Fuji Xerox to Launch Partnership With Adobe Systems
in Electronic Document Server Solutions
Aims at expanding the electronic document solutions market
December 5, 2005
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Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. announced
today that it would strengthen its partnership with Adobe
Systems Incorporated from a strategic perspective, and expand
its solutions business in broad areas including technology
and marketing. As an initial step, Fuji Xerox will collaborate
with Adobe Systems in the area of electronic document server
solutions, starting mid-December 2005. |
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| The two major objectives of the partnership,
which starts in the Japanese market, are as follows: |
| 1) |
Establish a highly secure, efficient electronic
document management system |
| 2) |
Provide timely systems development to major
and mid-sized accounts as well as government and public offices
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| The partnership will cover both system
collaboration and system proposal activities. |
| <Fuji Xerox> |
| In Japan, the environment surrounding enterprises
is rapidly changing with the enactment of the Personal Information
Protection Law, the e-Document Law, changes in evaluation
standards of auditing, and others. To cope with these changes,
Fuji Xerox, with extensive know-how in document management
services, is proposing the importance of document management
related to internal controls. |
| <Adobe Systems> |
| Adobe®
PDF is the standard digital document format worldwide. Adobe®
Acrobat®, which creates and utilizes Adobe® PDFs, enables secure
document control and management. Adobe Systems provides Adobe®
Intelligent Document® Platform as a solution for efficient,
reliable business document management in extend enterprise
and government entities with Adobe® PDF technology. Adobe Systems
is strengthening its sales channels as well as solutions proposals
by cooperating with its strategic partners such as Fuji Xerox,
to meet the users' needs and to expand its Adobe® Intelligent
Document® Platform business. |
| About the collaborative system |
| As a first step, Fuji Xerox will provide
a collaborative system based on Fuji Xerox's latest multifunction
device ApeosPort series that works with Adobe Systems' Adobe®
LiveCycleTM Policy Server as
well as Adobe® LiveCycleTM
Document Server, which will realize Adobe®
LiveCycleTM Solution. Plans
call for the system's launch in spring 2006. |
| Values provided by the collaborative system |
With the collaborative system, users can
scan and digitize paper documents using ApeosPort, and at
the same time set access rights and domains using Adobe System's
Policy Server management function. This will allow users to
manage electronic document from its formation throughout its
process in a consistent manner.
For example, users can freely attribute restrictions such
as distribution, circulation or prints, to electronic documents,
which are digitized according to the company's security policy
on the user's digital multifunction device. This will enable
users to manage the document's security, not only internally,
but also externally even when the document is distributed
outside of the company. This allows the users to strengthen
risk management related to security, and to strengthen competitiveness,
to expand its business along with the acceleration of electronic
document distribution.
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| Through this partnership, the newly created
electronic document related market in Japan is forecasted
to be approximately 1.2 trillion yen in 2009. |
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Holding of seminars (Eight
locations nationwide, prospect of around 20,000 participants) |
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Establish exhibition corner
in Fuji Xerox's showrooms nationwide, starting with the Tokyo
region. |
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Training conducted by Adobe
Systems for Fuji Xerox sales reps |
| Fuji Xerox will assess and adopt Adobe®
PDF technologies such as Adobe® Scan Library to provide document
solutions around the PDF. The company plans to expand systems
sales starting with the Japanese market to the Asia-Pacific
market, while also strengthening its partnership with Adobe
Systems to cover other product areas. |
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