{"id":2662,"date":"2020-04-26T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2025-04-17T23:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:57:49","slug":"kodak-alaris-annual-partner-summit-goes-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/kodak-alaris-annual-partner-summit-goes-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Alaris\u2019 Annual Partner Summit goes virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over 200 partners joined Kodak Alaris at its first virtual Partner Summit. The global information capture specialist had planned on holding its annual partner conference for the EMEA<\/a> region in Vienna from April 21 \u2013 23, but in light of the current COVID-19 crisis, decided to make it a virtual event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaris President &\nGeneral Manager Don Lofstrom confirmed that despite the challenges presented by\nthe current global pandemic, Kodak Alaris\u2019 performance in the financial year\nended March 31 was strong overall. In his address to partners, he provided an\nupdate on the impact of COVID-19 on the business and the marketplace over the\npast four months, as well as steps Kodak Alaris has taken to minimise\ndisruption to its customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmployee safety and\nsupply chain management have been at the forefront of the company\u2019s focus,\u201d\nLofstrom said. \u201cOur supply chain is now intact and strong, our manufacturing\nsites in China are up and running at nearly full capacity. Scanner production\nis over 95 percent capacity now compared with 40 percent in March. Our\nsecondary supply chain partners are also beginning to normalise, although we\ncontinue to monitor this very carefully in certain regions.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst March brought\nsome delays and slippage to orders, Lofstrom said that this month has seen\nincreased demand from a number of sectors including healthcare and logistics. \u201cWork\nfrom home mandates are also creating market needs for digitization and remote\ncollaboration solutions that involve our digital capture and software offers\u201d\nhe explained, adding: \u201cWe have also increased our use of remote monitoring and\nservice to ensure we keep\ncustomers up and running<\/a>, and do continue to provide essential on-site\nservice in locations where government mandates allow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

66% of partners who\nattended the virtual event said that COVID-19 had \u2018considerably changed\u2019 their\nbusiness and that they were looking to change their business strategy. Lofstrom\nsaid that Kodak Alaris is thinking outside the box, looking for opportunities\nto offer expertise to help partners overcome these new challenges. \u201cWe expect\nsome short-term decline for most applications as a result of the crisis but are\nconfident that there will be some pockets of incremental demand. The need to share\ndocuments across remote teams<\/a> and accurately capture data and\nautomate business processes will remain critical, with many organisations under\npressure to remove manual steps and reduce staff time,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lofstrom also\nbelieves that technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic\nprocess automation (RPA) and machine learning will continue to change scanning\nrequirements. \u201cAI and machine learning require\nintelligent capture, RPA accelerates process automation and edge capture\nfollows edge computing,\u201d he said. Kodak Alaris is well positioned to help\npartners capitalise on the opportunity with offerings including its\npartner-centric, cloud-connected scanning solution INfuse<\/a>;\nusage-based pricing; cloud-based software and managed services including fleet\nmanagement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lofstrom also provided partners with insight\ninto the future roadmap. He confirmed that the INFuse infrastructure has been\nexpanded to work with Amazon and Alibaba (in addition to Microsoft Azure) and announced\nthe launch of a new Windows server edition, new legal flatbed accessory and\ncard reader accessory with availability in late summer. \u201cThe low volume\nproduction scanning market presents growth opportunity for partners,\u201d Lofstrom\nsaid. \u201cTo this end we will be launching an updated series of scanners later\nthis year.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion,\nLofstrom said that partners bring Alaris technology to life and confirmed the\ncompany\u2019s commitment to investing in its channel partners. \u201cWe have a strong\npartner network and continued investment in partner enablement is important to\nus. We have this year, developed relationships with a new breed of partner –\nAI, RPA and software vendors, as we look to expand our reach and share in new\nmarkets. We continue to gear our efforts to support our resellers in winning\ntheir most promising opportunities, through the provision of market development\nfunds, best-in-class partner resource management systems and marketing\ncollateral. We will also be adding more capabilities to enable partners in reselling\nsoftware solutions. Working together we will succeed in this challenging\nenvironment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kodak Alaris is planning a series of follow-up\nevents designed to keep partners engaged throughout the year. These include virtual\nbreakout sessions in April and May covering opportunities within the enterprise\nand public sectors, archiving and digital\nmailroom<\/a> markets; as well as sessions looking at key vertical market\nsolutions\/opportunities, sales enablement and bringing further value\nthrough the Alaris\nPartner Programme<\/a>. The company will\nalso recognise its partners\u2019 achievements in a virtual awards presentation on May\n20th<\/sup>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alaris President & General Manager Don Lofstrom confirmed that despite the challenges presented by the current global pandemic, Kodak Alaris\u2019 performance in the financial year ended March 31 was strong overall. In his address to partners, he provided an update on the impact of COVID-19 on the business and the marketplace over the past four months, as well as steps Kodak Alaris has taken to minimise disruption to its customers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1],"tags":[1249,724,353,565,927,1250],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-other-tech-events","tag-annual_summit","tag-covid_19","tag-emea","tag-kodak_alaris","tag-machine_learning","tag-virtual"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Donald-J-Lofstrom-KA-pic-1-e1587975266659.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}