HSPM presentation 2014
Company Overview
Mission statement:
We want to make secure cost saving print management easy for your company
The company:
Ubiquitech was founded in 2004. The company develops, produces and delivers costefficient, secure, user-friendly intelligent print management solutions based on open
platform. The solutions are based on the unique, award winning Ubiquitech printing
systems.
Ubiquitech has 10 years market experience and technical knowledge. We have
experience from many projects with flexible high-end solutions to the financial
market, governmental organizations and many other industries.
Company headquarters is located in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ubiquitech is working in partnership with some of the world’s leading IT and printer
manufacturers.
Print – part of IT infrastructure
IT
Print
Network
Support Organization
Central managed from Denmark
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3 highly skilled support engineers (closely connected to Development)
Trac system (ticket system)
Remote access to customer
On site if needed (together with partner)
Software Development
Ubiquitech Matrix development organisation
7 engineers - Managed from Denmark
Subcontractors in:
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India
Italy
USA
Only ”One” software
Developed in modules on Open Platform
Easy Configurable
Development
UBIQUITECH Software Design Process
Definition
Phase 1
Planning
Phase 2
Design
Phase 3
Test
Phase 4
Release
Phase 5
PRD
PDD
R&D QA Plan
Arc. Draft Design
Test specification and report doc
R&D QA plan updated
Test report, RC SW
Test report, PR SW
QA plan update
Release note
Archive checklist
Build info
Project
Planning
Product
Requirement
Document.
Product Roll out activities
Quality
Plan
Project Management
Architect.
Design
Spec.
Ticket
Design
Spec’s
Proof
Of
Conc.
Release
Cand.
Customer
testing
Tech. Rev.
Beta rel.
RC
PR
PR rel.
Release
Note
Archive
Project
Lessons
Learned
Gate 1
Review
Gate 2
Review
Gate 4
Review
Gate 5
Review
Development
UBIQUITECH Support and Software Change Process
Customer or Internal Request
Pipeline
Ticket
Enhancement
Test
Changes
Release
Product
Yes
Support Request
Defect
Implement
Changes
New
Ticket
Evaluate
Request
Accepted
?
No
TRAC Ticket record
Close
Ticket
Development
UBIQUITECH Design and Test Levels
Requirement
Activity
Verification
Customer Approval
Product
Requirement
Document
Specification & Function
SW Integration
System
Design
SW Module
Module
Design
Implementation
Source file
Gate 4
Review
(Validation)
Production Test
Pilot Test,
Candidate Test
Module Test
Code Reviews
Verification
Reviews
Partner Sale
• Print Management Solutions:
• Ubiquitech have today approx. 300 customer solutions in operations approx. 600.000 users – primary on Linux platform.
• Sales Chanel:
• Ubiquitech are selling globally via partners within Print & IT business.
– South America, USA and Canada
– Europa
– Middle East
– Scandinavian – Primary Denmark and Sweden
Organisation
Customer
New/More
Bizz
Reseller
Operation
Sale/
Presale
Support
Delivery
MPiTech
IBM
Products
EASY – Small and Medium customer
EASY is a server-based out of the box print management solution for Small and Medium
business.
VDMS - Large and Enterprise customer
VDMS is a server-based solution for large business- and Enterprise customers
HSPM – Enterprise customer
HSPM (High Volume Secure Print Management)
Public Print solution
Payment solution to: Libraries, Airports, Hotels etc.
Facility Features & Options
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Pull printing
Push printing
Cloud printing
Failover
Fallback
Embedded clients
Card Swipe
Finger Scan
Hardware terminals
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Job Accounting
LDAP Integration
SSL encryption
Print rules
Client Billing
Print
Payment solution
MultiDomain Monitor
Mobile Printing
Area of Competition
The story of printing…
Print handled centrally
from mainframe
By the end of the
eighties print was
handled by Microsof
printservere, working
decentrally
From 1959 and 20-30
years forward IBM
dominated the
market for print, e.g.
By the 1401
1960
1970
1980
1990
ELS advantage
All
Stability &
Performance
Savings
Pull Print from
Host
Pull Print – Tracking, accounting, reporting, security, rules
etc.
Environment
MF
The solution inside ELS
Formatting
print job
Formatting
print job
Easy implementation- and
2) When the user swipes her card at the
seedless
maintenance
MFP of choice,
the ELS recognizes the
type of printer. In this case a Ricoh MFP
3) A Ricoh Print Definition File together
with the generic CUPS-driver formats the
One
theMFP
same driver installed at every
print• job
for and
the Ricoh
workstation
• Since the users identifies themselves at printers (by
swiping) no relations between print queues and users
need to be set up
• No print drivers are to be handled and only a handful of
4) The job is printed at the
Print Definitions Files are to be maintained
on ELS
Ricoh MFP
1) The only
installed
on users can be handled in the
• All brands
andthing
types
of printers
workstation is a generic driver (Linux
solution
CUPS-driver)
When the user prints the print job it is
Thestored
solution
takes the
preformatted and
on also
holding
queue on ELS heavy print load off the Citrix
environment
Ubiquitech HSPM- Intelligent Print Management
• Secure printing going from Push to Pull printing
• Savings on number of printers
• Rules for Black/White-printing and Duplex
– Savings on paper, toner
 Users pull print jobs from
printer giving
 No lost prints
 No problems with
printers out of order
 Easy handling of users and
print queues
Customer Profile – HSPM
Large Business and Governmental areas:
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Typical regional main offices and many local offices
Centrally manage IT infrastructure
Solid network with capacity for consolidation
Heavy print load on host print and office print
Primary Verticals:
• Banking and Finance
• Insurance
Other Verticals:
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Pharmaceutical Industry
Food and beverages
Transportation – Aviation and freight transport
Shipping
ELS Solutions
Existing mainframes world wide
80.000 customers
Potential new customers for mainframes
80.000 customers
Average Mainframe customer:
Number of print servers
MFPs
Printers
Employees
over
Solution value
10-1.000
1.000
1.500
5.000
Euro
500.000 – 2.500.000
Business case
Ubiquitech is unique:
Security
• Possibility for different levels of
security
• Encryption – from workstation all
way to the printer
• Cloud and failover solutions
Support
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Print as an integrated part of the
IT solution
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Configurable solutions
• Developed in modules and easy
configurable
• API enables integration, for instance
to ERP and Business intelligens
• Configure options on the workstation
• Configure reports, rules, registration
for payment etc.
• Mobile printing as an integrated part
of the solution
High level knowledge
Ubiquitech server can run on all
platforms: Windows, Linux and
Mainframes
Only Ubiquitech does not violate
Intelligent Print Management
Patents
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Patents in Europe, US and Hong Kong
THANK YOU.