Westcoast is master distributor for mobile-friendly Smart boards

Mobile-friendly interactive Kapp offering is latest bid to reinvigorate whiteboard sales

Canadian interactive whiteboard maker Smart has signed Westcoast as its master distributor for new Kapp digital-capture boards across the UK and Ireland.

Duncan Forsyth, managing director of Westcoast, indicated the boards are like traditional whiteboards but can capture, save, and share hand-drawn content in real time via the Smart Kapp mobile app.

The hope is that this may inject some vigour into the relatively mature interactive whiteboard market.

"This is an exciting new solution in a world saturated with an outdated product. We're delighted to be the premier distributors of Kapp in the UK and Ireland," Forsyth said.

According to Smart, Westcoast has already committed to ordering thousands of the boards for the British and Irish markets.

This partnership provides Smart with enormous reach into some of its key markets, including large corporate commercial resellers, value-add SIs, online retailing, hotels, conference rooms and large retailers," the vendor said.

"In conjunction with large shipments over the coming months, Smart and Westcoast plan an aggressive marketing rollout that aims to drive the replacement of the outdated whiteboard and flip chart."