News – 13 October 2021

Portal Systems and Konica Minolta announce partnership in the area of ECM Cloud Solutions

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Press release (Langenhagen / Hamburg) – New partnership: Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland GmbH (Konica Minolta) relies on the Shareflex Online Solutions by Portal Systems AG (Portal Systems) in the area of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in the Microsoft 365 environment. Through this strategic expansion of its existing product portfolio, Konica Minolta continues to expand its market position in ECM Cloud Solutions.

Shareflex meets Microsoft Business Central

Enterprise Content Management supports companies in electronically managing analogue documents and digital information alike. Here, more and more companies are relying on Microsoft 365 and SharePoint. Via Shareflex, business applications can be used “out of the box” as well as configured and individually adapted to customer processes. The addition of Shareflex solutions to our product portfolio enhances our existing enterprise infrastructure and provides our customers with another opportunity to generate value through data. Thanks to the expertise gained from countless SharePoint and ECM projects as well as ERP interface development for Microsoft Business Central (formerly Microsoft Dynamics NAV), this further partnership is therefore a logical and consistent step for Konica Minolta on its strategic path to becoming a “fully comprehensive system house”.

Strengthen ECM business division

Mario Koch, Head of ECM at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Germany: “We are very pleased that with this partnership we can strengthen our ECM business area with a successful ECM cloud solution and offer solutions that are in high demand in the market. We will directly translate the previous know-how from our SharePoint and ECM projects into added value for our customer projects.”

Harald Greiner, Manager Sales ECM at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Germany, adds: “In addition, with our expertise in contract management, digital file management and the interface development department in Microsoft Dynamics NAV/BC, we bring extensive knowledge that we have acquired in more than 300 customer projects. The direct transfer of documents from the ERP MS-Dyn. BC into Shareflex, without leaving the customer’s tenant, is already established on the market today and we are happy to advise our customers accordingly already in the first discussions and projects. We see great potential for our partnership with Portal Systems AG.”

Significant added value for existing and prospective customers

For interested parties and customers, the partnership will result in significant added value: In the future, they will be able to take advantage of a significantly expanded range of services from the Konica Minolta portfolio. Furthermore, they benefit from the profound and long-standing ECM competence of both partners.

Frank von Orlikowski, CEO of Portal Systems AG, says: “We are very proud that we could win Konica Minolta, one of the leading ECM/DMS specialists, as a new Shareflex ECM partner. With this new partnership, we underline our strategic orientation towards the Microsoft 365 market. Our product portfolio is optimally extended by the Dynamics NAV/BC interfaces of Konica Minolta. Konica Minolta’s Microsoft 365 team has many years of experience in this environment and we were able to convince them with our Shareflex ECM product suite. We as Portal Systems are very pleased that we can further expand our alignment as a product manufacturer for ECM/DMS-based solutions for Microsoft 365 with this new strategic partner.”

The solutions of both partners complement each other seamlessly. And thanks to the experience gained from the large number of projects carried out, Konica Minolta can thus offer standardised solutions for its customers quickly and cost-effectively.

About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland GmbH:

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Germany is shaping the intelligently connected workplace and accompanying its customers through the digital era as a reliable and professional partner, creating added value from data for its customers. With its smart office products such as market-leading printing systems, cloud services and IT services, the company supports mobile working and the optimisation and digitalisation of business processes, among other things. According to the latest IDG customer survey, Konica Minolta is the leading managed service provider in Germany, offering business software, infrastructure and security solutions as part of its IT services.

In addition, as a 10-year leader in production printing and a leader in inkjet, finishing and label printing, Konica Minolta is helping customers develop new business opportunities with state-of-the-art technology, software and the latest innovations in printing, applications and know-how.

With solutions in video services and healthcare, Konica Minolta covers a wide range of hardware, software and services. The company guarantees customer proximity and professional project management via direct sales and around 300 partners.

The headquarters of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland GmbH in Langenhagen are headed by Managing Directors Joerg Hartmann and Kenichiro Fukasawa. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc. based in Tokyo, Japan. With approximately 44,000 employees worldwide (as of March 2021), Konica Minolta, Inc. net sales of around €7 billion in fiscal year 2020/2021.

About Portal Systems AG:

Portal Systems AG is one of the few system houses on the market to combine enterprise content management (ECM) and SharePoint expertise under one roof. Based on 20 years of experience and expertise from projects with over 300 customers, we develop and market digital solutions for document-centric business processes. The Shareflex product suite is based on SharePoint (Online) and Microsoft Office 365. It includes business applications such as contract management, incoming invoice processing or document control for your QM system as well as modern, holistic document management (DMS) & ECM.