Avanti on the Rise

In the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, Toronto-based Avanti Computer Systems Limited is reporting strong customer growth in both the in-plant and commercial print markets. This is, in part, due to the success of its new Avanti Slingshot print MIS product.

“Avanti Slingshot is well-positioned as a leading product in the print MIS Industry,” notes Patrick Bolan, president and CEO of Avanti. “After launching just over a year ago, the positive feedback that we’re getting from customers, many of whom were replacing existing legacy Print MIS solutions, validates our decision to build this cloud-based solution from the ground up.”

For printers to compete, he says, they require instantaneous access to all aspects of a job as it moves through the shop, while eliminating breaks in the workflow. When integrated with the various systems within a production environment, and the appropriate external systems, a print MIS can provide efficiency to a printer by identifying key information such as workflow bottlenecks, and by streamlining tasks such as job estimating and scheduling, all of which can save money.

In an effort to bring Avanti Slingshot live as quickly as possible, each system ships with a QuickStart Database, an Estimating Standards Library, and migration and import tools, streamlining the transition from an existing system.

In 2013, Ricoh Co., Ltd. made a multimillion dollar investment in Avanti, which has allowed Avanti to accelerate product development and expand into new markets.