EFI acquires Prism

EFI has acquired Prism Group, the developer of Prism Win MIS and Prism QTMS workflow software headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. With further operations in New Zealand, UK and the US, Prism’s software is used by commercial, direct mail and packaging printers around the world.

‘We continue to actively seek out additional Print ERP/MIS solutions worldwide to consolidate,’ said Marc Olin, senior VP and GM of EFI’s APPS business unit. ‘By concentrating our investment and efforts on Monarch, Radius, Pace and PrintSmith, we can insure that the largest development and support teams in the industry are delivering the best possible solutions to give our clients the best chance to succeed in today’s challenging business environment.’

EFI intends to continue supporting and developing Prism Win, which has been renamed EFI Prism, but will no longer offer it to new customers. In addition, EFI will continue to support and develop QTMS (now EFI QTMS) but no longer offers it to new customers. Instead, it will offer new clients EFI Auto-Count DMI for automated shop floor data collection and real-time shop floor production visibility and embed the best of QTMS features into the Auto-Count system.

‘EFI has historically supported all of its ERP/MIS offerings for many years even after it stopped actively selling them,’ said the company in a statement. ‘For example, the PSI, Logic and Covalent software systems are all legacy ERP/MIS applications that EFI continues to support. For Prism clients that wish to move to a new platform, EFI will be offering special incentives to encourage them to transition to one of our four platforms, as well as transition assistance to help make the move as seamless as possible.’

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