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working in a global covid pandemic. Interest in cloud-enabled workflows through the packaging industry got seriously accelerated by the Covid pandemic, not least due to the spike in demand
with 69 percent considering moving additional appli- cations and services to the cloud. Flexo Market News spoke exclusively with Jan De Roeck, Marketing Director Industry Relations & Strat- egy at Esko, about the future of cloud technology and the ways in which it can help lead companies above their competition. Q) Why did Esko feel it was the right time to re- lease the report? What internal discussions led to the report’s release? A) Our transition from on-premise software toward a Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) plat-form has been has been going on for some time now.An import- ant supporting milestone happened last year with the publication of our Digital Maturity Model. Designed to help management teams meet the growing need to strategically address business digitization, automation and connection, the DMM was unveiled at the begin- ning of 2020, just as the scale of the global pandemic was be-coming apparent. While cloud computing is nothing new for Esko – our WebCenter and Cape Pack solutions are web-based – the relevance of this initiative grew throughout the year, as we were picking up insights and learnings from our customers’ operational challenges related to
for working remotely and sharing jobs between facto- ries to overcome supply chain instability. So here we are with the release of this new version of Automation Engine,which we now also roll out with a SaaS deploy- ment option. Customers can benefit from new devel- opments in user experience, either in an on-premise deployment or in a cloud deployment. To further underscore our intentions and plans for
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Designed with input from HP Indigo experts, our Parts Washer (model number A-44213-A) was created specifically to clean parts from HP Indigo digital presses. It speeds productivity through an extra long flush hose for direct hands-free flushing of press parts. The Graymills abrasive resistant pump, twin filtration system, and rugged power-coated steel construction are up to the challenge of cleaning with imaging oil. DOES AN HP INDIGO NEED ITS OWN PARTS WASHER? They Thought So.
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