Challenge “I am a strong believer in the need for printing companies to have an eff ective MIS solution,” says Brian Baarman, vice president of fi nance and administration at Holland Litho. “We’ve had MIS in place for more than a decade, but in 2011, we determined that our existing solution was not positioning us well for growth.” Baarman took a couple of days to develop a list of all of the characteristics he wanted in a print MIS solution, resulting in a spreadsheet with 160 parameters. “I sent this off to all of the major MIS players as a Request for Information,” he says. “Their responses allowed me to narrow my selection down to two players.” Holland Litho has a strong portfolio of off set and digital presses; a key requirement was the need to support both with the comp

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