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Canon India is helping the companies in achieving maximum digitisation by offering complete digitisation services to them.
The service includes scanning and digitising the documents which enter the organisation putting them in the work flow, indexing the archives and storing them.
Speaking about this, Alok Bharadwaj, executive vice president, Canon India said, "Canon is expanding its domain from pure printing services to digitisation services. India still is analog country where more focus is given on print and paper based documentation where rest of the world is modernising. We are expanding our domain from printing to digitisation. Canon has huge opportunities in this sector and such services has not been offered by any other player. We is eyeing over 150 companies these services. Our proposition is that digitisation is something that should be outsourced."
Canon claims that digitisation service can reduce 25 per cent of the printing cost and help in printing optimisation. The hardware required for this is provided by Canon while software is is provided by its Austria based firm 'Therefore' which recently acquired by Canon.
Bharadwaj added, "We are expanding our customer base to banking and insurance, customer data, vendor data and various other sectors. Currently, managed document services already constitutes Rs 100 crore of our business and in this financial year, the new digitisation services is expected reach Rs 10 crore mark."
Canon is eyeing Pune based IT, automobile and manufacturing companies to who have multiple usage of documentation like designs, drawings, research and planning.
Commenting on Canon's camera business, Bharadwaj said that Compact Digital Camera and SLR Cameras are important drivers in B2C segment. Compact cameras in comparison saw 32 per cent decline in sales, while its DSLR will see major growth in future. However, DSLR segment on the other side is expected to become 80 per cent of our images business in next two years. Currently the ratio of SLR to Digital Camera is 60:40.
