Driving ‘Movable Data’ in the Right Direction

Moving to the Cloud
Digital workflows are yet about to take a another new direction. Although Application Software Provider (ASP) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) have been around for some time, “the Cloud” is now fundamentally changing the way data is being stored, routed and handled. Hiflex, already having shown an iPhone application at Drupa 2008, is taking the lead with its next major release of Hiflex MIS—called version 2012 or “drupa-release.” It will take the complete management information system to the cloud. In this way, both Hiflex MIS and Webshop can be entirely operated via the Internet and installed and executed on a server in a printer’s facility (a so-called “private cloud”), in an external data center (“public cloud”) or at the Hiflex Data Center (‘Hiflex cloud’).