{"id":8342,"date":"2014-10-22T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2016-09-15T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:55:29","slug":"kyocera-reaches-new-heights-with-its-latest-cost-control-and-security-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/2014\/10\/kyocera-reaches-new-heights-with-its-latest-cost-control-and-security-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyocera Reaches New Heights with its Latest Cost Control and Security Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Danielle Wolowitz, senior director product planning and product marketing at KYOCERA Document Solutions, America, Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you haven\u2019t figured out by now that Kyocera is focused on business applications, then you haven\u2019t been paying attention. Its latest apps, CentraQ PRO and CentraQ, were originally previewed in April at its dealer kickoff meeting, but not officially launched until Oct. 21.<\/p>\n

The two new apps, developed by KDA in the Garden State, are designed for cost control and security and bring benefits such as print queue management, cost control, security, and secure print release to end users. The target market for these apps is SMB, the sweet spot for much of the Kyocera dealer channel. The apps support all Kyocera products, including HyPAS and non-HyPAS printers and MFPs. Functionality wise, the apps enable QR code job release from a network connected smart phone or tablet and integrate with HID card readers for secure job release.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ideally suited to support our total document solutions approach because it is helping our dealer community as well as our customers solve those critical challenges as they relate to document security and printing costs,\u201d says Danielle Wolowitz, senior director, product planning and product marketing at KYOCERA Document Solutions America, Inc. during a press briefing earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The apps support the current generation of Kyocera devices as well as the previous generation. They do not support non Kyocera products. \u201cThese are products that [our dealers] can confidently go into Kyocera customers or prospects and be assured they are going to help that customer resolve some of those challenges around cost control,\u201d emphasizes Wolowitz. \u201cIdeally [they\u2019re for] customers that want to improve their transparency and gain control over costs are companies that should be looking at a product like CentraQ Pro.\u201d<\/p>\n

The apps allow users to release print jobs from any enabled Kyocera MFP or printer on the network. They can also help protect confidentiality of printed documents, reduce cost of paper and toner supplies by setting print parameters, and providing simplified reporting capabilities to assist with job tracking and usage reports. \u201cSix different types of reports will help IT administrators or dealer service technicians look at an account, look at a deployment of a fleet, and optimize that fleet continually, understanding where and when and how devices are being used in an organization,\u201d explained Wolowitz.<\/p>\n

Both apps can support up to 200 devices per print server. The difference between the two apps is that CentraQ does not offer detailed reporting or project reporting while CentraQ PRO does. This detailed reporting and project reporting allows customers to have more visibility on what they\u2019re doing on a regular basis, according to Wolowitz. \u201cYou can also restrict access to functions within the device like print, copy or scan, so that you as an IT administrator have more control over that environment,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

Kyocera\u2019s six standard reports include:<\/p>\n