UNISPOOL Distributed Output Management provides an integrated solution for heterogeneous enterprise networks.
It encapsulates all major components in the areas of:
- Network-wide output file transfer
- Output file management
- Fully automated operations
- Output file viewing and processing
- Integration with electronic forms design and processing
UNISPOOL enables users to access all output devices on the network, wherever they are and however they are connected. Its modular architecture provides scalability of functions from a simple transfer mechanism up to a totally integrated automated and managed output management system.
UNISPOOL can be used to enhance the very basic output management capabilities of the UNIX operating system, for example. At the other end of spectrum, UNISPOOL enables data center managers to automate and flexibly manage their entire, often complex output environment, rendering it completely transparent to the majority of users. Even if this environment is comprised of a mix of UNIX systems, proprietary or mainframe systems, and PC LAN networks.
UNISPOOL is the market leader in output management solutions that enables users to:
- access a virtually unlimited number of output destinations, with flexible status enquiry.
- fully integrate PC clients running Windows, Windows '95 and NT into the corporate output network.
- fully integrate PC-based local area networks, using NetWare, OS/2 LAN Manager and NT file servers, into the corporate output network.
- direct output to printer directly connected into the corporate network, providing flexible resource sharing services.
- fully automatic transfer to output destinations, using a wide selection of file related data.
- bundle output destinations to optimize device utilization.
- view output files, and mine for specific information.
- burst output files into sub-sections and transfer these to different output destinations.
All these benefits are provided within the context of:
- an output management service which is centrally configured and managed.
- network, system and output destination monitoring using a Microsoft Windows based graphical user interface.
- flexible user control using point and click ease of use in a Microsoft Windows graphical user interface.
- pre-definable, multi-level access security settings Microsoft Windows.
- optimal usage of network resources with flexible transfer criteria and dynamic connections.
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