| Audience |
Value |
How Printelligence Delivers |
The Customer
(SMB)
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Reduce or recover the cost of print with minimal effort to set up and administer a system. |
- Measure the true costs of print, on all devices, at an end-user level.
- Implement print policies for cost reduction and charge-out at the point of print decision-making: the end-user’s desktop.
- Easy to set-up and configure; auto-discovers devices and user identities.
- System comes pre-loaded with theme-based rules for cost reduction,
cost recovery and green initiatives; rules are easily customized through
a structured Wizard.
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The Customer
(Enterprise Corp Finance)
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Measure, understand and gain control over the costs and environmental impact of print in the organization. |
- Measure the true costs of print, on all devices, at an end-user level.
- Analyze print volumes and feature usage by organizational units and location.
- Implement print policies at the point of print decision-making: the end-user’s desktop.
Analyze user compliance with policies.
- Printelligence’s adaptive business rules system keeps messaging fresh and evolves with the organization.
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The Gatekeeper
(IT Manager)
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Accomplish print management objectives with minimal risk to IT infrastructure. |
- System uses pre-existing print-queues; no need to rebuild.
- Easy to set-up and configure; auto-discovers devices, servers, and user identities.
- No single point of failure to put print at risk; runs on clients, with central server only for data aggregation.
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Administrator
(Printing Services Manager or IT Admin)
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Easily implement and steward effective print management, without causing political backlash from the user community. |
- System comes pre-loaded with theme-based rules for cost reduction, cost recovery and green initiatives; admin user can easily customize rules’ criteria, thresholds and target user groups.
- Rules can be back-tested on historical data to gauge their impact before implementing.
- Rules can be targeted to the most appropriate user groups (e.g. heavy users of color printing).
Meta-rules prevent end-user complaints by enabling the administrator to tune how often a user sees a message, relative to their compliance level.
- New employees are trained on print policies as they do their work.
- Analytic reports enable the administrator to gauge rules’ effectiveness on target user groups.
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| The End-User |
Support the corporation’s print management strategy, while minimizing inconvenience to self. |
- Business rules can be written to impose an appropriate level of interaction with the user, ranging from a fade-in/fade-out message to a popup dialog that interrupts print.
- Printelligence meta-rules adapt to end-user’s behavior, minimizing interruptions over time; popup message frequency is conditioned to avoid excessively repeating messages.
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