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TALKING BUSINESS TALKING BUSINESS A brief about Kodak Alaris PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF TECHNOLOGY Kodak Alaris was created in September 2013 after spinning off from Eastman Kodak Company. We are passionate about using technology to transform organisations and improve people’s lives across the planet. From our document scanners and intelligent state-of-the-art software and services that power some of the world’s largest companies, to our photographic paper production, printing kiosks and suite of consumer apps, we’re on a mission to unlock the power of images and information for the world. Intelligent CIO talks to Gregoire de Clercq, EAMER Marketing Director, Kodak Alaris Information Management, about how Kodak Alaris are simplifying the management of digital information and targeting solutions to drive business growth amongst today’s data chaos. We push the boundaries of technology and help our customers make sense of and exploit the ever-expanding volume of data that is the hallmark of the 21st century. The Information Management division of Kodak Alaris was set up to help organisations deliver the right information to the right people at the right time and across the right channels, with an essential role for intelligent document recognition, business processes automation and intelligent information management overall. Today, at least 90% of business data – approximately 35 Zettabytes – is unstructured. By 2020, we will be able to fill 8 trillion DVDs with new data each year. How is Kodak Alaris relevant in this age of digital transformation? Digital transformation is an ongoing and accelerating wave. Early 2016, Kodak Alaris Information Management, a global provider of information management solutions, started a brand repositioning project. The overarching theme revolves around the challenges that all businesses face with digital transformation. Dealing with digital information can be complex and chaotic, leading to a loss of productivity and efficiency. From the preparation of documents, to the capture of information from paper, to the routing of data into a business process, to finally collecting and dealing with the hard copy documents after scanning. Not to 28 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com www.intelligentcio.com Gregoire de Clercq, EAMER Marketing Director, Kodak Alaris Information Management INTELLIGENTCIO 29