Avanti Computer Systems

John Alden, a former Xerox executive, has taken the vice president of sales position at Avanti Computer Systems.

The new Avanti Slingshot print MIS product is leading the way for the Toronto-based company. In the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, Avanti Computer Systems Limited has reported customer growth in the in-plant and commercial print markets.

After a previous investment in PTI Marketing Technologies, Ricoh has made the move to acquire the marketing asset management and solutions provider.

Avanti Computer Systems is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a continued mission to deliver the world’s best Print MIS solution. Since its foundation, Avanti’s development team has continued to dedicate significant time and resources to pioneer Print MIS solutions that address the needs of North America’s leading commercial shops and Fortune 1000 In-plants.

With its acquisition this week of DiMS! organizing print, a developer of MIS/ERP systems for print and packaging companies, EFI continues to extend its reach into the MIS market.

Last week in Toronto, Avanti Computer Systems held its annual User Group conference, with the goal of providing actionable steps that users of Avanti’s MIS systems could take back to their companies and implement.

A popular choice by in-plants seeking print management information systems (MIS), Toronto-based Avanti Computer Systems has long stood out as one of the few remaining print MIS vendors not acquired by EFI. With EFI’s May acquisition of privately held printLEADER, the company now controls about 70 percent of the Print MIS market, according to EFI’s own data.

Ricoh Co., Ltd. has made a multimillion dollar investment in Avanti Computer Systems, a Toronto-based provider of Print Management Information Systems (MIS) solutions. With numerous installations at in-plants, Avanti will now be able to bring its MIS tools to an even broader global market.

More than 2,000 enthusiastic HP users packed the auditorium at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville last month for the opening of the eighth annual Dscoop conference, a gathering of graphic arts business owners and technical professionals who use HP equipment. The three-day meeting included scores of educational sessions geared toward HP users, as well as an exhibit area with nearly 100 partners showing equipment and software designed to work with HP equipment.

It's been more than a month since he passed away, yet I still expect to see our technology editor, Mark Smith, pop his head over the partition wall to make an irreverent observation about someone or something. Mark was pretty damn intelligent. He knew our editing and publishing systems inside and out. I treated him like a human search engine, as if he had the answer to everything. More often than not, he either had the answer or could supply it in short order after a little research.