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PV16: Overhead Allocation Scenarios
Let’s continue to look at some of the nice new features in PV16. Today: Overhead Allocation Scenarios. The Scenarios tool (Hourly Rate Calculator) is meant to assist in calculating the hourly rates used on the cost centers – and can be a tremendous help for our Partners and Customers. Generally, this tool considers all the […]
Read morePV16: Power BI
Let’s continue to look at some of the nice new features in PV16. Today: Power BI. With each release PrintVis continues to enhance our integration with Microsoft Power BI, which combines multiple software services and apps to create rich data visualization and business intelligence. PV16 ships with an attractive set of default reports – ready […]
Read morePV16: Multi-Company Functionality
Let’s continue to look at some of the nice new features we presented to customers last week in lieu of DRUPA… With DRUPA postponed until April 2021, we thought we’d share what we’d be doing if we were in Düsseldorf right now, which would be giving introductory demos of the latest in PrintVis to the thousands […]
Read morePV16: Quick Quote Questionnaire
Let’s continue to look at some of the nice new features we presented to customers last week in lieu of DRUPA… With DRUPA postponed until April 2021, we thought we’d share what we’d be doing if we were in Düsseldorf right now, which would be giving introductory demos of the latest in PrintVis to the thousands of […]
Read morePV16: The PrintVis Planning Board
In Lieu of DRUPA… With DRUPA postponed until April 2021, we thought we’d share what we’d be doing if we were in Düsseldorf right now, which would be giving introductory demos of the latest in PrintVis to the thousands of passers-by at the world’s largest print industry trade show. Our latest release, PV16 was officially launched last […]
Read morePV16: A Look at the Modern Client
In Lieu of DRUPA… With DRUPA postponed until April 2021, we thought we’d share what we’d be doing if we were in Düsseldorf right now, which would be giving introductory demos of the latest in PrintVis to the thousands of passers-by at the world’s largest print industry trade show. Our latest release, PV16 was officially […]
Read moreRapidStart – For a Faster, Smarter ERP Implementation
As most print companies know, the greatest and most common barrier to adopting a new ERP system, whether moving from an existing system or implementing from scratch, is the very serious concern of downtime. The modern print industry is so highly competitive – deadlines are tight and profit margins are often so thin that businesses […]
Read morePartnership Power and Pursuing a Proven Vertical
Recently a group of members from the PrintVis team found ourselves entrenched in the lovely facilities of the Microsoft Technology Center in Alpharetta, Georgia, engaged in intensive training with a collection of our newer Partners from North America. Motivated colleagues from Archerpoint, Sabre Limited and Captiva had all come to learn PrintVis – what is it, how […]
Read more5 Great Reasons to Consider the Cloud
Did you know you can “rent” your print MIS system as a monthly subscription and escape the traditional, up-front investment of perpetual licenses and hardware? You get all the print-specific functionality of PrintVis in the full ERP of Dynamics 365 Business Central, it’s just not rooted in your own server room anymore. Here are […]
Read moreThe Ultimate Package for Your Packaging Business
As the owner of a packaging business, what would you rather do? Constantly chase your shifting customer base, or stand ready and able to adapt your customers’ changing needs and behaviors, with both feet firmly planted? The trend toward digital within the packaging industry is unquestionably on an upward trajectory. This means a lot more […]
Read moreWhy Reinvent the Wheel?
PrintVis focuses on the unique needs of the print industry, and we let the core ERP functionality be handled by Microsoft – based on feedback from a huge customer base and a large partner community. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a proven ERP system used by thousands of companies around the world. Microsoft relies […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Released
First release on the new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Modern Client Final release with Windows Client and C/Side development environment Available for use in browser, Windows 10 desktop app, mobile apps on Android and iOS, or in Outlook New Features and Bug Fixes, including a basic, out-of-the-box JDF Integration Watch the PrintVis 2020 video […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: AGFA Packages
Taking a leap into creating some out-of-the-box JDF integration, PrintVis 2020 ships with the first of several predefined levels of integration (“packages”) for communication between PrintVis and AGFA prepress software. Each of these levels will provide documented examples for the required setup of jobs and their individual data flows. Well-structured and documented, you can now simply […]
Read morePrintVis Partner Spotlight: Rainbow CrossMedia
It’s great to have a chance to introduceRainbow Crossmedia on the PrintVis website. We are based in the Netherlands and have been working in the Navision/Microsoft Dynamics world since the early 2000’s. For a good while we implemented Navision at all different types of businesses. But since 2008 Rainbow Crossmedia has focused specifically on the print […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: Pages Redesigned for All-New Modern Client
As Business Central migrates from the Windows Client to the Modern Client, many aspects of the page design needed to be reviewed and optimized. The Consultant team at PrintVis each reviewed their specialized areas to make the Modern Client pages functional and set up according to best practices. We thoughtfully reviewed all aspects of the […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: Multi-Company Functionality
The print industry has seen a spate of mergers and acquisitions, especially over the last decade, with many larger companies absorbing small-but-innovative digital startups and adding them to their portfolio of services, expanding both their geographical reach and their product lines. If you have a growing business organization that includes multiple partner companies under one […]
Read morePrintVis Live on INKISH TV
Last week, INKISH.news launched their new online webinar series, “Learn With Us,” and PrintVis is proud to have given the debut presentation. Here you can enjoy a pleasant and informative discussion with INKISH’s Morten Reitoft, PrintVis CEO Kasper Tomshøj and Senior Consultant Kit Tomshøj, along with a video presentation on print price calculation methods. They discuss […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: Advanced Warehouse Management
Microsoft now includes Advanced Warehousing in their base Essentials license, so for 2020 we have added new features which make PrintVis connect more directly and deeply with this important functionality in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Deployed within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Financials, PrintVis integrates with Warehouse Management to let a print company configure the system for […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: Shop Floor Role Center Updates
For 2020, we have made a nice round of improvements to the Shop Floor Role Center. The Production Plan is now available in both Tile and List Views, set on a per-User basis. We received feedback from some operators who preferred the more extended job information displayed in the List view. Tiles for recording indirect […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: Esko Label Integration
Companies who manufacture labels for the food & beverage, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and similar industries can see great benefit from full or partial automation of their workflow, where there are frequent repeat orders of large quantities, often produced on narrow web (by flexographic and digital presses), and often including inline die-cutting and finishing. In commercial printing, […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: Multi-Web Management
Newspaper printing houses have production requirements that distinguish them from commercial web-offset printing, because of the large number of pages and multiple components (stitched inserts and different substrates, for example) in the finished product. Most will use several connected units for printing different colors of ink, and many include in-line cutting, collating and folding […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: Tools Selection for the Label Industry
For our latest release, PrintVis has created a guide that will display possible combinations of machines, print cylinders and dies for specific product parameters. This is specifically intended to further support PrintVis customers in the narrow web label production industry. When a customer requests a label product of certain size and shape, the PrintVis Tools […]
Read morePrintVis 2020 Highlights: New Standard reports for Power BI
With each release PrintVis continues to enhance our integration with Microsoft Power BI. This combines multiple software services and apps to create rich data visualization and business intelligence. PrintVis 2020 ships with an attractive set of default reports, ready to use out of the box, for Power BI. Users can take advantage of attractive and […]
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