The challenge with finding an enterprise printer management solution is to find one which does all of the following for your mobile and industrial printers:
- Manage Multiple Printer Manufacturers
- Deploy Printers Quickly and Automatically
- Simplify and Strengthen Remote Printer Security
- Proactively Reduce Downtime and Maintenance Costs
- Collect Essential and Actionable Printer Insights
- Automatically Discover Printers on a Network
Without these capabilities, printer management becomes a mess of different tools with different interfaces which may or may not be updated on a regular basis.
SOTI Connect – part of the SOTI ONE Platform – optimizes enterprise printer management for numerous printers.
What does that mean? How do your business-critical printing operations benefit? Check out the infographic below on six things you can do with SOTI Connect.
Six Things Your Enterprise Printer Management Should Do…and Six Ways SOTI Connect Does Them
You could use a patchwork of numerous printer management solutions and hope for the best. Or you could use SOTI Connect and get the following for all your printers. Your call.
1. Manage Multiple Printer Manufacturers
Your printing needs are diverse. They span locations. They range from shelf edge printing to label printing to printing RFID tags. Your fleet may be comprised of different printer manufacturers.
SOTI Connect enterprise-grade printer management standardizes how printers are managed and secured, regardless of its make, model or location. It’s the same process to send updates to a thermal printer from manufacturer X 100 feet away as it is for a label printer that’s 1,000 miles away from manufacturer Y.
Did You Know?
At least 40% of enterprises have mixed printer environment*
2. Deploy Printers Quickly and Automatically
After you purchase your mobile and industrial printers, you’ll need to get them deployed. Ideally with minimal extra time and cost to your operations.
Get printing faster. With SOTI Connect, printers don’t make multiple stops to be touched by multiple people – which costs money. Set up the printer in SOTI Connect, ship it to its destination, turn it on and get on Wi-Fi. SOTI Connect auto-configures the printer to meet your needs.
Did You Know?
It costs $120 to manually stage and deploy a single printer**
3. Simplify and Strengthen Remote Printer Security
Printers are forgotten when it comes to security due to neglect or the time, resources and costs associated with performing manual security updates.
Protect printers and reduce risk. Control user access. Push security updates and certificates regularly. Instantly detect printers with outdated firmware. SOTI Connect does it remotely and automatically to all printers it manages, so none are left behind. Because even one unsecured printer can lead to catastrophic consequences.
Did You Know?
The average printer data breach can cost a company over $950,000 (USD) and takes over 270 days to contain**
4. Proactively Reduce Downtime and Maintenance Costs
Printers experience downtime or performance issues. The organization loses money on two fronts: the repair cost and lost revenue due to printer downtime.
The best way to reduce maintenance and repair costs is to proactively stop problems from happening. SOTI Connect doesn’t wait for the printer to break – when it’s too late. It proactively monitors printer performance, provides alerts when issues are detected and resolves them remotely.
Did You Know?
It can cost $330 (USD) to have a third party perform printer maintenance**
5. Collect Essential and Actionable Printer Insights
You’ve invested time and money into your printers. So why would you not want to know what’s going on with them and take appropriate action?
Replace a component such as a printhead too soon and that’s money wasted. Too late and you end up with costly downtime. SOTI Connect reports on printer performance and health. When you have real-time, accurate data at your fingertips, you can make smarter decisions about your printers.
Did You Know?
55% of printers are disposed of unnecessarily**
6. Automatically Discover Printers on a Network
Manual audits of printer assets takes time, costs money and is very inaccurate. Why spend resources to know what you already have only to end up with an unreliable result?
As new printers join your network, SOTI Connect automatically discovers and accounts for them. If printers change networks, SOTI Connect tracks them. Instead of paying people to count – or miscount – printers, SOTI Connect gives you a real-time, accurate snapshot of your printer fleet.
Did You Know?
90% of organizations don’t know how many printers they have**
Support Your Printers with SOTI Connect
These six ways are how SOTI Connect solves the most common printer problems organizations face. It transforms enterprise printer management from clumsy and confusing to easy and efficient. It manages your mobile and industrial printers with the same rigor as other business-critical devices. It saves time and puts more money where it belongs – your bottom line.
Here’s how you can start with SOTI Connect.
