Print.IT Reseller - issue 88

BULLETIN Great British beach clean Apogee partnered with The Marine Conservation Society to support The Great British Beach Clean, a week-long citizen science event which sees hundreds of beach cleans take place up and down the UK. 33 Apogee employees collected over 40kg worth of litter across a 200 metre stretch of beach in Whitstable, Kent and Paull on the Humber. 2,812 pieces of litter were collected, ranging from fishing materials to syringes and needles. The team removed over 1,900 pieces of plastic composed of bags and bottles and 470 sanitary products consisting of wet wipes and cotton bud sticks. These two figures alone make up 90.76% of the total litter found. Chief Operating Officer Mark Smyth, said: “This is a continuation of our journey to help create a more sustainable future. Team Apogee did a fantastic job over the two days and I’m very proud of their commitment and efforts and I look forward to many more events over the coming months aimed at making a sustainable difference wherever we can.” www.apogeecorp.com Channel partner event ITS hosted its 2021 channel partner event at the London Stadium, former home of the 2012 London Olympics. As well as delegates attending in person, overseas partners were, for the first time, able to join via a live stream of the event with a translated subtitle option of their choosing. Guests on the day were provided with a tour of the stadium and an inspirational address from the former British track and field athlete and Olympian Steve Backley, together with demonstrations and presentations on the core ITS print, copy and scan portfolio of solutions. As part of the solution showcase, they were joined by partners from Umango, Princity, Intuitive, Elatec and PaperCut who all presented on the day. During the event, a charity raffle in aid of St Luke’s Hospice raised £735.44. ITS doubled that donating a total of £1,470.88 to the cause. www.its-group.com Capital switches to Vantage Online Capital Document Solutions, Scotland’s largest independent office equipment dealer, has selected Vantage Online, Asolvi’s cloud-based service management solution for the MPS sector, to support business operations and help deliver its entire range of product and service offerings. Before choosing Vantage Online, Capital was using Microsoft Dynamics 2009 (AX). However, as a decade-old on-premises ERP tool, it had started to show limitations that were impacting business operations. “We had to invest in the development of bespoke functionality to make AX compatible with our meter billing system and logistics department,” Solutions Delivery Manager Graham Thompson, explained. “If further changes were needed, we would have required significant additional investment and could have incurred considerable disruption to our daily operations. We would also have had all the server management costs and headaches that are associated with a legacy on-premises solution.” Capital considered several options and chose Vantage Online because it is designed specifically for the MPS industry. Thompson said: “We get key functionality like meter billing, helpdesk ticketing, engineer scheduling and a customer portal straight off-the-shelf in a single platform – without having to look for external solutions or commission bespoke bolt-ons. It’s straightforward to carry out the everyday tasks such as adding new users and setting permissions. It is also easy to integrate with other software in our business. As such, we’re planning to integrate Vantage Online with our new financial solution, which will help to streamline our invoicing and financial processes.“ The management team at Capital are confident that Vantage Online will begin to deliver significant benefits in the coming weeks and months. Limitations to the legacy software mean that hardware and service calls are handled in different systems, however Vantage Online allows all customer calls to be managed and logged within a single platform. Capital will also use Vantage Online to centralise all customer and product information on a single database. In addition, the solution will enable managers to create detailed reports and analysis. www.asolvi.com www.capital-solutions.co.uk Weaver & Bomfords adopts MPS Monitor Office supplies business, Weaver & Bomfords has standardised on MPS Monitor 2.0, to enable its clients to drive greater efficiencies from their print, while enjoying greater insights into their print volumes and costs. Two-thirds of the Cheshire-based business’ customers are benefitting from the accessibility, flexibility and security that MPS Monitor 2.0 delivers. Managing Director Sue Lenton, said: “We’re always looking at how we can offer our clients value, and by providing an outsourced print management solution from MPS Monitor we can remove their print burden so they can get on with running their business. “We were quite an early adopter of MPS Monitor and we were using it with Asolvi Vantage. The integration with MPS Monitor made the complex process of changing from another provider straightforward. They also helped us to perform a bulk update to minimise the tasks involved.” www.mpsmonitor.com 01732 759725 6 HEADL INE SPONSOR www.pr int i tawards .co.uk Shortlists SEE WHO MADE THE