Kyocera Document Solutions

Kyocera Document Solutions is a Japan-based provider of document-management products and services, with its headquarters in Osaka. Its history in its present organizational form is associated with Kyocera Corporation’s acquisition of the insolvent copier manufacturer Mita Industrial in 2000. Kyocera’s output-management and network-connectivity capabilities were brought together with Mita’s copier and multifunction-device expertise, forming a business serving digital-office needs across printing, copying, scanning and faxing. The company was known as Kyocera Mita before it adopted the name Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. worldwide on April 1, 2012. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera Corporation in Japan. Its offering combines hardware and software. Hardware includes printers and multifunction systems; software and services cover areas such as system and output management, security, document management, workflow, enterprise content management (ECM), and managed document services. The company’s software portfolio has been expanded through acquisitions, including businesses and platforms associated with print management and document- and content-management solutions. The German-language source identifies PrinTaurus and nscale among the software offerings retained under their respective providers following acquisitions. Kyocera Document Solutions serves business and digital-office customers. In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Kyocera Document Solutions Europe B.V. coordinates regional activities from Hoofddorp in the Netherlands. Its regional organization includes local offices and an authorized-dealer network; European sales, marketing and service functions are also described as having a presence in Meerbusch, Germany. The company’s positioning is therefore broader than printer hardware alone: it combines office output devices with software and services intended to support document-intensive work and business processes. The company has also pursued technology partnerships, sustainability programs and sports partnerships. The supplied source describes a 2020 strategic alliance with Kodak Alaris to offer scanners, a long-running collaboration with Deutsche Umwelthilfe, and the Print Green program for climate-neutral printing. Its current ownership remains within the Kyocera group. The available evidence does not establish a company founder, current worldwide executive leadership, or a more specific present-day corporate listing status for the subsidiary.

Kyocera Document Solutions traces its present business organization to the combination of Kyocera’s output-management and network-connectivity activities with the copier and multifunction-device business of Mita Industrial. According to the supplied German-language Wikipedia entry, Kyocera acquired the insolvent copier manufacturer in 2000 and organized Kyocera Mita, based in Osaka. The combination expanded the business into digital office systems spanning print, copy, scan and fax. The source reports that the combined company employed about 12,300 people in 2000. On April 1, 2012, Kyocera Mita changed its name worldwide to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. This name change reflected a scope that encompassed more than office machines: the company offered printers and multifunction devices alongside software and services for document management, workflow, output management and enterprise content management. The same source identifies Kyocera Corporation in Japan as the parent and says Kyocera Document Solutions is wholly owned by it. The business expanded its software and document-services activities through acquisitions. On June 5, 2012, it acquired AKI GmbH, a Würzburg-based provider of software-based print-management solutions. The source says AKI continued as the provider of PrinTaurus in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On September 1, 2015, the company acquired the Ceyoniq group, a provider of digital document-management and enterprise-content-management solutions. Ceyoniq continued as an independent provider of the nscale platform, intended to support the optimization and automation of document-intensive business processes. In early 2016, Kyocera Document Solutions established a dedicated DMS/ECM business area to market tailored workflow and document-management solutions. The source also records further expansion of this area in early 2020 through the acquisitions of Optimal Systems, a Berlin-based ECM company, and French software company Ever Team. In June 2020, Kyocera Document Solutions formed a strategic alliance with Kodak Alaris to offer scanners, extending its document-solutions range beyond its established printer and multifunction-device categories. Regional organization has been an important part of the company’s operating history. Kyocera Document Solutions Europe B.V. coordinates activities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa from Hoofddorp in the Netherlands. The source describes local offices in a number of European countries and in South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Russia, supplemented by authorized dealers in other countries in the region. It also identifies Meerbusch, Germany, as the location of European sales and marketing planning and the European Service Center. Environmental initiatives and partnerships feature in the company’s public history. The source says Kyocera has worked with Deutsche Umwelthilfe since 1987 and describes the Kyocera Environmental Award and the Print Green program, launched in 2013, which supports climate-neutral printing and the organization myclimate. It also records a research-network partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO), and sports partnerships involving Borussia Mönchengladbach and the German Hockey Federation. These supplied historical details establish a business that developed from office hardware into a broader document-solutions provider; the source does not establish the company’s current executive leadership beyond the cited German managing director.

• Environmental collaboration with Deutsche Umwelthilfe begins, according to the source

• Kyocera acquires insolvent copier maker Mita Industrial and organizes Kyocera Mita

• Kyocera Mita changes its worldwide name to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

• Acquisition of AKI GmbH, a print-management software provider

• Print Green program for climate-neutral printing begins, according to the source

• Acquisition of the Ceyoniq group

• A dedicated DMS/ECM business area is established

• Dietmar Nick begins serving as managing director of the German subsidiary, according to the source

• Acquisitions of Optimal Systems and Ever Team expand document and content-management activities

• Strategic alliance with Kodak Alaris to offer scanners

A business-focused digital-office and document-solutions provider combining printing and multifunction hardware with software and services for output, workflow and document management.

• Printers and multifunction systems

  Office hardware for printing, copying, scanning and faxing.

• ECOSYS laser printers

  The source describes ECOSYS technology as using durable ceramic-coated drums and relatively low power consumption.

• PrinTaurus

  Print-management software associated with AKI, which the source says continued to provide it in Germany, Austria and Switzerland after the acquisition.

• nscale

  A document-management and enterprise-content-management platform provided by Ceyoniq.

1. 1Kyocera Document Solutions — German Wikipediade.wikipedia.org
2. 2Kyocera Document Solutions — Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Kyocera Document Solutions official websitekyoceradocumentsolutions.com