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California Healthcare System Selects OM Plus

OM Plus has recently been selected by a large healthcare system located in California. This customer has purchased OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) output management system to improve the efficiency of documents created by its Cerner EMR system. DM will improve system reliability, scalability, and supportability reducing IT labor significantly and improving the customer print experience.

The customer also acquired OM Plus My-Print-Delivery (MPD) for pull-print (follow me print style) printing to increase print security and compliance as well as reducing costs. The MPD system will incorporate the Imprivata feature built into the MPD system. OM Plus MPD is the only Imprivata certified solution available in the market at the moment.

The system will also include OM Plus Stats Manager (SM) so that that customer can capture user and device based print statistics. Capturing and reporting on print statistics enables the customer to modify the print behavior in the organization to further reduce costs. Plus Technologies is partnering with Coretek Services on this project.

Get to Know Plus Technologies

Meet Plus Technologies’ Employees. This will be a series of blogs (posted approximately once a month) that will focus on a different employee each time.

Plus Technologies Services Manager is Keith Reinig and he has been with with Plus Technologies for 14 years. Keith is married with 2 children and some of his favorite hobbies include gaming and camping.

Furthermore, Keith is involved with implementing complex OM Plus solutions in our healthcare market and is directly involved with some of our larger customers in that market. In addition, Keith has also become involved in the development of the upcoming new release of the OM Plus Delivery Manager Web Client which is expected around mid year.

Keith shares what he likes about working here at Plus Technologies:
“One of the best things about working here is that I am constantly facing new challenges. I rarely work on the same problem 2 days in a row” – Keith

Plus Technologies is now Active with Spiceworks

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks is a network that brings together IT professionals. Spicework users can collaborate and seek advice from one another and are also able to purchase IT-related services and products from the Spiceworks marketplace. This community is estimated to be used by more than six million IT professionals.

Plus Technologies is now an active contributor to the Spiceworks knowledge community. We currently have active discussion in the following sections: “Printers, Copiers, Scanners & Faxes”, “Cloud & SaaS Computing”, and “HEALTHCARE.”

Stats Manager for Color Print Reporting on Kyocera Devices

Plus Technologies is deploying an OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) and Stats Manager (SM) system to provide detailed user statistics. The customer is a Spanish conglomerate with a number of subsidiaries, including Citrus production. They have all Kyocera printers as well as Zebra that are used on the production floor.

The primary need is for print reporting from it’s Kyocera (Kyocera T300-ofi) devices, including color pages. This need will satisfied with Stats Manager, using OM Plus as the data collecting source. Raw print data is collected by Delivery Manager and exported into Stats Manager where reports are scheduled, created and distributed without having to install Stats Manager database at the customer site. A key usage report provides color page counts so that costs can be contained. Additionally, Plus Technologies’ Spanish partner Sistel was involved in the gathering of requirements and re-sold the system.

OM Plus Stats Manager to Expand Capabilities

Plus Technologies is developing an enhanced version of OM Plus Stats Manager (SM) software. Currently, SM is an OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) option that collects print spooler data such as user, pages, copies, device, date/time, and more to provide our customers with a view of print activity and cost.

Plus technologies is currently in development of new features including:

• A data collector (DDC) that will collect device data such prints (color and mono) , copies, scans, fax, and toner swaps.
• Import feature that allows this device data into the SM database.
• Merge with print data from DM print spooler software.
• Track device by department and location.
• New reports to show device level activity and costs by activity type.
• New reports that compares device usage by location/dept to help determine bench-marks and find outlyers.

SAP Discontinuing Support the Classic RFC Libraries after March 31st

SAP has announced a planned discontinuation of support for their Classic RFC libraries. This discontinuation will happen by the end of March 2016 and this change would apply to SAP version 7.2 and earlier. In the meantime, Plus Technologies will continue to support its current version of the BC-XOM interface. In addition, Plus Technologies has re-certified OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) print spooler software for the new BC-XOM 4.0. BC-XOM 4.0 will support SAP for releases beyond 7.2.

For more information, please contact Plus Technologies

Delivery Manager Web Client Improvements Underway

Plus Technologies is currently making improvements to the Delivery Manager (DM) Web Client. Moreover, this project is in development and the goal is to make the Web Client ‘state of the art.’

Some of the new improvements:

• Designed for workstation, tablet, and phone formats
• Dynamic screen sizing and orientation
• Keeps some of the elements of the old look that worked well and changes where needed
• Search boxes added
• Columns can be moved, renamed, re-sized, sorted, and/or removed
• Drag & drop function for moving jobs
• User define-able permissions/roles define what commands individuals can see/use

Furthermore, improvements are underway in development and phase one is expected to be done around mid year. Additionally, for more information, please contact Plus Technologies