And the really great thing about Prinergy is that if you have one, you don't have to worry about document management. Well, you have to worry a little, but it's an order of magnitude less worry than having just a bunch of files dumped on a server.

I spent this morning in a wrap-up meeting with one of my clients, a VP in a mid-sized company, going over the report I had written on their internal print centre. We got to that point in the meeting where it was, yeah, you've got pages and pages of stuff on the print centre and pages of recommendations, but what is the one thing we should do?

So I said well, the print centre keeps all its business forms on a file server in the closet. Yes, it's backed up but that doesn't make it a system. Like if the print centre manager leaves tomorrow who is going to find all that stuff for reprints? Go buy a Prinergy system (They said they would think about it. They always do. It's not a crisis yet.)

And don't think that this company is the only one out there who has this problem, at least in Vancouver. A few years ago I was chatting with another guy who knew the IT scene pretty well and with regard to internal business documents, isolated islands of manual numbered documents rule.

I wonder if most offset printers realize how damn lucky they are that Prinergy has an Oracle database under the hood. Again, I can only speak of the scene in Vancouver, but there are lot of companies around here who are playing loosey-goosey with their documents, meaning if the right people leave at the wrong time, then they are in a world of trouble.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. That's how us contractors put bread on the table. We wait in the shadows like vultures, and when chaos come we feast on the remains of the battlefield!! Heh, heh, heh...