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June 14,
2010 - Irvine, CA
Toshiba
Partners with Preo™
to OFFER CUSTOMERS
EVEN GREATER PRINT MANAGEMENT TOOLS
Preo’s Printelligence™ MPS Solution Helps
Businesses Effortlessly and Effectively Manage Print Behavior,
Save Significant Printing Costs and Reduce Their Environmental
Impact
Irvine,
Calif.,
(June 14, 2010)
– Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS), an
industry-leader in MPS, and Preo Software Inc., the market leader
in Print Knowledge Management Systems, today announced a strategic
agreement, under which TABS will market Preo’s Printelligence™
MPS solution throughout the United States, Mexico, Central
and South America, and the Caribbean. The flagship value
proposition of this partnership is centered around effectively
managing end-user print behavior, thus enabling organizations of
all sizes to reduce their printing costs and environmental impact,
without interfering or interrupting their knowledge-workers’
productivity.
”We’re always searching for new ways to help our
customers effectively, and easily manage end-user print behavior,
and thereby improve our own MPS offerings. After carefully
evaluating various solutions, we decided that Printelligence MPS
best met our needs for a flexible end-user solution. It is easy to
deploy and use, requires little IT involvement, integrates
seamlessly with our existing offerings, allows for remote
management, and has the architecture, security and features to
ensure strong customer and channel acceptance,” said Bill Melo,
vice president, Marketing, Services and Solutions, Toshiba.
“We are particularly pleased that Toshiba, with its
track record of innovation and leadership in the managed print
market has selected Preo’s user-centric Printelligence MPS
solution. It is further validation of the unique benefits Preo can
deliver to industry leaders in managed print. The Toshiba team is
clearly at the forefront of developing the next major phase of
print management focused on the end-user, which we term Print
Optimization 2.0,” said Gary McCone, President & CEO, Preo
Software.
“We clearly see the end-user aspect of managed print
evolving,” said Ed Crowley, CEO, Photizo Group, and organizer of
MPS 2010, the industry’s leading forum for Managed Print. “This
agreement between industry leading Toshiba and Preo Software is a
clear indication of the trend for MPS software to move beyond
simply managing devices, to being an active component of the
change management process for end users.”
About Preo™ Software
Preo Software Inc. is the market leader in providing
Print Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS) to enterprises and
select OEM’s around the world. Printelligence, the company's award
winning SaaS (Software as a Service) offering, empowers users to
optimize their print assets and reduce print volumes, yielding
significant cost savings and a smaller environmental footprint.
Preo customers have achieved significant cost reductions through
the deployment of Printelligence's patented PKMS Rules Engine,
which allows managers to monitor, advise and/or control the print
function in their organization.
Printelligence™ MPS is the complete solution
for implementing a comprehensive Print Optimization 2.0 service
from assessment to print behavior change management and reporting.
About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages
product planning, marketing, sales, service support and
distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing
products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the
United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the
Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the
Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International
Division; and Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a wholly-owned
subsidiary corporation of TABS, that operates a network of
wholly-owned office equipment dealers throughout the United
States.
TABS is an independent operating company of Toshiba
Corporation, the seventh largest electronics/electrical equipment
company and the world's 97th largest company in terms of sales.
Ranked by Fortune magazine as the eighth Most Admired Electronics
Company in the World, Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in
high technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and
affiliates worldwide. Fiscal year revenue in 2008 was
approximately $67.9 billion.
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