Sharp Steps into Color Light Production, Establishes Cloud Presence at 2012 National Dealer Meeting

 By Jessica Schiffenhaus, Research Editor, August 1, 2012

Celebrating its 100th year in business and 40th year in the document business, Sharp held its 2012 national dealer meeting on July 15-18 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel in Dallas, Texas. This year’s highlights included the announcement of two new high-volume color models, three light-production monochrome units and the big player: Sharp’s first device in the color production space.

The company also announced its first cloud platform: The Sharp B2B Cloud Portal, from which dealers can access and purchase cloud solutions from Sharp and Partner Program members and manage them via a unified license management console. Along with the portal, Sharp introduced two Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings of its own: Collaboration and Document Management Service and Sharp Remote Device Manager as a service.