Ironsides Nor’Star now adds Enterprise Manager to its suite of products allowing an organisation to effectively manage the challenges and benefits of having more than one production print site in your organisation.

At Ironsides we understand the challenge a multi-site business may have to know exactly what is going on, at all sites, at any one time, by knowing this the Management see what is going on at all sites on one screen, knowing if a site is full, potentially were the organisation may be failing an SLA redirecting work to where there maybe spare capacity.

Allowing you to be connected to each site and having a clear understanding of what work is going through from one central location automated in real time can save countless wasted hours of production and opportunity waiting for a response or a call back.

Understanding all of the Service Level Agreement to each of the jobs to avoid expensive penalties and unhappy clients is key to minimising cost and maximising profitability from all of you sites putting one centralised point in control to make business based decisions.

The benefit of having multiple sites of course is that you can produce more and with an understanding of what is going on with the sites it may allow you to reschedule work from one site to another making you more agile as an organisation and maximising your productivity across the group.

Of course this is not so easy to do but we believe at Ironsides that our Enterprise Manager which comes from our Nor’Star suite of software allows you to do exactly that, it puts management back in control and gives you the ability to make data-informed business decisions, along with easy to run reports from a high-level down to the very last detail.

With Enterprise Manager we consolidate the operational activity between each production site into a central dashboard, by deploying our Automated Production Tracking software on each site it gives us real-time tracking and communication between the tracking clients and the server.

In addition, as Enterprise reporting is Web based, it is easily accessed and retains the historical data of each site should their server develop an issue.

This will allow you to manage all sites from one chosen location, to allow for better distribution of work, minimise risk of missed SLA’s and maximise productivity through all of your sites, ensuring the right equipment or site is faced off against the right work and make it easy to do so, whilst maintaining the same level of audit compliance and reporting.

For customers who also take or have our Automated Cost Analytics module from the Nor’star suite, it forms part of your finance management controls, Enterprise Manager will also deliver a single view of production costs from all sites in real time.

By James Hansen, VP of Sales Europe at Ironsides Technology