Print Audit: Is the End Nigh? Nope!

In the past 4 months I have been asked by several of our customers about the impending demise of the Print Audit device management platform as they have been told by would be suitors that it was being killed off.  In response to this and to paraphrase Mark Twain  

“The rumours of the death of Print Audit have been greatly exaggerated”.  

A more up to date explanation than a premature obituary, would be Fake News! The source of this misinformation is our competition who it would seem have not been able to win our customers business by offering additional benefits, have adopted an approach akin to a person wandering up and down Oxford St with a sandwich board proclaiming “The End is Nigh”.  In the spirit of fact checking and hopefully setting the record straight I can confirm the following  

The Print Audit platform is alive and well and still has close to 3,000,000 devices globally being tracked on daily basis. The hosting infrastructure has been upgraded at great expense to ensure compliance, increased resilience, capacity and security.  So far about 55% of PA customers have opted to upgrade, using tools to automate the process and free of charge from the ECI Print Audit platform to ECI Printanista which was recently named as Device Management platform of the year at the Print IT awards. In doing so they will become part of a platform that hosts over 17,000,000 devices globally.    

So next time you are told PA is being phased out may be worth asking if the bearer of this very sad news, how do they know this and how many devices they are hosting as Device Management has become a very expensive technology to provide  and unless the base is in the several millions the long term prognosis for the may not be as healthy as you would hope.  If you need a personal consultation for a healthy future please DM me on Linkedin 

Phil Madders – Director PAE Business 

PAE Business, established in 2000, is a prominent solutions and services provider in the Managed Print Services (MPS) and Managed Content Services (MCS) sectors, based in the United Kingdom. Operating across the EMEA region, PAE Business collaborates with market-leading, award-winning partners to deliver tailored solutions that provide resellers with a distinct competitive advantage to win more business. 

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