About system implementation of job control of printing of Print Audit in IT infrastructure of Luding group

The Aflex Distribution company, the representative of world leading manufacturers of software in the territory of Russia and the CIS countries, reported on successful system implementation of job control of printing of Print Audit in IT infrastructure of LUDING group. Stable work of the solution provided decrease in amounts of color print by 25%, black-and-white – for 20% and led to notable cumulative economy of the resources spent for corporate printing within only three months. According to calculations of IT specialists of "LUDING" the implemented system completely will pay off in two quarters.

LUDING group – one of the specialized trade enterprises, largest in Russia, selling alcoholic products. The company has an extensive network of branches in the key cities of the country: from Kaliningrad to Yakutsk 21 divisions of group work.

Difficult branched IT infrastructure of the company caused a number of the difficulties connected from efficiently control of printing. The management of LUDING LLC set for IT department the task to find a method to find out, where exactly, on what printers (color or b/w) and what documents are printed by employees. During its solution a number of weak points was revealed:

• lack of tools of assessment of volumes and cost of printing;
• lack of an opportunity to differentiate printing of different employees;
• lack of consolidated acquisition on load of list devices;
• lack of the personal responsibility for printing for personal reasons;
• difficult network and printing infrastructure (the distributed offices with bad communication channels, VPN, local and network printers).

As a product, possible for the solution of an assigned task, the LUDING company considered software of the leading vendors working in the field of cost optimization for printing. As a result specialists of the company stopped the choice on the Print Audit software product as the most effective instrument of control and job control of printing.

"Solutions of other vendors cost cheaper, but in the conditions of our IT infrastructure they could not function well. At the same time, Print Audit could surprise pleasantly with the speed and accuracy of the work, – comments on the choice of the product Vasilenko Ivan, the IT director of LUDING LLC. – Within 15 days we collected statistics of printing, it became during this time clear that we can save up to 15% of the total amount of printing a year".

By IT specialists of "LUDING" a number of advantages of use of software of Print Audit in the conditions of geographically distributed infrastructures was mentioned:

• the simple and fast centralized installation on workstations – allows to unroll a system in the shortest possible time and in all branches at the same time;
• user-friendly interface – administrators do not need to study a system in detail;
• exact and detailed statistics of printing (30 parameters for each task),
• the built-in reports – allow to estimate rational use of resources of printing and mn. other.

"We completely resolved an issue of optimization of tasks and cost of printing in our company. It is pleasant to observe how the software of Print Audit easy and effectively performs work which was extremely inconvenient to be performed by forces of system administrators – we save time which we use for the solution of other essential tasks", – Ivan Vasilenko summarizes.