A Dispatcher Year in Review

Konica Minolta is dedicated to developing innovative software that can help make organizations more efficient. Over the course of 2025, we have released dozens of new tools, features, and connectors that help make Dispatcher Stratus and Dispatcher Phoenix the best workflow automation solutions in the industry. Here’s what we did this year:

Dispatcher Stratus

New Security Features

• Authentication enhancements – Dispatcher Stratus now supports PIN authentication, multiple simultaneous SAML providers, and card ID at the MFP.
  • Mass Authentication Provisioning – Configure one MFP with authentication and use it as a model for your whole fleet.
• Release2Me Secure Print – Allows Dispatcher Stratus to send documents to a secure release queue. A user can then authenticate at the MFP and release their jobs.
  • Direct Print – Cloud printing without authentication: press “Print” on your computer and documents print at the MFP, without print servers or drivers.
  • Mac Support – Release2Me secure print release is supported on Mac computers.
  • Release All Documents – Users have the option to release all documents in their print queues as soon as they authenticate.

New General Features

• bizhub SECURE Notifier Dashboard – Dispatcher Stratus integrates with bizhub SECURE Notifier, providing an at-a-glance report of MFP fleet security.
• Dynamic Forms – Create forms that populate based on user selections and inputs, data queries, and more. This dramatically improves user experience, increases form completion rates, and improves data quality, resulting in better results and reduced waste.
• Message Preferences – Allows users to customize the kinds of notifications they receive from Dispatcher Stratus.
• Proxy Support – Allows Dispatcher Stratus to operate in proxy environments, opening its use to a larger number of organizations.
• System Notifications Improvements – Upgraded the notifications available in Dispatcher Stratus for clarity.

New Collection Nodes

• Gmail® In – Collect emails and attachments from Google Mail.

New Process Nodes

• Collaboration Node – Allows a user to invite collaborators to view and comment on a job (while maintaining ownership of the job).
• Email Parser – Scan email files for keywords.
• Insert – Insert a string of text within a text document.
• Parse – Searches a text file for attributes such as name, file type or size.
• Parse & Distribute – Search a text document for a keyword or text string within a text file and route the document based on the search results.
• Parse & Replace – Search a text document for a keyword or text within a text file and replace it with new text.
• PDF Data Extraction – Extracts metadata, such as form values, from PDF forms.
• Split – Divide a document according to specified criteria, creating multiple documents from one.

New Distribution Node

• DocRecord® Connector – Send documents directly to DocRecord.
• Microsoft® Business Central Connector - Distributes documents to a connected Microsoft® Business Central account.

Dispatcher Phoenix

New Security Features

• CAC/PIV - Upgraded to better support government organizations that operate under strict information security guidelines.
• Support for GCC and GCC High Environments – Updated several nodes to support Government Community Cloud (GCC) and GCC High environments, to meet the security needs of the government agencies and the contractors that support them.
• Support for Windows Server 2025 – Konica Minolta is dedicated to supporting the latest security protocols.

New Features

• Batch Indexing Improvements – Enhanced document verification with new key value pair highlighting, document rotation, and more features that make indexing faster, more reliable, and more secure.
• Custom Per-Page Backgrounds – Allows users to design multi-page workflows with different backgrounds, for maximum customizability.
• Product Selector for NFR Licenses – Sales professionals can now use the simple product selector menu to show customers exactly what they would get in each vertical market version of Dispatcher Phoenix.
• Workflow search – Added a search feature to Dispatcher Phoenix to help users find workflows in high volume systems.

New and Updated Nodes

• Epic® Connector – Enhancements include the latest security updates and authentication protocols provided by Epic®.
• FHIR® Generator - Allows healthcare customers to generate a pre-built or custom Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®)-compatible XML file for secure data transfer.
• iManage® Connector - Allows customers to distribute documents to iManage®, a secure knowledge platform.
• Microsoft® Teams In – Allows workflows to filter messages and collect attachments from Microsoft Teams.
• Microsoft® Teams Connector – Sends documents as message attachments to a specified Microsoft Teams channel, even from the MFP.
• RightFax® Connector – Enhancements include support for cover pages, billing codes, multiple recipients, guest faxes, and notes.

On top of these major features, the team has been working tirelessly to update Dispatcher Stratus and Dispatcher Phoenix with quality-of-life updates to ensure our customers have the optimal document workflow experience.

Looking ahead to 2026, we have a slew of new connectors, features, and improvements lined up that will continue to expand on the capabilities of Dispatcher products. Stay tuned for exciting news coming soon!