print management

I've been doing some research for an article that I am writing. It is required that I look at a number of software providers in a particular vertical market. I was doing some research on remote printer management software programs. There seem to be an unlimited supply of this particular type of software available.

Well, for my research, I needed to know why I would choose their product over their competitor. I want the business case for the benefit of their product. What I notice more than anything is they are very good at putting a feature list but not very good at putting the important business benefits where I can find them. In fact, the feature list is incredibly long (many pages on many) but the benefits aren't easy to understand. I have to infer from the features what the benefit of their product is. Or, in some cases, what the core positioning of their product is. continue reading...

Last post I talked in depth about print management. There are a number of tools available that you can use to manage your print costs. Many of the tools that are available cost some money and can provide different benefits to your organization.

I tend to think that Web Jetadmin is HP's best kept secret. The management capability from an IT perspective allows for you to control many aspects of your print environment. These management capabilities allow you to decrease your costs and increase your operational efficiencies.

I mentioned in my last post that there are three key areas that can allow you to positively affect your bottom line. These three areas are standardization, consolidation and location. The largest advantage of properly optimizing your print fleet to these areas is that you can utilize a tool such as Web Jetadmin to manage many of the features of the print devices on your network. Here are just some of the things that you can do with Web Jetadmin. continue reading...

In my last post, I mentioned that I did a little research on HP. While I think that HP missed an opportunity to further the discussion with their customers, I think that they do many things very well.

One of the areas they have been very successful in is print management.

I thought I would take a moment to define print managment a little and how you can reduce your operating expense by employing an effective print management strategy.

The Challenge in Printing:

It is interesting to me that most organizations simply underestimate their cost of operation for their printers and copiers. According to a recent Gartner Group study, organizations underestimate their costs by as much as  50% and will spend up to 3% of their total annual revenue on document output. Fortunately, the bulk of my business is web development, so I use very little paper and print very little, however, I have found that most companies that claim to be paperless or who have employed an electronic document management system find they may even exceed those numbers. continue reading...