Ricoh Europe joins Kofax Global Partner Program

Ricoh Europe will resell Kofax’s portfolio of document capture software solutions and maintenance and professional services as part of its imaging and solutions business. The new agreement expands Kofax’s presence to customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). As part of the Kofax Global Partner Program, Ricoh Europe joins more than 700 Kofax channel partners worldwide.

“We’re impressed with the resources, personnel and focus Kofax dedicates to its partners and are pleased to become a Platinum Partner,” said Emma Isichei, Director, Advanced Solutions Centre, Ricoh Europe. “This alliance will help us to support our customers to transform their business processes through a document capture platform.”

“This alliance and our Global Partner Program further demonstrate our commitment to providing customers worldwide with enterprise document capture solutions that reduce costs, increase efficiency and deliver a tangible ROI,” said Alan Kerr, Executive Vice President of Field Operations at Kofax.

The Kofax Global Partner Program is dedicated to helping VARs, system integrators and other channel partners win business, expand into new markets, grow opportunities in existing ones and provide exceptional returns on investment to customers in the document capture market. The Global Partner Program offers a variety of enablement benefits, marketing resources, sales tools and training to support various business models and program achievement tiers. More information about the program is available at: http://www.kofax.com/partners/solution-provider-program.asp

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About Ricoh
Ricoh Company, Ltd (“Ricoh Company”) is a global technology leader, specialising in the office and production printing markets. Ricoh works with organisations around the world to modernise work environments and optimise document efficiency. With over 108,500 employees worldwide, it operates in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, China and Japan. Ricoh Europe Holdings Plc is a public limited company and the EMEA headquarters of Ricoh Company with operations located in London, United Kingdom and Amstelveen, the Netherlands. In the fiscal year ended 31 March 2010, revenues from Ricoh's EMEA operations totalled over YEN 458.5 billion ($4.5 bn) Ricoh Company's worldwide sales totalled over YEN 2,016 billion ($21bn) during the year ended 31 March 2010.

About Kofax
Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions. For more than 20 years, Kofax has provided award winning solutions that streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture, transformation and exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, government, business process outsourcing, healthcare, supply chain and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organizations, and a global network of more than 700 authorized partners in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.kofax.com


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