01732 759725 ACQUISITIONS 34 continued... Our primary goal is stability and business continuity, we are not changing anything or disrupting anything company has achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification and successfully completed the System and Organization Controls 2 Type 1 (SOC 2 Type 1) examination. With over 30 years of service, Euroform, the company behind the JetAdvice family of managed print services solutions has become a leader in the printing industry with its cloud-based managed print services platforms for global clients, through development, maintenance and support of these systems. JetAdvice empowers thousands of dealers, distributors and OEMs across the world to remotely assess, manage, maintain, secure and optimise customers’ office, large format and thermal printer fleet environments. The JetAdvice cloud solution, hosted on Microsoft Azure, is also managed within an Information Security Management System which is certified as compliant with ISO/IEC 27001. A natural fit Euroform is a natural fit within this new vertical and sits well alongside MPS Monitor. Both companies operate in complementary territories, for example Euroform is particularly strong in the Nordics, while MPS Monitor has a greater presence in the UK and US markets. “Both products have different positioning, and the MPS Monitor and Euroform brands will not change. We have merged the two organisations and we now have a single team across the entire entity and that means that we have the skills and knowledge and the abilities of both companies which are very complementary, under one roof,” De Blasi said, adding: “There is huge scope for growth within both companies, and with the operational and financial resources we now have, we can accelerate this growth and further increase both companies’ reach and global footprint.” Features and functionality There are of course areas where the two technologies could benefit from each other. For example, MPS Monitor’s advanced BI adds significant value to channel partners, Euroform’s platform doesn’t have that same capability. On the other hand, JetAdvice can manage label printers and large-format devices, which MPS Monitor doesn’t currently support. De Blasi said: “The product plans are not yet finalised, but we will be looking at where we can invest to bring added value to both companies’ customers, by bringing advanced features of one product to the other, where possible. For example, we will consider how to build BI into the JetAdvice solution and to look at bringing the device web access functionality from MPS Monitor DCA4 over to the JetAdvice platform, if it works from a technological perspective – because they are two different technologies.” Customers will have access to both products and the company is committed to investing in and supporting both platforms. Both MPS Monitor and Euroform have strong relationships. “Coming together as a single company with a single strategy and single team will further strengthen our joint vendor and partner relationships and maximise our routes to market,” De Blasi said. “Our primary goal is stability and business continuity, we are not changing anything or disrupting anything. MPS Monitor and Euroform will continue to exist as separate business entities, customers will enjoy the same relationships and will be invoiced in the same way whether that’s from MPS Monitor Europe or UK, or Euroform,” he concluded. www.mpsmonitor.com https://euroform.com www.valsoftcorp.com customers and providers globally.” He continued: “The most important thing for me is to make an impact on the industry. Over the past two to three years, at MPS Monitor we have tried to be innovative in our approach and to do something different in a sector which was stable, we strive to be the most integrated platform in the market,” he said. Innovation, integration and security “MPS Monitor’s focus is on three key areas – innovation, integration and security. This is what we do, and we dedicate ourselves totally to these things,” De Blasi added. Over the past couple of years, MPS Monitor has developed a new DCA, modern user interface for the platform and advanced business intelligence – MPS Monitor Analytics is a complete BI platform based on Microsoft PowerBI technology that provides granular and aggregate visibility to virtually all the data and events related to customers’ print environments. The company has also forged partnerships with leading technology providers and integrated MPS Monitor with solutions including HP Smart Device Services (SDS); Microsoft Universal Print; Okta Identity, to enable users to sign on across domains with a single online identity, further increasing security; Asolvi, to add value by enabling dealers using Asolvi ERP solutions to benefit from a deep integration of the monitoring platform into their systems; and an integration with PaperCut that provides PaperCut customers with advanced BI and advanced features in MPS Monitor. The platform can also monitor document scanners from Kodak Alaris. Security is the third key focus area, the MPS Monitor platform offers a robust set of security features and capabilities to protect data, users and infrastructure. The
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