The Ricoh(TM) Digital Camera Division and ActivePhoto today announced an alliance to create an "instant visual communications" productivity channel for mobile professionals and in-the-field photographers. Based on the groundbreaking Ricoh RDC-i700(TM) digital camera and communications tool, the alliance provides a fast, wireless infrastructure to transmit images directly from the field to a secure account on the ActivePhoto website. ActivePhoto's commercial photo destination provides tools for intelligent image management, viewing, reporting, collaboration and archiving.
By increasing productivity, the end-to-end solution creates dramatic cost and time savings compared with traditional image-related workflow processes. It is ideal for vertical markets such as insurance, transportation, retail, hospitality, real estate and construction. Users add notes, captions and critical contextual data on the camera and then send their images instantly, from the field to ActivePhoto's secure website, using Ricoh's single-click QuickSend feature.
"ActivePhoto adds incredible value to the RDC-i700, enabling commercial customers to streamline and expedite in-the-field processes," said Jeff Lengyel, wireless imaging manager of the Ricoh Digital Camera Division. "It lets users take full advantage of high-speed wireless connections without the anchor of a notebook computer, making instant Internet imaging and collaboration possible anytime, from anywhere. ActivePhoto's field-tested wireless systems are revolutionizing the way people do business."
"Ricoh's innovative RDC-i700 opens a world of possibilities for professionals in vertical industries like insurance, transportation, construction and real estate," added Tom Riley, CEO of ActivePhoto. "By combining our complementary value-added service with Ricoh's state-of-the-art commercial camera, we help users increase efficiency, accelerate workflow and centralize mobile imaging processes. Together, we shorten image-related workflow processes from days to hours."
As part of the alliance, ActivePhoto will bundle its image management service with the camera and sell the complete solution directly to prosumers and professionals. The ActivePhoto system automates image capturing, filing, publishing, and hosting processes. At standard resolutions, it takes less than a minute to send a picture to the ActivePhoto site.
The Ricoh RDC-i700 is itself far more than a digital camera. The 3.34-megapixel, Internet-ready device captures crisp images and video, sends and receives e-mail including attachments, sends images of documents directly to fax machines, surfs the Web, creates image-rich documents and HTML files, and can FTP data and images directly from the camera.
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