A recent report by Quocirca revealed that 45% of organizations using MPS plan to increase expenditure in analytics*. As this market continues to grow, providing the most robust tools for data analysis promises to be a differentiator amongst MPS providers.

In order to compete and satisfy customer requirements, it is critical to ensure you are providing a solution with the widest reporting functionality for print, mobile print, copy, fax and scan workflow usage of enterprise printing fleets.

What to consider for enterprise grade report?

When selecting a technology partner for reporting it is important to consider these four requirements:

• One-click-templates – include business critical reporting templates which instantly give a full and accurate picture on costs and activity across the entire print fleet.
• Customized reporting tools – maximize the level of control by empowering administrators to report on any data point within their printing environment. For example which applications are generating the most print activity or costs? How often are the digital sending features being used on the fleet? Which print devices are underutilized? Who are the top users of the printer fleet?
• Automated distribution – make report generation and scheduling flawless to save administration by ensuring reports can be generated in any format (PDF, HTML and CSV) and scheduled to automatically send to e-mail or a specific folder location.
• Language support –support the organization to service a global marketplace by appointing a solution that offers maximum language support to cater for the requirements of globally distributed organizations.

What solutions are available?

FollowMe by Ringdale is trusted by global leaders in banking, health and government organizations, offering the widest range of functionality for office and mobile printing environments. FollowMe’s intuitive reporting tools enable the creation of customized on-demand reports to meet any business requirement. With the broadest language support and automated scheduling, FollowMe is the solution of choice for challenging enterprise environments.

For further information on FollowMe’s reporting tools, visit the FollowMe web site

What BLI says

“FollowMe allows the creation of custom reports pulling from over 2,000 filtered selections. This allows administrators to report on just about any data point or matrix the database contains”

“Most impressive are FollowMe’s environmental reports, which will help managers quantify the benefits “green” initiatives are delivering”

BLI 5 star report, FollowMe 6

For a full review on FollowMe’s capabilities for reporting, cost management, user workflow and security download the BLI assessment from the FollowMe website.

If you are interested in learning more on how to become a Ringdale partner, please contact us at FollowMe@ringdale.com

Example templates available with FollowMe by Ringdale

Environmental Impact reports – Quantify savings per environmental resource

Statistics –One glance reports on print activity

¹ Quocirca, 2015 Managed Print Service Landscape