When Microsoft introduced Office 365, it took the corporate world by storm! The innovative software as a service (SaaS) solution offered users access to their favourite Microsoft Office productivity tools from one single platform.

Productivity levels soared for corporate users, with enterprises across the world purchasing the SaaS subscription for their organizations. With additional products catered specifically for business environments, such as Skype for Business and SharePoint, Office 365 has become a mainstay for most organizations.

As new, innovative SaaS solutions are introduced into the market, they also bring along their own challenges.

In today’s corporate world, decision makers are constantly looking for ways to improve their organizational efficiency through the effective adoption and implementation of the latest technologies.

With printing being an integral part of many enterprise workflows and processes, vendors in the managed print services industry introduced “pull printing”, a secure printing mechanism which only permits authorized users to obtain their hardcopy documents from printers.

Pull printing consists of users sending print jobs from their workstations to be stored on a virtual print queue within a print server.

As the global trend towards cloud based solutions increases, enterprises are starting to look to the cloud and software as a service (SaaS) for answers to all of their problems.

With printing being an integral part of day to day business across most enterprises, cloud print management definitely provides answers to many of the problems that organizations encountered with traditional enterprise print management.

Enterprises often conduct audits to ensure that they are meeting compliance requirements and efficiently making their way towards achieving their goals.

Audits provide organizations with suggestions as to where they can improve in their business processes, and often deliver valuable information assisting organizations in meeting their objectives.

In companies deploying complex enterprise printing environments, senior officers are constantly looking for ways to save money and reduce the burden of print management placed on the IT department.

This is where print analytics comes into the picture! Print analytics allows organizations to better understand the processes and effects related to document printing, and provides a comprehensive look at the impact that printing has on multiple levels.