Canon India announces digiCONNECT - An exclusive platform to create awareness & knowledge sharing on digitization for its channel partners.
Canon India Pvt Ltd. has launched an exclusive program 'digiCONNECT' specially designed for its channel partners across various regions in India with an attempt to connect people with digitization.
- (1888PressRelease) September 26, 2012 - Bangalore - Canon India Pvt Ltd., India's No. 1 Complete Digital Imaging Company, has launched an exclusive program 'digiCONNECT' specially designed for its channel partners across various regions in India with an attempt to connect people with digitization. The program is aimed at creating awareness, building a better understanding and sharing extensive knowledge with its channel partners about Canon's products and services. Currently the programme is focussing on the wide range of Document scanners available at Canon thereby sharing benefits & applications of digitization.
The initiative aimed at developing knowledge by sharing need, application, benefits and market of ADF based document scanners to channel partners and their VAR's / IT resellers which will include a range of Document Scanners such as P-215, DR-C125, DR-2020U, DR-M140 and DR-M160 etc. This category addresses the need ranging from Personal to Workgroup to High Production scanning falling in the bracket of 15ppm to 100ppm with ADF capacity from 20 sheets to 500 sheets in one go. Most of them are equipped with 3 way scanning: through ADF, Flatbed and even Business/ID/Embossed cards paths. These document scanners find wide use in verticals such as BFSI, Telecom, Government and Home/Personal usage. Most of the organizations in these verticals have already moved into digitization of documents as scanning of these has now become mobile. People can scan documents anytime, anywhere making business on the move with mobile scanner (P-215) which is very stylish and is fast becoming a part of Gadgets that people carry today for scanning personal documents like mark sheets, insurance policies, property documents etc.
Dr Alok Bharadwaj, Senior V.P, Canon India, said, "Canon has always been focussed and connected with its partners through various engagement platforms. Initiated recently, digiCONNECT has been showcasing our technology. We have done six such digiCONNECT meets in Meerut, Ludhiana, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Baroda with more in the pipeline in the coming months. These programmes have efficiently empowered our partners with product knowledge, understanding its application and have helped them build strong relationship along with providing them an open forum for discussing the challenges and growth opportunities in digitization."
"Canon being a technology leader and a complete imaging company brings in the complete solution which contributes to environment by archiving the documents and creating workflows for movement of documents digitally thereby digitization of documents becomes the first step towards this. Through this program partners have realised the importance of digitization and have identified various verticals and segments with technology behind digitization getting a detailed thought on Canon's range of products targeted to various segments." He added.
Commenting on this, Mr K Bhaskhar, Senior Director, OIS Division, Canon India said, "digiCONNECT propagates the concept of 3C's: Connect, Communicate and Collaborate with our customers. We look forward to use this platform to accelerate our reach to the IT channel partners and also to use this platform to launch new offering in the Image Management System space. This forum helps us in getting the feedback and ideas from the IT channel, which will eventually help us to devise our overall strategies. At Canon, we work towards providing technical innovations which helps our IT channel partners with indispensable knowledge to use them in an efficient manner. digiCONNECT will help us to get connected with the VAR's / IT resellers and expand the business horizon in Tier II cities to generate awareness among the partners and demonstrate them along with having a feel of the product as Canon believes in the philosophy of 'Seeing is believing'."
About Canon Inc.
Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leader in the fields of professional and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. Canon's extensive range of products includes copying machines, inkjet and laser printers, cameras, video equipment, medical equipment and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment. Originally established in 1937 as Precision Optical Industry, Co., Ltd., a camera manufacturer, Canon has successfully diversified and globalized to become a worldwide industry leader in professional and consumer imaging systems and solutions. With over 200,000 employees worldwide, Canon has manufacturing and marketing subsidiaries in Japan, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania; and a global R&D network with companies based in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. Canon's consolidated net sales for fiscal 2011 (ended December 31, 2011) totalled $45.6 billion (at an exchange rate of \78=US$1). Visit the Canon Inc. website at: www.canon.com
Canon in India
Canon India closed the year of 2011 with revenues of Rs.1525 crore and is targeting Rs. 2100 crore in 2012 which is 40% growth over 2011. Canon focuses on multiple market segments of consumer, B2B, Government & Commercial. Canon's product portfolio extends over a vast variety of copier MFDs, fax-machines, printers, scanners, All-in-ones, digital cameras, camcorders and multimedia projectors, cable ID printers, semiconductors and card printers.
Canon India Pvt. Ltd. is a 100% subsidiary of Canon Singapore Pvt. Ltd., a world leader in imaging technologies. Set up in 1997, Canon India markets over 140 comprehensive range of sophisticated contemporary digital imaging. The company today has offices in 7 cities, warehouses in 13 cities across India and employs over 930 people. Canon has approximately 380 primary channel partners 13 National Retail Chain partners, and over 4000 secondary retail points. Oce distributors in India will now be a part of Canon partner network. Canon's service reach extends to over 200 towns with over 200 service Engineers, 7 Master service centers and 37 Canon Care Centers. Canon and Océ products are available with complete service support network.
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