Whilst celebrating the 20th birthday of Prinergy Workflow, Kodak unveiled Prinergy VME, an updated version of the software that is backed up by the cloud.
Going forward VME customers’ Prinergy software will be hosted and managed by Kodak as well as being supported by a $1billion research and development investment from Microsoft Azure. Kodak will also assume responsibility for system care, with data backups distributed across several data centres. This means that customers are no longer required to operate, manage or maintain any servers directly onsite.
‘Prinergy VME with Managed Services is industry-first innovation that combines state-of-the-art cloud technology with our Managed Services under a subscription model,’ said Todd Bigger, president of Kodak’s Software Division. ‘This product offering marks the future for all prepress and print workflow software platforms. The one-of-a kind solution guarantees reliability and optimised performance, protecting customers against cyber attacks with maximum flexibility to adapt as the marketplace changes.’
The first European Kodak customer to implement and use the new software is Dutch company Wilco Printing & Binding. ‘Working in the cloud is the future,’ said chief operating officer William Schuring. ‘Utilising the new software gives us unprecedented data security and a much better ROI compared to an on premises server environment.’
