Vasion has broadened its focus beyond print solutions into areas such as e-forms, digital signatures, and document scanning. The company is doubling down on its experience serving over 14,000 customers across the globe, scaling its operations and investing in a partner ecosystem to become a channel-led organisation
Vasion’s mission is to make digital transformation (DX) attainable for everyone. The company has a strong heritage serving large global organisations with large IT teams who use its platform to streamline business processes and save many hours of valuable time, but according to Simon Hill, Managing Director, EMEA & APAC, it’s not just about those larger organisations or large IT teams.
“Across industries, organisations fall into two camps. Those with dedicated IT teams and generous budgets who are confidently fast-tracking DX initiatives and then there are smaller businesses and charities, who often struggle to adopt modern workflows,” he explained.
“That gap can slow growth for resellers who can’t offer affordable, end-to-end solutions. Our mission is to democratise digital transformation, ensuring every organisation can seamlessly connect data, processes, systems, and people – that’s what we mean when we say we want to make digital transformation attainable for everyone.”
One platform, infinite possibilities
Vasion has a global footprint and serves in excess of 14,000 customers worldwide. It is now leveraging its deep expertise spanning enterprise and SMB environments to empower MPS resellers to unlock new revenue streams with its Vasion Automate platform that unites printing, scanning, workflow automation, e-signature and cloud storage.
Vasion Automate is a single AI-powered platform that supports organisations’ digital transformation by enabling efficient information capture, automating manual tasks, and transforming workflows to enhance productivity and operational agility.
Vasion Automate enables customers to manage their printing environments – including centralised and decentralised print, application print, and specialist print (i.e. label printers), and add in the ability to create forms, workflows and signature on the back-end with the same product.
“So if a document needs to be signed, the end-user doesn’t have to step out of the solution, it can be signed in the same place, on a single screen, and then pushed through to the next stage of the workflow,” Hill explained, adding: “And, with the latest version they can do that from their mobile phone – whether it’s an electronic document or a paper one, it covers the entire workflow from capture, e-signature, document management, right through to cloud storage and retrieval. And it works with any third- party system; it doesn’t have to be Vasion storage.”
Importantly, Vasion utilises the latest AI tools from AWS, for example, to speed up those processes, to increase the accuracy, and to ensure security standards are met.
Hill points out that this is a true cloud-native solution and does not require any on-premise infrastructure. “All features live in the cloud, there’s no servers to install, patch or replace. A charity we worked with in Ghana onboarded within hours on a basic internet link, illustrating how digital transformation for everyone becomes reality,” he explained.
The Vasion advantage
There are, says Hill, many reasons why MPS resellers should look to partner with Vasion. “With Vasion Automate, partners can unlock new revenue streams in document scanning, workflow automation and beyond – while simultaneously ensuring every customer or prospect, regardless of size or budget, can confidently embrace digital transformation.”
Resellers and their end customers can achieve 70% faster time to value, thanks to low-code/no-code technologies which enable the platform to be implemented without needing high level IT tech support.
“Typically, systems like this would demand heavy professional services support to get up and running, but our technology can be easily configured, it doesn’t need a new scope of work created just to add another workflow onto the system for example. There’s no requirement to upskill from a reseller’s perspective it’s true ‘set-and-forget’ cloud-native deployment with automatic updates and of course, enterprise-grade security,” he explained.
Streamlined procurement
Many organisations have multiple systems to support their business from print management to capture, e-signature, ECM products and cloud storage. “With that comes multiple procurement processes, licensing costs and bills,” Hill said, adding: “There’s also the time IT have to spend trying to integrate and manage all of those different tools, train new starters on how to use them, and deal with helpdesk requests.
“Vasion provides a single platform that does everything and is billed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS). So, there’s no need to manage multiple contracts and multiple vendors and wasting time trying to make systems speak to each other when they’re not inter-operable.”
Vasion Automate combines all of these elements in one single platform. Plus, it’s easy to install, maintain, and manage from a single admin console. End-users can seamlessly find and install their own printers and manage their print queues through an easy to use portal, view, create, and publish one or multiple-step workflows, and via simplified scanning capabilities, efficiently convert paper documents into digital files.
“All of these efficiencies translate into stronger margins, simpler renewal cycles and stickier customer relationships,” Hill said.
Investing in a partner ecosystem
Vasion is investing in a partner ecosystem designed around reseller success. Vasion can help resellers extend their service offering to include best-in-class cloud print management and digitisation tools.
Partners can future-proof their business with a comprehensive solution that automates workflows, captures data, and simplifies print management in one platform, leverage ISO 27001:2013 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified solutions to help customers stay compliant and better secure their critical data, and thanks to Vasion’s partnerships with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and more, deliver robust SaaS solutions on customers’ preferred cloud service.
Vasion Automate – key features
- Print management. Eliminate print servers, seamlessly deploy printers without complicated scripts and GPOs, manage print queues, off-network printing, mobile print, and secure pull-printing, from a single web-based console.
- Simplified information capture. Scan from an MFP, scanner or mobile device, utilise intelligent document capture with AI, OCR, and ICR technology, to quickly digitise data, streamline data extraction, and automatically categorise it all.
- E-forms. Build fully customisable forms tailored to business needs via an intuitive drag-and-drop form builder, automatically convert existing PDFs into fillable web forms, gather and securely share data with existing applications as required.
- Workflow automation. Create workflows that remove manual processes, repetitive tasks and unnecessary delays, eliminate data silos and ensure information moves efficiently across various parts of the business.
- Content automation. Users can access all documents and data in one secure location, quickly find what they need with natural language search capabilities and automatically maintain audit trails.
- E-signature. The Signature feature manages the entire document lifecycle with a robust eSignature solution, enabling users to sign and send documents from any location on any device.
