Drive Printing Efficiencies Across the Global Enterprise
There are significant organizational costs – of both time and money—associated with the interruption of critical business processes, and the loss of key outbound documents due to printer failures. Without a reliable print management solution, companies may also be exposed to unnecessary financial and operational risks. Even one failed print job can result in lost invoices, uncollected revenue, missed shipping windows and strained IT resources.
Bottomline’s Print Manager solution, now available as a complementary addition to all of Bottomline’s document processing platforms, including Create!form®, FormScape® and Optio® solutions, is designed to help organizations maximize enterprise printing efficiencies in an increasingly document-intensive business environment.
Optimize IT Resources for Both Upstream and Downstream Printer Management
Stop wasting valuable time searching for IP addresses, fielding unnecessary calls fromusers or wondering if the relevant printer is loaded or offline. Bottomline Print Managerdynamically distributes the downstream workload from your document server so thatprinter networks are never underused or overburdened. The system automatically identifiesthe most efficient printer for each job, routing high-volume output to the fastest devicesand reserving color printers for color-only jobs. Additionally, Print Manager will automatically spool large jobs to multiple devices, redirectjobs if the primary printer is unavailable and alert end-users to any changes. If a devicefails, Print Manager automatically redirects or reprints the job without accessing your ERPsystem or requiring IT assistance.
With features for assured delivery, bi-directional printer communications and both end-user and application notification, Bottomline Print Manager takes the guesswork out of traditional printing infrastructures. Organizations can now configure and control remote printing resources, confirm delivery, proactively anticipate and correct problems, reduce network downtime, automate printer fail-over, and manage multiple types of document output – all from a single, secure interface.
| Feature |
Benefit |
Conditional/Rules-based Delivery of Documents to Different Destinations |
- Automatic and real-time routing of documents without manual intervention or changes to the underlying application
- Allows for “real-time” events and meta-data to act as a trigger for report delivery
- Examples of these triggers: User, Report Title, Destination, Data within the report, or any command line option.
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Automated Delivery of Sub-Reports or Sections of Reports (“Report Bursting”) |
- Eliminates manual bursting
- Reduces programmatic efforts to analyze and manipulate data streams before report generation
- Allows for customizable report delivery based on the needs of the recipient
- System overhead is reduced because a report is created just once and burst into multiple sub-reports
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Web/HTML Administration Interface |
- Browser-based management of the print environment
- Provides a “zero client” solution for advanced control of print jobs
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Network Throttling |
- Ensures uninterrupted access to mission-critical applications by preventing large print jobs from consuming all available bandwidth
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Centralized Administration |
- Allows management of print operations across multiple platforms and multiple locations via one central interface
- Allows for monitoring of all system printing activity
- Ability to manage queues, schedule jobs, and manage job status
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Automated Grouping, Collating and Batching of Reports |
- Reduce manual efforts to deliver reports to end-user
- Reduce loss of documents due to manual handling
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Automated Collection of Key Print Environment Data |
- Allows for analysis and reporting of print requests by user, and costs by user, device, group or department
- Supports reporting needed for audit and compliance requirements
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Graphical Representation of Spooled Data |
- Enables management to make crucial decisions based on visual analysis of key data
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Automated Alerts (Proactive Notification) |
- Allows IT Staff to be proactive in managing enterprise print environment
- Reduces continuous monitoring requirement and costs
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Confirmation of Document Delivery within SAP |
- Provides confirmation of critical document delivery requests submitted from SAP without requiring the user to exit SAP
- Eliminates manual effort to track documents
- SAP certified to the SAP BC-XOM standard
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