If you’re researching software to digitize and streamline your print business, you may have been confused by all the different terms and abbreviations we suppliers may use.
Let us explain what they all mean, so you can find the right software for your print business.
First of all, let’s get out the three main phrases you might have heard about:
We refer to our software as 'Business Workflow Software' because it covers every aspect of a business workflow - from sales and estimating, to production and delivery.
While it’s clear that Business Workflow Software is a better description for what our software does, you will find us using both phrases still, for SEO purposes – that’s because there are around 2,400 monthly Google searches for the phrase “Management Information System” and only 10 a month for the phrase “Business Workflow Software”. So while we might not agree with the limits of the phrase “print MIS” we know that’s how the market describes our product, and so we roll with it!
You may also see the below phrases being used intermittently in place of “Print MIS” or “Workflow Management Software”, but these are actually different types of software applications used for different purposes:
We have created a guide to help you learn more about the key software solutions that are used in the printing, packaging, and label industries. The most important piece of software for a print provider is an MIS solution, and we have started with an explanation of what this does, along with the different phrases to describe it. We’ve also included details of all the main types of software applications that connect to an MIS solution, and how each integration works.
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