Fuji Xerox Launches Enterprise
Document Process Outsourcing Service
--New Service to Support Business Process Innovation
June 8, 2005
| Fuji Xerox will commence its new Enterprise
Document Process Outsourcing Service (EDPOS) to support business
process innovation on June 10. |
| Traditionally, raising efficiency or productivity
in a company's business process relied on the introduction
of information systems. However, time-consuming manual procedures
for huge amounts of paper documents such as ledgers remained.
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| EDPOS goes beyond scanning and e-document
storage services that cater to a mere proportion of the work
necessary. Rather, it provides customers with an integrated
range of service functions that range from scanning and attribute
assignment to e-document storage via iDC (Internet Data Center).
By doing so, EDPOS can create new business processes between
the customer and the customer's partner companies, while undertaking
its operations for enhancement. |
| With EDPOS, Fuji Xerox is providing the
management of a wide range of documents, including customer-related
documents in the B-to-C (business to consumer) market, accounting
and financial documents, design documents as well as technical
drawings. The amount of sales Fuji Xerox aims to achieve through
the new service offering is approximately 10 billion yen after
a three-year period. |
| By providing the functions listed below,
EDPOS can support customers' business process innovation.
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Pick up paper documents and all
types of ledger from the customer, transform them to electronic
images and store the images in the iDC. |
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Keep paper documents and media requiring
long-term storage at warehousing business partners for all-inclusive
management of company documents. The customer can then make
a Web request and either the e-document or paper document/media
will be extracted depending on the need. |
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For example, when a customer wants to store a contract,
the electronic version will be added to an e-image database
in the iDC. Not only can the e-document be searched for
and referenced via the Internet, it can be connected to
the customer's existing information system and utilized
on the Internet.
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Additional functions planned include data
uploading by scanning from multifunction machines at separate
customer offices in the same manner as copying, deinking of
paper documents, and electronic signature and time stamp authority
in accord with the E-document law. |
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| In addition to the aforementioned functions,
Fuji Xerox will provide a range of high-value-added services
including consulting services to support the innovation of
specific business processes such as sales and purchasing.
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| By using the service in the same way as
outsourcing services, customers can minimize the investment
required to set up their own system. EDPOS also enables them
to create, recreate and maintain business processes. |
| As the system is operated at the iDC, there
is no need for the customer to purchase any hardware or software
- in essence, an integrated user environment will be provided
pursuant to the service agreement. |
| The operation and management of EDPOS will
be handled by CrossForce Co., Ltd., a joint venture established
with CAC Corporation, to ensure service-level stability. Furthermore,
information assets will be protected under high security,
which in turn acts to bolster the information governance of
a company.
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| Fuji Xerox recognizes the importance of
meeting the needs of global enterprises in addition to those
based solely in Japan. To this end, it intends to team up
with Xerox Corporation in the United States, which was the
first in the industry to launch a similar service, and create
a trilateral system that enables the provision of the service
across Europe and the United States, Japan and Asia. |
| Minimum Price(tax excluded) |
| System utilization fee |
1,000,000 yen/month |
| Minimum configuration : 50 users
or 150 gigabytes |
| Note: |
This information
is for business users and therefore does not include consumption
tax. |
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