Print Service Provider Benefits l Customer Benefits

PTI Marketing Technologies™ online business applications can be integrated with a variety of corporate enterprise and business partners. Exchange data through electronic data interchange (EDI) or connect to e-procurement applications from Ariba, Commerce-One, SAP, and PeopleSoft, or virtually any other software including legacy applications. Integrate MarcomCentral™ applications with corporate portals and Intranets and even corporate document management solutions like Documentum. Corporate users don’t have to learn a new interface to their web to print system, they simply place orders using their own familiar software. Orders flow into the print service provider's system. PTI Marketing Technologies™ products can also be integrated with accounting, inventory, print management and shop-floor systems, like Enterprise Print Management Solutions (originally known as MicroInk), inside the company or with business and distribution partners. Extensive support of standard formats like CIP4 JDF/JMF, PrintTalk, and legacy flat files allow you to implement machine control, retrieve status information, and much, much more.

Print Service Provider Benefits

• Benefit from corporate print on demand opportunities and participate in corporate e-procurement initiatives without hiring a team of systems integrators
• Reduce training requirements when users order from systems their companies have already implemented
• Interface with shop floor management or print MIS to create a fully automated production workflow
• Reduce the cost of integration with no investment in hardware or software, no software support fees and no integration expertise needed

Customer Benefits

• Use current ERP or e-procurement systems to place orders for printed materials, including versioned and variable documents
• No requirement for desktop users to learn new software, ordering can be done using applications with a familiar look and feel
• Uses access and security controls and approval processes inherent in the enterprise applications; does not require additional log in or approval workflows
• Streamlines buying process by returning purchase data to the corporate e-procurement system
• Streamlines accounting by forwarding order information to existing accounting systems
• Printers can provide integration to enterprise applications at little or no additional cost to their corporate customers