Samsung Electronics partners with EMC Corporation & Microsoft to provide document management functionality

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard was signed by Jang-Jae Lee, Senior Vice-President of Digital Printing Division of Samsung Electronics, Kevin Kim, Country Manager of EMC Korea, and Ken Wye Saw, Vice President of Microsoft Asia-Pacific Sales & Marketing at a Samsung facility in Suwon, Korea.

Under terms of the MoU, this solution will initially be available on Samsung Electronics, cost-effective, high-performance multifunction printer SCX-6345N with Samsung's distributed capture solution, SmarThru Workflow. Users will be able to capture electronic documents from the printer using Samsung's SmarThru Workflow or EMC Captiva image capturing solution, and convert them into various file format including Microsoft Office files. Metadata along with converted electronic documents can also be transferred to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server with EMC Documentum 6 Content Repository using Open XML technology.

This solution will greatly enhance business productivity among customers of all sizes, while helping them comply with internal controls and government legislation related to information retention and management. This solution will also help organizations avoid purchasing dedicated high-speed scanners and a separate solution for document management. Investing in this combined solution will significantly reduce the initial investment cost and also enhance reliability, and lower costs.

All three parties have also agreed to cooperate in sales and marketing activities to promote this solution to customers. Under the arrangement, Samsung and Microsoft will cooperate for the SMB market, while all three organizations will work together to create new business opportunities in the large enterprise market.

Jang-Jae Lee, Senior Vice-President of Digital Printing Division of Samsung Electronics, said,

"This MoU brings together the best of all worlds. By combining Samsung's outstanding printing devices and document management solution, along with EMC's industry leading enterprise content management (ECM) technology and Microsoft's user-friendly Office system solution, we will be able to provide enterprise information management capabilities to customers of all sizes."

He added, "We will continue to provide enterprise customers with optimized solutions that enable them to manage documents effectively and to enhance their responsiveness to cope with compliance issues."