| | April 20198CIOReviewKodak Alaris was formed nearly four years ago as a spin-off from photo imaging giant Eastman Kodak Company (EKC). The Kodak brand is used under perpetual licence from Eastman Kodak Company, and Kodak Alaris is a completely independent company, not a division of Eastman Kodak. We have retained much of the manufacturing and overall business expertise amassed over decades of conducting business worldwide. Our heritage in imaging science forms the basis of the expertise we demonstrate today, from our award-winning range of document scanners and information management solutions, to our photo retail business, to our consumer and professional photographic products. We exist to take the complexity out of capturing and sharing images and information.To compete in today's digital economy, and to offer the world class products and services our customers demand, we knew we had to offer a broader, more extensible product set. The world is changing rapidly, and the firms that keep pace with these changes will win in the marketplace. For us, this means adopting a lean, start-up approach to accelerate innovation. It's about delivering new offerings rapidly, scaling up and down quickly, and most of all, building a cloud-first software solutions portfolio designed to support our customers on the path to digital transformation.Building on our heritage of manufacturing award-winning document scanners and a fleet of Kodak Picture Kiosks (more than 100,000 are currently in retail locations, worldwide), we have enhanced our offerings by developing software solutions to extend these hardware platforms, all wrapped around rapid product evolution and responsive service.Within our information management division, for example, we've evolved from being image capture specialists to becoming information management solution providers. Our hardware and software enable businesses to extract information from captured documents, and to integrate it into business processes, providing them with valuable data they can use to drive business growth.We are extending the value of our products by developing open APIs, building an ecosystem and working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs), to extend the functionality of our portfolio. Together, we are developing software that enhances these platforms, and provides a complete solution to the customer.The ability to integrate cloud-based software solutions into our distributed hardware platforms has created new vistas for innovation, through the developing fields for Machine to Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things (IoT). Our use of cloud technologies means the need for DevOps to get involved with systems management has rapidly declined, which frees up products and services leaders to tackle By Dan Hurst, Chief Information Technology Officer, Kodak AlarisEYES ON THE FUTURE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND CLOUD COMPUTING OPEN ENORMOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESIN MYOPINION
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