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Mike Morper<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week I spoke with Mike Morper, vice president of marketing for Notable Solutions, about the latest enhancements to NSi Mobile, its productivity app for organizations looking to extend business processes to their mobile workforces as well as NSi Output Manager, an integrated print management solution for office and enterprise environments that require a secure way to control the production and delivery of printed information.<\/p>\n

The origins of Output Manager date back to earlier this year with NSi\u2019s acquisition of Barr EOM (Enterprise Output Management) from Barr Systems. This product was designed exclusively for production print applications. Now that it\u2019s been renamed Output Manager and is under the auspices of NSi it\u2019s offered in three flavors to cater to different audiences\u2014office, enterprise, and production.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t jettison the primary business, production, we\u2019re still playing there,\u201d says Morper. \u201cWe wanted to take this technology and readdress how it can be best leveraged in the office.\u201d<\/p>\n

He expects Output Manager Enterprise to be the most popular of the three versions. Output Manager Enterprise does everything that Output Manager Office does, but also allows for printing to any networked device across the organization regardless of where the print submission originated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also providing the flexibility to connect into legacy or host systems like an ERP system where you need to get a print stream from it and deliver it to its destination,\u201d states Morper. \u201cWe can have that print stream come in, interpret it, and transform it into something an office printer would recognize.\u201d<\/p>\n

Office Manager can also take a Unix print stream and convert it to a postscript or PDF stream for output in an office.\u00a0 Further functionality is provided through integration with NSi\u2019s AutoStore, NSi\u2019s secure information collection solution. As a result, Notable Solutions says it can dramatically improve the management of backend application print streams such as those coming from mainframes, Unix, Linux, AS\/400, SAP, Peoplesoft, Epic, and others. Customers can incur significant savings by converting high-volume print jobs from a mainframe system and delivering them as an electronic file that is fully searchable.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a mobile component to Output Manager. \u201cWe\u2019ve expanded the capabilities of our mobile platform to be able to provide print submission from our mobile client,\u201d says Morper. \u201cIf you need to put something in a virtual queue you can do that from our mobile client without touching the printer itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Something else unique about Output Manager is that NSi has developed its own universal print driver to meet the needs of mostly larger organizations that have an array of different devices from different manufacturers. This eliminates the need for that organization to make sure all those drivers for those devices are available on all the desktops in that organization. In a secure environment the organization would have to take each of those drivers through a security audit.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur universal Postscript print driver can be transparently used across a mixed fleet,\u201d explains Morper.<\/p>\n

This is done by sending pure Postscript to the Output Manager server where it identifies the device, recognizes the attributes of that device, and injects those attributes at print time. Then in real time it injects those traits into the print stream when it\u2019s time to print.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can go to any device, Ricoh, Xerox, Konica Minolta, and still be able to accurately output to that device based on this cool technology we offer to our customers,\u201d states Morper.<\/p>\n

NSi is also providing a limited functionality license of Autostore at no extra charge with the Office and Enterprise offerings. This provides users with scan to e-mail and scan to folder.<\/p>\n

NSi spent a significant amount of time looking at competitive offerings, and now believes it has something compelling on the print side at a more competitive price. \u201cWe\u2019re bullish on what we\u2019re bringing to market and excited about what we have to offer,\u201d boasts Morper.<\/p>\n

Asked what are the three most important things to remember about Output Manager, Morper says, the ability to provide secure print output in the office; it\u2019s the only platform fully integrated with both print and capture so if an organization depends on MFPs, they will see a benefit from a single user experience at the MFP for both print and capture services; and that it contains a complete mobility overlay so NSi can accommodate the needs of an office bound workforce and print and capture support through its mobile client for a workforce on the go.<\/p>\n

NSi Output Manager will be available in November.<\/p>\n

Meet NSi Mobile 6.2<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the mobile revolution in full swing, Notable Solutions is well positioned for meeting the demands of the mobile worker with NSi Mobile 6.2.<\/p>\n

A Notable Solutions press release describes NSi Mobile as \u201cthe first enterprise-grade solution to integrate both capture and print capabilities to help mobile workers deliver accurate information into their business process, regardless if the downstream destination is a line of business application or a print device.\u201d<\/p>\n

A key benefit of the latest version of NSi Mobile is that it is fully integrated with NSi\u2019s Output Manager. Users can submit print jobs via smartphone or tablet into a virtual print queue. An individual either inside or outside the firewall can submit a print job on both iOS and Android devices without the need for third-party hosted servers. NSi Mobile ensures a secure and direct connection between each device and the virtual print queue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe print job can later be printed out at the printer of their choice [on the company network] when they finally get to where they\u2019re going,\u201d explains Morper.<\/p>\n

Another notable capability, according to Morper, is the ability to securely browse documents stored in Microsoft SharePoint sites from within the NSi Mobile client and route them back into a business process from a mobile device, or for the mobile worker to securely print them from a mobile device.<\/p>\n

Other new features in NSi Mobile include:<\/p>\n