Output Management Modern businesses rely on information, much of which resides in reports and other documents that must be distributed across the enterprise. Output management solutions (sometimes referred to as "enterprise report management") deliver these documents these documents to the right users at the right time, and with electronic delivery options, they help companies cut the cost of printing. According to industry analysts, output and output-related issues account for 20% to 30% of IT budgets. To protect large investments in business applications and ensure continuous availability, organizations must implement a best-of-breed, enterprise-wide output management solution. The tactical advantage of output management is to save printing costs and to streamline operations. These uses are usually enough to pay for the software very quickly. But its most strategic us is to tie together different departments within an enterprise, or different enterprises, in a supply chain. In its highest form, Output management becomes a b2b transaction solution that can help companies trade goods, services and information about those transactions. Key Benefits Include · Produce high quality output Output Management helps users to produce the sort of high quality documents that are essential to a modern customer focussed business, without the need to enhance or modify existing systems · Reduce implementation time and costs for output management Output Management can be implemented in a fraction of the time taken by report writing tools or the native capabilities of package solutions · Integrate Enterprise Output Management for legacy and ERP systems Output Management has the advantage that it is portable across all of types of systems, whether they are in house applications or package solutions · Reduce pre-printed stationery costs Output Management can produce forms to standards usually only available from pre-printed stationary. Output Management can eliminate these costs and in addition provides a flexible and customizable solution to output needs · Deliver documents automatically via e-mail, fax, print, archive, and the Web Output Management 2.2 offers support for distributed printing, and can also deliver documents to a wide range of output devices. These automated delivery methods are a vast improvement over costly, paper-intensive systems · Integrate business processes Output Management can help integrate the supply chain and other business processes, where output needs to be distributed automatically to business users, customers, partners, and suppliers using a variety of different media types