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Vista Plus Suite from Quest Software, Inc.
Quest Software has strong partnerships with top hardware, software and services companies and now has partnered with Toshiba to deliver faster, more cost effective solutions for medium and large businesses. Together we deliver mission critical information across the enterprise.
The Vista Plus Suite consists of two components, Vista Plus Professional and Vista Plus Output Manager. Vista Plus Professional focuese on the the longer-term storage, retrieval and on-line viewing of output while Vista Plus Output Manager focuses on the physical print and distribution of output. Think of Vista Plus Professional as a data warehouse for end user created reports and electronic documents. Reports are generated from your enterprise applications and are centrally captured into Vista Plus Professional as a printer stream. Since Vista Plus Professional accepts the output as a printer stream, authorized users can access and view the report information with a single client, regardless of the application or operating system that generated it. Additionally, any electronic document like Excel spreadsheets, Adobe Acrobat files and Microsoft Word documents can be centrally stored and managed in Vista Plus Professional.
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Vista Plus Professional uses a familiar, customizable Windows-Explorer-like interface that makes implementing and using Vista Plus Professional quick and easy. And reports appear in Vista Plus Professional just as they appear on paper - maintaining familiarity, productivity, and accuracy.
Vista Plus Output Manager provides a management environment to control and ensure delivery of your corporate information to printers and other destinations across the enterprise. Output is also accepted in print format from any application, on any platform or any ERP system. Quest Software supports the common print data streams such as PCL, postscript, text and ASA as well as advanced data streams from the mainframe like AFP and DJDE. Aside from guaranteeing print jobs will arrive to its final destination, Vista Plus Output Manager can also be configured to manage the distribution of printing. Here are just a few Vista Plus Output Manager key features:
Centralized Views
Centralized views of all the jobs and destination devices in your enterprise. The Vista Plus Output Manager Windows or Web console allows administrators to have command and control to re-run, re-route, re-prioritize, delete and hold jobs. Different levels of administration can be set up for super administrators, help desk personnel, departmental or regional administrators.
Ensures Delivery
Vista Plus Output Manager ensures delivery of output to its intended destination, whether printers, fax servers, mail servers, etc. If a device is down, Vista Plus Output Manager can automatically re-route the job to the next device and notify users and administrators of the changes.
Cluster Printing
Quest Software supports clustering job and/or devices together for increased efficiency when printing large reports. This can help reduce your production runs significantly by breaking up a single job across multiple printers and sending numerous copy requests of a job to many printers.
Forms Management
The ability to intelligently and dynamically apply a pre-defined form, like an invoice, for proper format with the porper information at its final destination.
Burst and Bundle
The burst and bundle feature allows multiple reports, or sections of reports to be split apart and packaged together into a single report, eliminating the need to manually rip and decollate of report.
Data Interrogation
Your business policies can be automatically enforced based on attributes such as job size, job name, device type, queue volume, user, date, time etc. This allows administrators to apply business logic that ensures the correct users and jobs are using the right resource.
Auditing
Auditing capabilities track a user's jobs and device usage. This information can be used for chargeback purposes to monitor which users and departments are using the most resources. Additionally these log files are a good resource for trending,to allow IT administrators the ability to project future usage or re-assign resources. This ensures service level agreements and efficient use of printers are met.
Although hard costs such as paper and toner use have typically been the main factor in determining print-related costs, companies also need to consider IS and network support, product processes, document's lifecycle, administration as well as system infrastructure costs. It has been determined that between production processes and managing of a document throughout its lifecycle, 75% of an enterprise's costs are addressed. In a large enterprise, the Vista Plus Suite and Toshiba solution is the premier solution. Vista Plus Professional provides the information accessibility, Vista Plus Output Manager ensures delivery, and Toshiba hardware provides the copying, stapling and other finishing features responsible for the additional 75% of the costs.
Begin reducing your operational costs realize the concept of "write-once, distribute-anywhere" with the Toshiba and Quest solution.
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