Wrapping up an award-winning year, Xerox closed 2009 with an Outstanding Achievement Award for IT Friendliness from Buyers Laboratory.
Overall, Xerox won more than 350 awards globally in 2009 in recognition of innovative technology, reliable products and a leading services offering.
“In 2009, the industry's top analysts, research firms and technology publications all praised Xerox for its commitment to continued development of innovative products,” says Tanya Moodley, divisional manager, group marketing at Bytes Document Solutions, authorised Xerox distributor to 24 sub-Saharan countries.
Many of these products and services were developed using Design for Lean Six Sigma, a technique used by Xerox's Lean Six Sigma team that focuses on the engineering side of operations by improving efficiencies and reducing costs related to the design and delivery of new technology.
Latest innovation
* The Phaser 7500 and its unique “Color by Words” feature won the Tech Innovator of the Year award from Everything Channel as the top printing and imaging product. “Color by Words” is an interactive colour feature that leverages common, everyday words to help describe intended colour output from a printer.
* Xerox's FreeFlow Automation Tool received an Innovative Digital Product award from Digital Imaging Marketing Association.
* The new ColorQube 9200 Series solid ink multifunction printer was given a Global Outstanding Achievement Award from BLI, in recognition of the product's innovation.
* Xerox's iGen4 220 Perfecting Press earned a Future of Print Product Must See 'em Award at Print 09, the year's largest graphic communications event.
Reliable performance
* PCMag.com awarded the Phaser 7500/DN with a Best Printer Award for 2009. Xerox is the only vendor to have two printers included in the PCMag.com Best Products of 2009 Roundup - the Phaser 7500 and Phaser 6280.
* DM Awards, a UK based publication, honoured Xerox DocuShare as the Content Management Product of the Year, SME division.
* The Phaser 6130 earned a Best Product Award from Macworld Spain.
* Xerox's XMPie PersonalEffect 4.6 was awarded Best of Show in the 1:1 Communications category at On Demand 2009.
* PC World Latin America gave DocuShare 6.5 the Best Integrated Document Solution Award for2009.
* The WorkCentre 7435 won an Outstanding Achievement Award for Energy Efficiency from BLI.
Strong partner
* Xerox was positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services Worldwide”.
* Xerox was named the number one vendor for Document Process Outsourcing and number three for Top 50 Best Managed Global Outsourcing Vendors by the Black Book of Outsourcing.
* Business Solutions Magazine named Xerox the Best Channel Vendor for ECM Hardware.
* Xerox's Workgroup Color Printers were named 2009 Channel Champions from Everything Channel.
* Channel Insider's Bull's Eye Champion Award was given to Xerox's PagePack 3.0 as the Managed Service Enabler of the Year.
The company has also been recognised for diversity, ethics, creating a great workplace, environmental programmes and leadership.
Xerox will showcase its line of award-winning offerings at several industry events in 2010 including MacWorld in San Francisco, FOSE in Washington in the US, AIIM/On Demand in Philadelphia, IPEX in Birmingham in the UK, and Graph Expo in Chicago.
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Bytes Document Solutions
Bytes Document Solutions, previously known as Xerox South Africa, is a R1.8 billion-a-year company made up of three business components:
* The sole authorised Xerox distributor to 24 sub-Saharan countries;
* The largest South African paper merchant through NOR Paper; and
* Africa's leading digital printing and mailing bureau through LaserCom.
Bytes Document Solutions is recognised as a level three contributor as defined by the Department of Trade and Industry's Codes of Good Practice. In addition, Bytes Document Solutions has been recognised as a value-adding supplier, with its customers being able to claim 137.5% of their spend towards their preferential procurement measurement for their own BBEEE status.
Bytes Documents Solutions is a division of Bytes Technology Group South Africa, owned by Altron, with Kagiso Trust Investments as its empowerment partner.
Web site: http://www.bytesdocumentsolutions.co.za
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