Respected Analyst Firm Selects Toshiba’s Elevate™ as Outstanding MFP Customization Tool

December 11, 2018 (Lake Forest, California) – Keypoint Intelligence affirms Toshiba America Business Solutions’ commitment to innovation by presenting a 2019 Buyers Lab Pick Award to the tech company’s Elevate™ MFP customization platform.

Toshiba’s new Elevate 2.0 is a cloud-based platform for personalizing the user interface of Toshiba’s e-STUDIO™ multifunction printers (MFPs) by adding functionality, automating common and sophisticated tasks, promoting commonly used features and incorporating the customer’s branding and taxonomy on a fully customized front panel.

A key new feature of the Elevate 2.0 is Elevate Composer. Elevate Composer enables even non-technical personnel to configure and design a custom-tailored MFP in minutes.

Toshiba’s Elevate Composer secured a 2019 Buyers Lab Pick Award – the industry’s premier accolade – as Outstanding MFP Customization Tool by meeting the following criteria:

Impressive ease of use as Elevate Composer features custom UIs and associated workflow shortcuts through prebuilt templates;
Capability to streamline work processes while reducing time spent searching through menus and settings;
Allows resellers to tailor a Toshiba e-STUDIO MFP for a given client’s specific needs.
Themes and timesavers tailored for key business processes (accounts payable, operations and human resources, for example) and vertical industries;
“Elevate Composer is a simple, yet elegant solution that enables Toshiba partners to deliver MFPs that are truly customized to each customer’s needs,” said Keypoint Intelligence Director of Solutions Analysis Jamie Bsales. “It enhances the value proposition of the hardware, making it an integral part of a customer’s business processes.”

“Receiving the Buyers Lab Pick Award for Elevate Composer is an incredible honor for everyone at Toshiba associated with our latest UI,” stated Toshiba America Business Solutions Chief Marketing Executive Bill Melo. “Elevate Composer presents our reseller community with the capability to personalize an e-STUDIO MFP to meet the specific workflow needs of each client. This level of customization enables ends users to perform often complex tasks at the touch of a button.”

Buyers Lab Document Imaging Software Picks stand alone in the industry and are hard-earned awards as they are based on rigorous testing, including evaluation of key attributes such as features, usability, and value. Each product that passes our lab test earns Buyers Lab’s Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze rating, with the best performers qualifying as Pick contenders.

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About Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.

Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS) provides multifunction printers, managed document services and digital signage for businesses of all sizes throughout the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. The company’s award-winning e-STUDIO™ copiers and printers provide quality performance with the security businesses require.

Complementing its hardware offering is a full suite of document workflow, capture and security services including Encompass™, the company’s industry-acclaimed Managed Print Services program. Encompass enables clients to print less and optimize workflow while improving energy efficiency.

TABS’ Ellumina™ digital signage offering includes all of the hardware, software and services needed to implement dynamic and interactive digital signage installations.

TABS provides content creation and management, displays, integration, installation and project management services as well as financing for solutions ranging from a single screen to the biggest arenas and stadiums. For additional information, please visit business.toshiba.com. Follow TABS on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.