ATLANTA, GEORGIA, April 13, 1999 . . . IBM today announced the North American availability of NuOffice, a networked office system based on Lotus Notes Domino that simplifies the transfer of data to and from office equipment.
In addition, the company announced that three major manufacturers—Ricoh, Canon, and Muratec— will ship multifunction peripherals that support the NuOffice system.
NuOffice and its supporting peripherals adhere to the Salutation Architecture, open middleware technology for locating and controlling equipment across the Internet or a company intranet. Once a device has been located, Salutation can facilitate the attachment of the proper device drivers.
With NuOffice, Lotus Notes users can print, fax or scan information to any Salutation-compliant peripheral and the software automatically senses the configuration and loads the necessary drivers. NuOffice peripherals can be locally or remotely attached to the Lotus Notes Domino Server
Mark Bregman, IBM General Manager of Pervasive Computing said, “NuOffice is an ideal solution for large corporate offices and workgroups that transforms ordinary office equipment into intelligent devices on the network. Today’s announcement is also a significant endorsement of the Salutation Architecture. Broad support of this open standard increases the number of devices NuOffice can access.”
IBM NuOffice is a successful product in Japan, along with a family of supporting NuOffice peripherals and softwares from Canon, Fuji Xerox, Mita, Muratec and Ricoh.
A NuOffice user can email a scanned document directly from a fax machine or copier, or scan documents directly into a Notes Data Base. From there the scanned image may be forwarded or routed. Additionally, NuOffice can input to application processes, such as OCR. Incoming faxes and scanned images can be stored in individual mailboxes or in a specific database, allowing the mobile worker to share information with the office. When printing, end users with NuOffice can easily query devices for functions, options, and availability.
In addition, NuOffice automatically manages the task of upgrading, reconfiguring, and removing equipment on the network . NuOffice can discover Salutation equipment locally or remotely. If the equipment can attach to the NuOffice server through a LAN, WAN or Internet, it can reap the benefits of NuOffice. NuOffice provides an interface between the Salutation-enabled devices and the Notes Data Base. This provides simple integration of network peripherals with existing vertical applications that monitor Notes Data Base content.
IBM’s NuOffice will be available in June ’99. Newly compatible Ricoh products include the RICOH Aficio 350/450 digital imaging systems, the AP Series digital black & white and color digital printers. The Ricoh/IBM NuOffice supported products will be available in early 3Q99. Canon intends to make its Image Platform (IP) devices enabled with Salutation Architecture and IBM NuOffice software available in 4Q99. In addition, Murata (Muratec)’s Salutation Fax Server System, including the F-120 fax server and SM-100 server software will be available in June ’99.
IBM is the world’s largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM’s Pervasive Computing unit has responsibility for creating e-business solutions that leverage the new class of connected client devices such as handheld Internet appliances and screenphones. A key part of the team’s mission is furthering the adoption of open industry standards for pervasive computing to help customers easily access and act on information whenever and wherever they may be. IBM can be found on the Web at http://www.ibm.com.
About the Salutation Consortium
The Salutation Consortium is a non-profit corporation focused on providing technologies to improve information interchange, with member organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Member companies include Adobe Systems, Inc., Advanced Peripherals Technologies, Axis Communications, Brother Industries Ltd.,Canon Inc.,Cisco Systems, Inc., Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Fujitsu Limited, Granite Systems, Hewlett-Packard Corp., Hitachi, Ltd., IBM, Kobe Steel, Ltd., Komatsu, Inc., Konica Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Murata Machinery, Ltd., Oki Data Corp., Ricoh Company, Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Seiko Epson Corp., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sharp Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Xerox Corporation.
]]>SAN JOSE, Calif., May 27, 1997: Six member companies of the Salutation Consortium recently announced Salutation-enabled products or announced their intention to provide Salutation-enabled appliances.
Canon, Fuji Xerox, IBM Japan, Mita, Muratec, and Ricoh exhibited Salutation-enabled products at the Consortium booth at Business Show O97, May 13-16 at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center.
These new products support the Salutation vision of a company intranet that automatically detects new peripherals as they get attached, either directly or through remote ports, and makes their functional capabilities available for use. The new products include both hardware models and software applications. Many of them integrate closely with Lotus Notes in a corporate intranet environment.
Technical seminars sponsored by the Salutation Consortium ran concurrently in the Big Sight conference building. Products exhibited at the Business Show will be marketed in the Japanese market. The companies have not indicated their plans for the US market.
The Salutation Consortium has published an open specification that enables an application to locate a particular resource on a network through a broadcast query. The specification is independent of network transport, hardware platform, and operating system software and supports standard Internet and other message formats.
Steve Mills, general manager, IBM Software Solutions, said “Standards such as those developed by the Salutation Consortium ensure that information goes where users want it and when they want it, regardless of what information appliance they happen to be using.”
The Salutation System combines a Canon GP30F digital copier (known as MEDIO 30F) with Salutation-enabled print control and scanning applications to create new network features for a corporate intranet environment based on Lotus Notes.
The scanning application, MEDIO OfficeScan for Salutation, stores documents scanned by the copier directly into Lotus Notes Server. The user can then view the documents from a Notes client or with a web browser. This function works in combination with IBM NuOffice, also announced today. (See below.) The print control application, MEDIO OfficeTerminal for Salutation, automatically notifies the user when a printing job is complete and ready for pickup. From a web browser, the user can determine what features and optional equipment are installed on the copier.
Network Able combines the four functions of copying, faxing, printing and scanning on a network into one machine. The Network Able for Salutation makes full use of the Salutation Architecture for its network functions.
A complete office environment based on Lotus Notes, NuOffice uses the Salutation Architecture to make copiers, facsimile machines, scanners and printers active players on a company network. IBM NuOffice adds intelligence to the scanning function of copiers and fax machines, permitting these devices to input information from paper documents into Lotus Notes. Using NuOffice, a user can email a scanned document directly from a fax machine or copier.
NuOffice enables users to operate office equipment from Lotus Notes, confirming device status and controlling such functions such as high speed printing, sorting and collating.
Salutation-enabled software expands the functions of TME10 NetFinity to provide users with additional control of printers in a PC LAN environment. Users can confirm and change printer settings, control print jobs, and monitor paper supply. This product was previewed in the U.S. at Comdex/Fall I November 1996.
IBM demonstrated an update to the IBM Salutation Manager developer tool kit for Salutation-enabled applications. The toolkit supports Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, and Windows 3.1. It helps developers build devices, services, and applications that take advantage of the Salutation Consortium1s open protocol for locating and controlling Internet devices.
Mita announces the Network Connection Kit for Notes as an option for the Antico 30 plain paper fax. With the kit installed, documents received from other Salutation-enabled devices can be distributed as email automatically to Notes clients on the network. This fax distributing function is also available from the fax using the Subaddress (SUB) signal as defined in ITU-T Recommenda- tion T.30. Furthermore, users can use the Antico 30 as a network scanner/FAX/printer from a Notes desktop.
Muratec announces the upcoming development of Fax server F- 120/F-150 (temporary name), which will conform to the Salutation Architecture. Fax server F-120/F-150 acts as a network fax modem, faxing documents created on a PC. A document received as a fax can be forwarded without an interim printing step, preserving document quality. Users can query the status of a sent fax and determine whether the document has been opened by the recipient.
Ricoh announces a Salutation software package which allows the Imagio MF-P digital copiers to be used as network printers/scanners in a Lotus Notes intranet environment. With Salutation support, each function of the Imagio copier (copy, fax, print, scan) can be addressed individually for maximum user convenience. A Lotus Notes user can, for instance, have the copier send a document or scanned image as Lotus Notes mail directly to another user1s desktop. Ricoh provides supporting print server software and scanner server software.
The Salutation Consortium is a non-profit corporation with member organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Member companies include APTi, Axis Communications, Brother, Canon, Casio, Cisco, Eastman Kodak, Fuji Xerox, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Integrated Systems, IBM, Iwatsu, Justsystem, Kobe Steel, Konica, Lexmark, Matsushita, Microware Systems, Minolta, Mita, Mitsubishi, Murata (Muratec), Novell, Oki Data, Ricoh, Rios Systems, Sanyo, Seiko Epson, Sharp, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, and Xerox.
]]>SAN JOSE, Calif., November 3, 1997– STS Consulting, LLC, Highland, Utah, has announced the Salutation API Simulator, a software design tool for developers building Salutation device-to-device communications into applications. The Salutation Architecture is a protocol for locating and controlling computers, consumer devices, and office equipment across the Internet or a company intranet.
The API Simulator is a Windows 95 program that simulates Salutation Architecture API calls. It is a learning tool for developers designing these APIs into products and services. The API Simulator lets a developer mock up a Salutation API interface on a Windows 95 PC. When the developer points at an API “button” the API Simulator demonstrates the function provided and shows the specific call attributes the API requires. The API Simulator also indicates when API calls are not to be used and simulates responses from Salutation-enabled devices.
“The Salutation Consortium is working on several fronts to speed up design-ins and reduce development costs for adding Salutation’s market-ready features to office devices and applications,” said Robert F. Pecora, managing director of the Consortium. “The API Simulator is a cost-effective way to learn how to use the Salutation API calls. In addition, developers will soon have access to a PC-based Port-of-Entry module that enables existing office devices to function in a Salutation network. We’re also funding the development of a Reference Model, prewritten code that can be built into a product directly to make it Salutation-compatible.”
Single user licenses for the Salutation API Simulator are $150. A site license for up to 100 users is available for $1500. An 15-day evaluation version of the API Simulator is available at no cost. All versions are available now for download. Full information on the evaluation program and licensing terms is available at /simulate.htm.
The Salutation API Simulator uses a standard Windows 95 user interface. It will run on an Intel PC with 8MB RAM (16 MB recommended) and 3MB free space on the hard disk.
The API Simulator works in conjunction with the Salutation Architecture, which is available from the Salutation Consortium at /ordspec.htm. There are no licensing or royalty charges for use of the Architecture.
The Salutation Architecture is a protocol for locating and controlling computers, consumer devices, and office equipment across the Internet or a company intranet. Salutation allows an application to send a network query to locate a device, application or service. Once a device has been located, Salutation can attach the proper device drivers, allowing maximum possible use of the device and its characteristics.
Intranets build the need for Salutation features by making more peripherals available to the desktop, and by supporting mobile network attachments. The Salutation specification is independent of network transport, hardware platform, and operating system software and supports standard Internet and other message formats.
Senior Technical Staff (STS) Consulting, LLC, based in Highland, Utah, assists companies with product design and development, business case analysis, and training in internetworking and interconnectivity. Founder and CEO Robert Pascoe is an original organizer of the Salutation Consortium, responsible for contributing both to its technical work and to the recruiting efforts that led to 19 companies joining prior to public announcement of the Consortium’s work. Pascoe’s role grew out of his work at IBM, where he held leadership positions in technical and marketing areas. He holds 15 U.S. patents in various information processing disciplines.
The Salutation Consortium is a non-profit corporation with member organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Member companies include APTi, Axis Communications, Brother, Canon, Casio, Cisco, Eastman Kodak, Fuji Xerox, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Integrated Systems, IBM, Justsystem, Kobe Steel, Komatsu, Konica, Lexmark, Matsushita, Microware Systems, Minolta, Mita, Mitsubishi, Murata (Muratec), Novell, Oki Data, Ricoh, Rios Systems, Sanyo, Seiko Epson, Sharp, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, WhetStone, and Xerox.
]]>ATLANTA, April 12, 1999 – Ricoh Corporation, the leading manufacturer of digital black and white and color copiers, is extending its Image Communication vision to include compatible solutions for IBM’s Lotus Notes environment being displayed here at AIIM, Booth #1335, in the Georgia World Congress Convention Center.
Newly compatible Ricoh products include the RICOH Aficio 350/450 digital imaging systems, the AP Series digital black & white and color digital printers. The Ricoh/IBM NuOffice supported products will be available in early 3Q99.
The combination of Ricoh’s award-winning line of digital imaging systems with the Lotus Domino and NuOffice software will give office and mobile professionals an easy to use solution for bridging paper and electronic documents. Ricoh’s strategic vision to create office environments in which anyone can easily create, modify and process all forms of data such as text, numbers, photographs, illustrations, and sound in their simplest form — the image in order to communicate without limits.
NuOffice software enables Lotus Domino, the industry leading web server software from Lotus Development Corp., an IBM subsidiary, to support the Salutation Architecture, which Ricoh endorses. The Salutation Architecture provides a universal means to access and manage a range of devices, including Ricoh products. It allows users to communicate information and images among any Lotus Notes-enabled networked computer or office peripheral, whether in the office or on the road.
The NuOffice solution represents the next generation of business communications for Ricoh Digital Products as well as additional fulfillment of the Image Communication strategy. In the future, Ricoh will continue to deliver such “appliance-like” products that foster free data exchange through innovative products that link computer data and image information in a way that is easily understood and processed.
“NuOffice allows us to offer new communications solutions to customers that utilize Ricoh technology and Lotus Domino programming,” said Yuji Koyanagi, Director, Document Solutions & Peripheral Products Marketing, Corporate Marketing Group for Ricoh Corporation. “This solution essentially turns any communications device into an intelligent peripheral, giving users more control over their documents and furthering the concept of Image Communication.”
Ajei Gopal, director of technology for pervasive computing at IBM, says: “Ricoh’s support of the Salutation Architecture is a strong endorsement of the power of standards to enable customers to seamlessly link their technologies. IBM’s Lotus Domino and NuOffice software, coupled with Ricoh’s digital solutions, give users easier access to the information they need to be productive.”
Acting as a “central warehouse” for the transfer of information, IBM’s NuOffice is both a production tool and a convenience tool that will further Ricoh’s vision of offering the most leading-edge communications solutions. For example, NuOffice allows users to send documents to printers and other peripherals, in addition to a PC. NuOffice also allows scanned documents to be imported to a Lotus Domino database to access and distribute information whether printing or sending email.
“NuOffice is the ideal solution for large corporate offices and workgroups with many mobile or telecommuting user.” Koyanagi said. “It makes the sending and retrieval of information practically automatic, thus nurturing better communications and eliminating the potential for downtime.
More About Image Communication
Image Communication is not only Ricoh’s new strategy, but it is Ricoh’s new way of viewing the work environment. The new office model is one of unprecedented flexibility, and therefore, requires solutions that mirror this flexibility.
Ricoh’s future product introductions and office solutions are driven by its new Image Communication strategy, and will enable individuals to work from a home, mobile or corporate office while sharing, transferring and storing information through a central database.
Ricoh’s Image Communication strategy is supported by five product and service concepts:
Future Ricoh products will reflect Ricoh’s Image Communication initiative and create a truly digital information exchange. These products will allow all forms of information including text, numbers, pictures and voice to be connected to a central information storage unit, allowing information to be manipulated or transmitted to any location for further use or output to paper.
n addition, Ricoh is reinforcing its commitment to the environment by creating a paper-managed environment where paper is minimized by automatically converting information to electronic data as a standard usage form.
About the Consortium
The Salutation Consortium is a non-profit corporation with member organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Member companies include Adobe Systems, APTi, Axis Communications, Brother, Canon, Cisco, Fuji Xerox, Fujitsu, Granite Systems, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Kobe Steel, Komatsu, Konica, Matsushita, Mita, Mitsubishi, Murata (Muratec), Okamura, OkiData, Ricoh, Sanyo, Seiko, Epson, Sharp, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, and Xerox.
The Consortium’s web site is http://.
About Ricoh Corporation
Ricoh Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 63-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment with 1997 sales in excess of $10.6 billion.
Ricoh Corporation is a diversified office equipment and electronics provider. The company is a pioneer in the development of computer-connected and digital multifunctional document systems, is a leader in the fastest-growing color copier market and is a premier supplier of black & white copiers, facsimile machines, printers and scanners.
Ricoh has received the 1998 Energy Star Imaging Equipment Partner of the Year Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EPA’s highest industry award. Ricoh was chosen for its commitment to the environment and its extraordinary leadership role in promoting and producing energy efficient copiers, facsimile machines, printers and scanners.
Information about Ricoh’s complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.ricoh-usa.com.
Ricoh Contacts : Alicia Dollard, Jay Kolbe
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]]>SAN JOSE, Calif., February 3, 1999–Ricoh Corporation announced this month that it has adopted IBM’s NuOffice document management software for its digital imaging systems. According to Robert F. Pecora, managing director of the Salutation Consortium, NuOffice is the first major product in the United States to incorporate the Consortium’s technology for network plug-and-play interoperability.
IBM’s NuOffice, based on Lotus Notes, provides a complete office system for large customer sites with many mobile or telecommuting users. NuOffice will be compatible with a variety of Ricoh’s digital products by the end of 1999, according to the Ricoh announcement.
NuOffice is already a successful product in Japan, along with a family of supporting peripherals and software from Canon, Fuji Xerox, Mita, Muratec, and Ricoh. Market momentum around the NuOffice effort has resulted in Fuji Xerox adopting the Salutation Architecture as a company standard for networking office automation equipment.
The Salutation Architecture is open middleware technology for locating and controlling equipment across the Internet or a company intranet. Once a device has been located, Salutation can facilitate the attachment of the proper device drivers, allowing maximum possible use of the device and its characteristics. Salutation reduces LAN administration by autoregistering new devices on the network and by supporting ad hoc discovery, with no need for enterprise-wide directories.
NuOffice Based on Salutation Architecture
The NuOffice office system includes Salutation extensions to Lotus Notes that enable users to print, scan, fax, and email without concern for device drivers or directories. The NuOffice user can send documents to printers and other peripherals, rather than only to a PC. The user can receive fax information as email and send email to fax machines. Running on Lotus Notes Domino Server and Lotus Notes Client, NuOffice allows a document received from a peripheral, for example, a scanner or fax, to be imported into a Notes database. Additionally, a NuOffice user can access and distribute information right from a peripheral device, without opening a laptop, logging in to a workstation, or dialing a phone number.
“This announcement underscored the momentum Salutation is gaining in the market. Salutation technology is already included in the flagship product lines from several major manufacturers. The Ricoh/IBM product follows an announcement made last September that Xerox intends to add Salutation Architecture support to its flagship Document Centre family of digital multifunction office systems. Salutation is helping vendors deliver a unified system for scanning, document management, e-mail, messaging, fax, and distributed printing,” said Pecora.
About the Consortium
The Salutation Consortium is a non-profit corporation with member organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Member companies include Adobe Systems, APTi, Axis Communications, Brother, Canon, Cisco, Fuji Xerox, Fujitsu, Granite Systems, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Kobe Steel, Komatsu, Konica, Matsushita, Mita, Mitsubishi, Murata (Muratec), Okamura, Oki Data, Ricoh, Sanyo, Seiko Epson, Sharp, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, and Xerox.
]]>SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 1997 A new version of the IBM Salutation Manager, a software toolkit for the Salutation Architecture, adds support for Windows 95 and Windows NT. The IBM Salutation Manager toolkit helps developers build devices, services, and applications that take advantage of the Salutation Consortium s open protocol for locating and controlling Internet devices.
The IBM Salutation Manager provides developers a source code reference model for the Salutation protocols. The protocols sharply increase the interoperability of network peripherals, office machines, applications, and services. A user, for example, can broadcast a query and locate a particular network resource such as a color copier or a printer with a legal-size paper tray. The Salutation Architecture is independent of network transport, hardware platform, and operating system software.
“The IBM toolkit hides the complexity of Salutation protocols from the developer and makes it easy to add information-exchange features to office machines and other types of Internet appliances,” said Mary Hill, managing director of the Consortium.
Implementations of the IBM Salutation Manager are also available for Windows 3.1 and OS/2. Source code for the toolkit is available to developers who want to port the Salutation Manager to other environments. Using the IBM Salutation Manager as a service broker, network devices, applications, and services can discover and utilize one another’s capabilities via Salutation protocols on NetBIOS and TCP/IP. Developers can find more information about licenses for IBM s Salutation Manager by contacting Richard J. Osterman, Salutation Project Manager at IBM.
A new Web-based LAN management software product, NetCube for NetFinity V1.0, is the first commercial software based on the Salutation Architecture. NetCube for NetFinity V1.0 was announced January 29 for the Japanese market. IBM demonstrated a prototype in the Salutation Consortium booth at Comdex/Fall last November. Plans have not yet been announced for a North American version.
NetCube software builds HTML files to represent Salutation capabilities for access via a Web browser. In this way, system management capabilities can be extended to Salutation-enabled fax machines, printers, or other devices that are not equipped with NetFinity client software. Using NetCube for NetFinity, a user can control and manage Salutation-enabled devices from any personal computer running a Web browser. The user, for example, can view the status of printer jobs and receive notification when a printer is out of toner or paper. NetFinity manages Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2 and Novell NetWare in a multiprotocol, heterogeneous environment.
The Salutation Consortium is a non-profit corporation with member organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Member companies include APTi, Axis Communications, Brother, Canon, Casio, Eastman Kodak, Fuji Xerox, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Integrated Systems, IBM, Iwatsu, JustSystems, Kobe Steel, Konica, Lexmark, Matsushita, Microware Systems, Minolta, Mita, Mitsubishi, Murata (Muratec), Novell, Oki Data, Ricoh, Rios Systems, Sanyo, Seiko Epson, Sharp, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, and Xerox.
]]>SOMERS, N.Y., May 8, 1997… IBM is among several companies announcing products today that support and build momentum for the Salutation Consortium’s open standard for locating and controlling Internet devices to facilitate information exchange. The introduction of IBM NuOffice Version 1.0 has expanded the ability to share information locally and remotely for Lotus Domino** and Notes** users, whether they are in the office or on the road.
IBM NuOffice gives users of Lotus Notes clients access to a wide range of information appliances such as online copiers and scanners, whether they are attached directly to a local Lotus Domino Server, or connected remotely through mobile computing access technologies. It also offers the Domino information workers new information capture, storage, and retrieval techniques.
IBM NuOffice is one of the planned software offerings that will be based on the IBM Salutation Manager, announced earlier this year. Using the IBM Salutation Manager enables the majority of the world’s PCs to more readily communicate with peripherals, office machines, applications and services across the Internet.
In addition to IBM, five other Salutation Consortium member companies today either announced Salutation**** enabled products or announced their intention to provide Salutation enabled appliances. They include Canon Inc. and Canon Sales Co., Inc., Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Murata Machinery, Ltd. and Ricoh Company, Ltd.
“We live in a mobile society that increasingly relies on instantaneous communication. Enabling Lotus Domino and Notes users through IBM NuOffice, is the first step in providing information access from hand-held computers, PDA’s, pagers, cellular and digital phones,” said Steve Mills, general manager, IBM Software Solutions. “Standards such as those developed by the Salutation Consortium ensure that information goes where users want it and when they want it, regardless of what information appliance they happen to be using.”
“Domino users are looking for ways to stay in lock-step with expanding networks,” said Steve Sayre, Lotus vice president of marketing. “NuOffice will simplify this process by enabling quick detection of new peripherals as they get attached, directly or through remote ports, to the Network, establish the peripherals functional capabilities and then make them available for use by the Notes client user.”
IBM NuOffice enables Lotus Domino and Notes users to:
Announcements by other Salutation Consortium members include:
All of these products are initially available in Japan only. Additional Information
The first release of IBM NuOffice is available today in Japan with U.S. availability planned for later this year. Version 1 will support:
Future releases of IBM NuOffice will focus on providing worldwide availability, adding support for Windows NT** as a server platform and providing support for Salutation enabled facsimile devices. About the Salutation Consortium
IBM is a member of the Salutation Consortium, a 30+ member non-profit corporation. The consortium develops The Salutation Architecture, which eases the exchange of information regarding Internet peripherals and devices, and is independent of network transport, hardware platform and operating system software. The IBM Salutation Manager, is IBM’s implementation of The Salutation Architecture.
The Salutation Consortium membership includes APTi, Axis Communications AB, Canon Inc., Casio, Cisco Systems, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi, Ltd., Integrated Systems, Inc., IBM, Iwatsu Electric, Justsystem Corporation, Kobe Steel, Konica Corporation, Lexmark International, Inc., Matsushita, Microware Systems Corporation, Minolta Co. Ltd., Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Murata, Machinery, Ltd. Novell, Inc., Oki Data, Inc., Ricoh Company, Ltd., Rios Systems Company, Ltd., Sanyo Electric Company, Ltd., Seiko-Epson Corporation, Sharp Company, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba Corporation and Xerox Corporation. About IBM
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LAKE SUCCESS, NY, April 13, 1999 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., the industry leader in networked business equipment,today announced Salutation architecture support for its developing office technology, known as Image Platform (IP). IP allows for the transparent sharing of paper and electronic-based information over networks. The integration of Canon devices into the Salutation architecture, enables those devices to support scanning, faxing, and distributed printing through their use of NuOffice, a document management system from IBM that works with Lotus Notes Domino.
Salutation Architecture is an open standard for locating and controlling scanners, printers, copiers, fax machines, multifunction devices and other peripherals across the Internet, corporate LANs or Intranets. The architecture eliminates the traditional limitations posed by mobile computing by allowing remote users to access and send information stored on their desktops, regardless of form or content. The technology also reduces LAN administration by auto-registering new devices and supporting discovery, eliminating the need to maintain enterprise-wide directories.
Canon is a member corporation of the Salutation Consortium, which developed the architecture that is endorsed by over 30 organizations in the technology sector.
“We are extremely pleased to announce that our future office technology seamlessly integrates within IBM NuOffice and Lotus Domino environments through our joint support of Salutation architecture,” said Ryoichi Bamba, senior vice president and general manager, Marketing, Canon Imaging Systems Group. “We think the Salutation architecture will bring great benefits to users and to the LAN administrator, by reducing the total cost of administration and facilitating equal access to information in all its forms.”
Canon IP devices will integrate with Lotus Domino web server through standard Ethernet network connections and the Salutation protocol. Through IBM NuOffice, an office system software package containing Salutation extensions to Lotus Notes, endusers can scan, print, fax, and email without any concerns for device drivers or directories. Additional benefits of NuOffice include the ability to import scanned documents into Lotus Notes email format or a Domino.doc database.
Added Dr. Mark Bregman, general manager, IBM Pervasive Computing Division, “By combining the power of Lotus Notes Domino with Canon IP devices, Canon can provide its customers with state-of-the-art information management systems that are intuitive, flexible, and migrate easily into their existing operations.”
Canon IP devices will be on display at the Canon Booth (#2916) at the AIIM Conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia April 13-15. United States beta testing of Canon IP devices enabled with Salutation Architecture and IBM NuOffice software is expected in the second half of 1999.
Canon U.S.A., Inc. is an industry leader in professional and consumer imaging solutions and a top patent-holder of imaging technologies. The company’s comprehensive product line includes networked multifunction devices; digital and analog copiers (color and black and white); printers, scanners, optical filing systems, and facsimile machines; camcorders, cameras and lenses; and semiconductor, broadcast and medical equipment. Canon employs 12,000 people at more than 30 facilities throughout North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
IBM is the world’s largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM’s Pervasive Computing unit has responsibility for creating e-business solutions that leverage the new class of connected client devices such as handheld Internet appliances and screenphones. A key part of the team’s mission is furthering the adoption of open industry standards for pervasive computing to help customers easily access and act on information whenever and wherever they may be. IBM can be found on the Web at http://www.ibm.com.
Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (EFI) products are distributed by the company’s blue-chip OEM partners. Fiery ColorServers and Fiery Driven color printers are installed worldwide in leading corporations, advertising agencies, graphic design studios and print-for-pay businesses. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in San Mateo, CA, the company employs more than 570 people and has 24 worldwide sales offices. Additional information regarding EFI may be obtained by calling the company directly at (650) 326-8600, or through public sources, including the company’s SEC filings. Electronics For Imaging may also be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.efi.com.
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