to deliver economic and operational impact with indexing, workflow, advanced security, and enhanced access control.
MWAi
MWAi provides MPS dealers with a PC-less device management solution. The XOA embedded software allows remote diagnostics, automated meter reading, automated service call creation as well as reporting and analytics.
Pharos Systems International
Pharos provides powerful print management and optimization solutions to corporations, educational institutions, and libraries. Pharos Blueprint Enterprise and Uniprint software save money, reduce waste, and make it easy to secure devices and documents.
Prism Software
Prisms DocRecord complete modular and scalable suite of software manages an organizations complete electronic document lifecycle. Electronic documents captured from an XOA device can be automatically organized, filed, retrieved and archived into any company system equipped with a Zone OCR function, saving time and resources.
Ubiquitech
Ubiquitechs EASY software, coupled with their VDMS print management platform, provides a flexible job accounting and secure print management solution. It offers easy installation, gives control, saves costs and increases security and confidentiality with pull printing.
Samsungs printing solutions will be available at the end of March through select resellers