Event highlights strong business opportunities and honours leading distributors
This
year OKI Middle East, India and Sub-Saharan Africa held their Annual
Distributor’s Conference in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain. The
conference was attended by delegates from over 17 countries across the
region and supported by Regional Vice President Eastern Region Miroslav
Tyburec, Lee Webster and Javier Lopez from OKI Europe.
The
conference focused on developing relationships with partners, raising
awareness of business opportunities, product development strategy and
discussions of the company's product and solutions road map. A lot of
effort was made to ensure that all parties fully understood where each
product could be placed in the business market and the corresponding
verticals and how competitive they are in the differing segments.
John Ross,
General Manager of OKI Middle East, India and Sub-Saharan Africa, said,
“We have ambitious growth plans for the coming years and wanted to
ensure that our distributors were clear about OKI’s strategy and brand
values. It was an ideal opportunity to consolidate our message and to
show our commitment and support for the valuable work that they do.”
OKI aims to
continue empowering its partners with the required tools, training and
support to help them improve the company's reach within the region. This
training was initiated in Barcelona with a hands-on demonstration of
the installation and easy customisation of OKI’s Managed Print Solutions software.
Javier Lopez, Senior Solutions Manager OKI Europe also showed the enhanced the Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
functionality across the range of multifunction printers with
Recognition Server, from leading document capture company ABBYY. The Recognition Server from ABBYY
offers enterprise-scale OCR and document conversion providing highly
accurate conversion of images into MS Office formats (Word, Excel,
PowerPoint) or searchable PDF and PDF/A for the purpose of structuring,
searching and archiving. It enables automated, unattended document
processing that can be managed and accessed from within an organisation
as well as remotely with recognition of up to 190 languages.
The new A3 Smart MC800
series multifunction colour printer was also unveiled which gave the
distributors a chance to see the intelligent, user-friendly features and
enhanced functionality these powerful products provide.
Unfortunately,
the weather was not kind to the delegates as they toured the city on
e-bikes during torrential downpours; however the beauty of the city
still shone through.
The conference concluded with the annual awards being given to the distributors as follows:
Distributor of the Year – Smartec of Egypt
Dot Matrix Distributor of the Year – Fakhro Electronics of Bahrain
Mono NIP Distributor of the Year – Jawad Sultan Technologies of Oman
Colour NIP Distributor of the Year – Al Eqtessad of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Consumables Distributor of the Year- Smartec of Egypt
Outstanding Achievement Award – COREX of Malta, Astel of East/West Africa, Qatar Computer Services of Qatar, Al Eqtessad of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Rayyanco of Pakistan and Smartec of Egypt.
