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Profectus significantly reduces your risk of failure by
helping your
organization make the right choice.
The wrong software choice has cost printing companies
hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted on software,
hardware, training, lost production, and investment
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Using our
proven methodology the entire process only takes 8 to 12
weeks to thoroughly narrow down a list of over
150 products to a single “Best Fit” solution for
your organization. |
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Eliminates the need for your organization to
spend hundreds of hours & thousands of dollars
researching products (paging
through websites
and trade publications, filling out
web forms, contacting vendors, waiting for responses, talking
to sales reps,
reading through
literature, and sitting
through
incompatible product demos) |
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You will be confident that you have considered the
full gamut of products and options, and that you have not failed to consider a
unfamiliar qualified system. |
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Our
experience with preparing system Request For Proposals
(RFP), contract negotiations, and vendor strategies will
protect your interests, maximizes your buying power,
lowers your investment costs, and saves you costly errors. |
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Our expertise,
professionalism, and educational skills will bring credibility to
your project and promote employee buy-in; greatly improving your
selection process as well as the implementation of the selected
solution. |
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Our
services and recommendations are based on first hand
knowledge and in-depth understanding of software derived
from exposure to hundreds of printers and over 25-years
of evaluating systems, receiving demonstrations,
attending training classes, analyzing product proposals,
managing implementations, reviewing product
documentation, participating in user groups and industry
committees, and studying the latest trends. |
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Business
& Production Management Software
Selection Consulting
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Invest in technology that fits your needs |
Finding the best print management software for your printing business can be
extremely challenging. Especially with over 150 products to choose from. You
hope to make the right decision, but you do not have the
expertise, time, or resources to thoroughly evaluate the
countless systems to make an informative and
confident decision.
Profectus can reduce your risk of failure with the
printing and packaging industry's most acknowledged solution for evaluating and selecting
business and production management software. Our print management software selection services are designed to help printing organizations confidently find a
solution that will best fit their needs. It is based on a
proven methodology that has evolved from 25-years of helping
printing organizations evaluate, purchase, and implement systems.
 Funnel Strategy
Using a “Funnel Strategy” we
initially benchmark your requirements against over
150 printing industry management systems and through a logical
cycle we filter out the unsuitable products, eventually leading your
organization to a best-fit solution. You will be confident that you
have considered all options before investing in a system.
Profectus proven
and objective
software selection approach
can help your organizations thoroughly analyze
over
150 software products
to find the single “Best Fit” solution
for your organization. The entire process only
takes between 8 and 12 weeks!
 Proprietary
Product Database - We’ve invested over 15 years and thousands
of hours developing a comprehensive database of over 200 software
products available to the printing
and packaging
industry and their capabilities.
Our proprietary database contains over 100,000 software
functions and features available in products covering every aspect
of a system; from e-commerce, through order entry, production, JDF,
and accounting. We are constantly updating this database as products
change and new products enter the market. This powerful database
helps our customers rapidly find software solutions based on factual
data rather than sales hype and emotions.
Detail Requirements - One of our senior consultants
works with your team to identify and prioritize your business and
software requirements referencing our proprietary database of over
1,500 software functions available in systems. Requirements are
defined for all aspects of a system:
Hardware
Internet e-Commerce
Web-To-Print
CRM
Sales
Estimating
Pricing |
Order Entry|
Change Orders
Scheduling
Production
Job Tracking
Shop Data Collection
CIM/JDF/JMF |
Shipping
Purchasing
Raw Inventory
Finished Inventory
Job Costing
Billing/Invoicing
Accounts Receivable |
Accounts Payable
General Ledger
Payroll
Fixed Assets
EDI/XML
Reports
KPI Benchmarks |
Search for Best-Fit Solution -
Analysis of products to identify a short list of products
that come closest to your organization’s requirements using
our proprietary product database.
Request For Proposal (RFP)
- A system
Request For Proposal (RFP) ready to send to
software vendors so you receive competitive prices and the
appropriate information to support your software investment
decision and protect your investment.
Product Comparison Study -
A comprehensive
product comparison study that weighs
the capabilities of each product against your requirements.
Proposals Review - Interpretation and analysis of vendor proposals with your team
to identify the suitable and cost prohibitive products .
Product Demonstrations
- Our consultants orchestrate and manage the product demos so you
receive a good representation of how each product will function in
your environment.
Demonstration Scripts
- Our consultants work with your team to develop detail scripts for
the prospective vendors to follow during their onsite
demonstration so your team gets a fair comparison of each
product.
Product Evaluation
Tools - We provide your team with numerous evaluation
tools designed to help each team member document and track each
product’s and make an informed decision.
Unbiased Recommendations
- Profectus is a vendor-independent organization. We do not sell
software, develop software, or represent any of the software
providers. The products we consider and the recommendations we
provide are absolutely unbiased.
Contract Negotiations
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Our experience with vendor strategies for pricing and working
through contract issues can protect your interests, maximize your
buying power, lower your investment costs, and can save you costly
errors.
Return-On-Investment Analysis - Often a return on investment analysis
is needed to support the
justification and approval of software expenditures. Using
your organization's figures, Profectus
can prepare
a detail report that identifies the potential
return-on-investment your company could realize from a
system on
numerous areas including sales
growth, resource reduction, inventory management, productivity,
waste reduction,
and
cash flow.
"Most systems will pay for themselves in the
first year when properly selected and implemented."
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Testimonials |
"Profectus'
knowledge of the systems available on the market to be
invaluable. He was able to guide us through
understanding our requirements for a new system and
matched them up perfectly to a solution that best satisfied
our requirements."
Wisconsin,
640 employees, 3 locations,
Sheetfed, Flexography, Digital, Commercial, Packaging
"Profectus' work was a critical
factor in the success of a large project. His industry and business
process knowledge were invaluable.”
Minneapolis,
220 employees,
Commercial, Quick, Flexography, Sheetfed, Web
“We wanted to make
sure we considered every possible solution before making such an important and expensive decision
investing in management software.”
California, 300 employees,
Commercial Printer
“Our small 20 employee
company could not afford to have our people away from their every day jobs while researching software and
sitting through demos. Profectus saved us at least 150 hours in employee’s time.”
Pennsylvania, 20 employees,
Commercial Printer
“We’re printers.
Profectus has been doing this for 20 years. Profectus brought expertise we did not have within our
organization. We can’t be experts at everything!”
Kansas, 100 Employees,
Screen Printer
“The process Profectus
employed taught us things about our business we never realized.”
Texas, 125 employee,
Commercial Printer
“Profectus’ knowledge,
professionalism, and educational skills brought credibility to the project and promoted employee buy-in,
greatly improving the selection process as well as the implementation of the selected solution.”
Washington, 35 employees,
In-plant Printer
“The price for
Profectus' services was incredibly minimal compared to the value it brought us and money we saved.”
Arizona, 150 employees,
Commercial Printer
“Failure was not an option. So we brought in the
experts.”
Portland, 175 employees, Commercial Printer
Read more testimonials from our
customers
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price of our business management software evaluation and selection
consulting services are based on the unique needs and situation of
each client. Our fees are
very reasonable and less then the money we save our clients
and the value
of our guidance.
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