As part of its Print Software Product Spotlight, WhatTheyThink has laid out the numerous benefits of Kodak’s flagship workflow product.
Earlier this year WhatTheyThink shone a spotlight on Kodak’s PRINERGY Cloud, which takes advantage “of what cloud computing can do to a printer’s production workflow”. PRINERGY Workflow, Kodak’s flagship workflow product, has undergone a careful transition to the cloud, in “a strategic and incremental migration of specific workflow services which benefit most from cloud deployment.”
With the evolution of cloud computing, Kodak “has taken a hybrid approach to utilising the cloud where it makes the most sense for their customers”, and in making the transition has opted to partner with Microsoft Azure. This means Kodak can “leverage Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and immediately deploy PRINERGY Cloud to data centres across the world for both redundancy and responsiveness.”
This hybrid approach has been described by WhatTheyThink as ‘ideal’, as a “pure cloud solution” is not always required, and Kodak’s approach “peels off the services that would benefit most from cloud deployment and keeps the services that are better suited for local deployment on servers at the printer.”
When moving to the cloud businesses can “embed tools once and then share them” across their customer base. Kodak offers Decision Analytics as “the foundation of the PRINERGY Cloud” which “puts you in charge of how you want to see your business data” and gives you “real-time access” in a “dynamic fashion”.
In addition, Kodak PRINERGY Cloud “is on a roadmap of incrementally adding the services that make sense in the cloud and simultaneously work with your locally deployed PRINERGY server” and will “continue to add more service layers to the solution while maintaining a workflow that gracefully bridges between local hosted services and cloud services.”
As a result, “printers will move towards managing service level agreements rather than locally hosted hardware and software.”