London (Oct. 12, 2021) – MPS Monitor, the company that develops and distributes the leading platform for the remote monitoring and management of printers and multifunctional devices, has today announced that Weaver & Bomfords – the office supplies business – has standardized 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.
The Cheshire-based business, which can trace its roots back almost a century to 1922, offers its clients solutions and services ranging from photocopiers and network printers to Managed Print Services (MPS) and Document Solutions. Today, two-thirds of Weaver & Bomfords customers are benefitting from the accessibility, flexibility and security that MPS Monitor 2.0 delivers.
Sue Lenton, managing director of Weaver & Bomfords, explains why MPS Monitor 2.0 was chosen for its needs. “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. From a customer’s point of view, they haven’t got to maintain or manage toner supplies as it simply gets delivered and marked up for the right machine, so they know that it will be there as they need it.”
MPS Monitor makes data and information easily accessible, which is unlike other solutions that require a fair amount of technical knowledge in order to be able to access the information and reporting data. MPS Monitor makes it easy to get a proper snapshot of a fleet’s status, so problems or issues can be identified immediately.
“It’s really easy to find the information that you need. Overall, MPS monitor offers us much more by giving you a business management tool that can be used easily,” Lenton said.
An additional benefit of MPS Monitor is that it offers customers multi-connector availability so it can run on more than one device. As long as the connector is installed, users can see devices and the network hierarchies. Furthermore, integration with third-party applications – like CRM systems – is another MPS Monitor strength, as Lenton established.
“We were quite an early adopter of MPS Monitor and we were using it with Asolvi Vantage. At the time, there wasn’t actually an official connector for us,” she said. “But MPS Monitor listened to us and developed one pretty quickly and then helped us to get it set up. 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 minimize the tasks involved.”
Commenting on the deployment, Nicola De Blasi, CEO of MPS Monitor, said, “Many businesses are recognizing that the pandemic has changed how we print and how we view print, especially given the hybrid working model that many businesses have adopted. This calls for a new, flexible approach to print monitoring if print is going to be secure, accountable and under control. Weaver & Bomfords is a shining example of how a company can accomplish that using MPS Monitor, even under the challenges and uncertainty of a pandemic. We’re very excited about our relationship with Weaver & Bomfords, and how it will flourish in the future.”
With its cloud-based architecture, vendor-agnostic approach, security focus, and direct integration with HP Inc.’s Smart Device Services (SDS) and Microsoft Universal Print (UP), MPS Monitor is ideally suited to meet the evolving needs of the hybrid workforce.
Some of the industry’s most respected organizations are endorsing MPS Monitor, including IDC. It considers MPS Monitor “a strategic player in the market, providing added value to customers and channel partners alike with a robust solution that offers capabilities beyond traditional device management platforms.” Meanwhile, Quocirca included it in its Print Security Landscape 2020, stating that “MPS Monitor 2.0 is a cloud-based print management platform that offers a robust solution for MPS providers and channel partners to provide integrated print management to their customers.”
Furthermore, the platform has also been featured in Quocirca’s Cloud Print Services Report 2021 and in the podcast series “In The Spotlight with Quocirca.” Additionally, in 2020, Keypoint Intelligence awarded the platform with a Platinum Rating, and with a BLI Pick Award for Outstanding Fleet Management Solution. MPS Monitor also earned a Security Validation Testing Seal for its security capabilities on HP devices.
The company recently announced collaborations with key technology industry leaders – including Microsoft, HP, Okta, Asolvi and Zebra Technologies – which has seen the company successfully meet the rapidly evolving print fleet management needs of dealers and MPS providers worldwide.
Dealers interested in migrating to MPS Monitor can get a free trial of the platform.
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About MPS Monitor
With more than 1,000,000 printing devices and 30 billion pages monitored each year on over 150,000 end users, MPS Monitor is one of the major IoT software solutions globally for monitoring printing devices and the provision of Managed Print Services. MPS Monitor provides an extremely complete SaaS platform for monitoring and managing printers, available on the cloud, and equipped with a full set of APIs for integrating external software solutions. Its highly scalable and high-performing data collection technology allows Dealers/VARs, large end-users, manufacturers, and retailers of printer consumables to satisfy any need associated with the management of printing devices, recording of page volumes, and supply of toner in an automatic and controlled way. The MPS Monitor Cloud service is managed within an ISO/IEC 27001:2014 certified Information Security Management System and guarantees full compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Recently MPS Monitor has successfully completed the System and Organization Controls 2 Type 1 (SOC 2 Type 1) audit.
