This data can be used for the purposes of department cross-charging, customer billing, analysis, forecasting and/or optimisation decisions on printer fleets. It can determine who has printed what, when, how and where, helping organisations to control their costs by making them visible.

Once this information becomes transparent, a greater understanding of load and cost can be attained. Data can be analysed and used for forecasts; for example, how a print infrastructure might be optimised, or how further savings might be realised.

• Provides ongoing cost accounting of any output job within distributed print environments
  
  
• Key solution building block for a complete Intelligent Office Printing solution and ongoing printer fleet optimisation (by optimising the printer fleet, print costs can be reduced by up to 30%)
  
  
• Provides a unique source of operational data from the entire output production and distribution process for purposes of billing, analysis, forecasting and optimisation
  
  
• Reports can be generated against extracts of data using preferred data analysis and data mining applications
  
  
• Data can be interpreted to provide trend analysis and/or aid scenario planning, e.g. 'what if I changed from printer A to printer B?' or 'what if I move this printer to that department?'