Konica Minolta & Infofort Join Forces to Accelerate Digital Transformation

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Middle East, a leader in office equipment and workflow business solutions has signed a channel partnership agreement with CBK Soft, a subsidiary of leading information management solution provider InfoFort. The partnership will benefit both companies to offer technical expertise in workflow and document management for their regional customers.

The GCC business automation market is growing at a fast pace and is projected to expand further as regional economies now look towards building Smart Cities based on digital transformation. In order to keep up with the fast-expanding digital marketplace, Konica Minolta has expanded its scope and integrated its widely used Multi-Functional Office Products with InfoFort’s enVision document management technology.

Through this integration, customers in the Middle East will now be able to manage digital content including storage, access and sharing information digitally. In addition, users will be able to benefit from advanced capabilities such as automation, workflow, e-forms, scan-to-process, alongside flexible integration provided on cloud or on-premise.

Commenting on the partnership, Kazuo Kobayashi, Managing Director at Konica Minolta, said, “With digital transformation changing every aspect of today’s business, our customers are keen to embrace new integrated workflow technologies that will support the bi - directional development between paper and digital.  Furthermore, with the new integrated connector developed by Konica Minolta the deployment of the software is simply plug and play.”

Abed Shaheen, CEO of InfoFort, said, "Seamless integration and flow between hardware and content management technologies has become critical in today’s business environment. Our partnership with Konica Minolta addresses this demand and is a step forward in delivering efficient and productive services that will help speed up digital transformation. ”InfoFort began its operations in the UAE in 1997 and today is the leading Information Management Solution provider assisting more than 2,000 organisations in 25 cities.