By Madhubanti Rudra , TMCnet Contributor
One of the world’s most admired Electronic company, Toshiba (News – Alert) America Business Solutions Inc., has announced a partnership with Print Knowledge Management Systems, Preo Software Inc.Story continues below ↓ According to the agreement, TABS will market Preo’s Printelligence MPS solution throughout the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. The joint venture between the two market leaders is aimed at effectively managing end-user print behavior. The alliance is expected to enable organizations of all sizes to reduce their printing costs and environmental impact without interfering or interrupting their knowledge-workers’ productivity. A number of enterprises and select OEM’s around the world rely on Preo Software for its Print Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS) solutions. Its flagship, SaaS (News – Alert) based product, Printelligence is used by its clients for optimizing their print assets and reducing print volumes. This on the one hand helps companies achieve cost saving, on the other hand it helps companies reduce their environmental footprints. Printelligence’s patented PKMS Rules Engine allows managers to monitor, advise and/or control the print function in their organization. Preo PKMS solutions came as natural choice for Toshiba which was in search of a solution that would help their clients effectively manage end-user print behavior and as a result add to the value of their own MPS offerings. “We’re always searching for new ways to help our customers effectively, and easily manage end-user print behavior, and thereby improve our own MPS offerings,” said Bill Melo, vice president, marketing, services and solutions, Toshiba. “After carefully evaluating various solutions, we decided that Printelligence MPS best met our needs for a flexible end-user solution. It is easy to deploy and use, requires little IT involvement, integrates seamlessly with our existing offerings, allows for remote management, and has the architecture, security and features to ensure strong customer and channel acceptance.” Preo said he is pleased to be chosen as the partner of a company, which is considered an industry leader in MPS. “We are particularly pleased that Toshiba, with its track record of innovation and leadership in the managed print market has selected Preo’s user-centric Printelligence MPS solution. It is further validation of the unique benefits Preo can deliver to industry leaders in managed print. The Toshiba team is clearly at the forefront of developing the next major phase of print management focused on the end-user, which we term Print Optimization 2.0,” said Gary McCone, president and CEO of Preo Software said. The industry experts are optimistic about the outcome of the alliance between the two key players in MPS and PKMS sectors. “We clearly see the end-user aspect of managed print evolving. This agreement between industry leading Toshiba and Preo Software is a clear indication of the trend for MPS software to move beyond simply managing devices, to being an active component of the change management process for end users,” Ed Crowley, CEO of the Photizo Group said. Photizo Group is the organizer of MPS 2010, the industry’s leading forum for Managed Print.
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