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15
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
SALES OF NETWORK SYSTEM SOLUTIONS
( Billions of Yen)
N ETWORK S YSTEM S OLUTIONS
15
PERFORM ANCE
Ricoh boosted sales of useware, document
management software, and other solutions
businesses to help custom ers m inimize their
total costs of ownership. At the same time,
our sales of PCs and servers were down dur-
ing the term , as com panies suppressed their
inform ation technology spending. Segm ent
sales thus decreased 4.6%, to ¥197.4 billion
( $1,674 million) . This represented 11.3% of
net sales, down 1.1 percentage point from a
year earlier.
HIGHLIGHTS
Several system s were very popular during the
term. They included Ridoc Desk 2000 per-
sonal docum ent m anagement software and
Ridoc Docum ent Server Pro ( Ver. 2) , a docu-
ment management application for large
offices that features enhanced operability.
The Ridoc Web Navigator browser portal
platform for the Ridoc Docum ent System
also did well, as did other imaging equip-
ment in the Ridoc series.
We strengthened our information
security business. For example,TrustyCabinet
UX V1 server software, which safeguards elec-
tronic document originals, was certified
under the JIS X5070 standard in fiscal 2003.
In North America, we developed Global
Scan. This allows large corporations to use
MFPs to m ake their paper docum ents elec-
tronic.
OUTLOOK
We will continue to bring out software linked
with networked equipment as part of efforts
to reinforce our solutions business, and will
suggest ways for customers to build optim al
systems.
This segment includes PCs and servers, network systems, networking
software, applications software, and services and support.
Acxiom Corpor at ion, a leading provider of cust omer and information management solutions based in Lit t le Rock, Arkansas,
uses Ricoh GlobalScan, which t urns it s Aficio MFPs into scanners t hat r out e digital documents over its net wor k.
Ricoh’s GlobalScan soft ware server is the platfor m for all
alliance t echnologies, processing, managing, and dist rib-
uting hard copy document s in elect ronic form. GlobalScan
is for document -int ensive office envir onments and easily
int egrates with exist ing mail infrastruct ures t o signifi-
cantly boost workgr oup product ivity.