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YOUR AVANTI NEWSBRIEF
MAY 2017
As a Marketing Services Provider you have a lot going on. Chances are you’re managing a variety of print types including offset, large or wide format and digital inkjet and toner, as well as coordinating mailing. Upstream, you’re offering creative services to feed print, which requires managing data and providing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools and expertise. You may also be offering fulfillment services and solutions. All of this impacts your business processes, from estimation through to reporting.
As an MSP, you’re also likely integrating print with other highly-customized and personalized programs. The combination of all of these factors can create a lot of pain in your operations, as you’re continually faced with the challenge of maintaining numerous spreadsheets, applications, and databases to run your business, without having one source to access and control them.
So what is an MSP to do? More and more, MSPs are turning to a Print Management Information System (MIS) to take control. Let’s take a look at why it might be time to consider a Print MIS platform for your shop.
Avanti Slingshot continues focus on bringing increased automation and profitability to print shops with latest Kodak Prinergy integration
TORONTO, May 11, 2017 – Avanti Computer Systems Limited, a leader in Print MIS solutions, today announced the certification of Avanti Slingshot’s connectivity with Kodak Prinergy Business Link software. The company made the announcement at the Kodak GUA conference at Ryerson University in Toronto, where they are demonstrating their Avanti Slingshot integration with Kodak Prinergy pre-press workflow.
The automated, bi-directional integration between Avanti Slingshot and Kodak Prinergy Workflow eliminates the manual entry of information. This includes job details as well as collection of costs, updating of status, adjustment of inventory, and linking of files. Information is sent, received, and stored in one location – the Avanti Slingshot Job Manager. This ensures real-time visibility and eliminates costly errors associated with manual data entry between departments.
Avanti's Live Webinar Series - Thursdays at 2pm EST
Find out how Avanti has helped digital, offset, hybrid and large/grand format shops meet customer demands efficiently and cost effectively. Discover the critical role that MIS can play in your organization to help you achieve your goals by joining us for one of our upcoming live webinars Thursdays at 2PM EST.
MAY 18
Plan, Cost and Manage all Facets of the Direct Mail Process
Does your shop provide Direct Mail services?
Are you looking to automate your Direct Mail estimating, including postage and drops?
Do you want to integrate with your Web-to-Print solution?
Discover how Avanti Slingshot helps you Plan, Cost and Manage all Facets of the Direct Mail Process.
JUNE 1
Ten Time-Consuming Tasks You Should Automate Now!
It’s no secret that automation increases operational efficiency and reduces your manual workload. We’ve compiled a list of ten important business process tasks our clients have automated to help them significantly improve their bottom line, saving them both time and money.
Join us as we show how automating commonly-performed activities with Avanti Slingshot can increase efficiency and free up time during this hour-long discussion and demonstration.
JUNE 8
Keys to Successful Print MIS Implementation
Introducing technological change into an organization can present new challenges to management that must be overcome if companies are to absorb a new Print Management Information System (MIS) efficiently. Promising implementation efforts can go off the rails for many reasons, but with proper planning, management and effort, the inherent value of the Print MIS becomes clear.
This webinar will describe some of the difficulties faced during the implementation process, and suggest strategies managers can use to address these to ensure a successful implementation so the business flourishes..
JUNE 22
Avanti Slingshot and Prinergy: A Marriage Made in Heaven!
Kodak’s Prinergy Workflow software is one of the leading prepress automation software solutions that keeps costs, quality, and business risk in control giving you more freedom to grow your business.
In this session, we will demonstrate the integration between Avanti Slingshot and Kodak Prinergy Workflow and show how you can automate your prepress activities into your job workflow. This enables the exchange of production data, including time and costs, and job status information between a prepress workflow system and MIS, with reporting features for a real-time view of data summary.
JUNE 29
In-Plant Print Shops Improve Accountability and Cost Control with Avanti Slingshot’s Chargeback Module
Breaking down the cost of a job to every detail is a great way to discover where you are saving and/or losing money. The availability of reports on all relevant data relating to work done per customer account is critical to ensure that billing is tracked effectively.
With Avanti Slingshot’s Chargeback module, you have access to detailed job costing information, both electronically and as a hard copy, to simplify reporting and when exporting to your accounting system.
At Avanti, our goal is to help you deliver more jobs, in less time, with the confidence in knowing that every aspect of your shop is integrated into one powerful platform. Award-winning Avanti Slingshot is the only JDF-certified, cloud-based Print MIS in the market today. Connect islands of automation, eliminate breakpoints in your workflow, and get the information you want – when you want it, and where you want it – easily, with Avanti Slingshot. From order entry through to chargebacks, Avanti Slingshot enables you to work more efficiently, control your costs and move more jobs through the shop with ease.
See how Avanti Slingshot helps you seamlessly integrate into corporate systems, achieve zero-touch production, and deliver great customer service and value.
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