Astute customers know that the price of their print materials is only a fraction of what they will ultimately pay. A host of hidden costs – inefficient processes, storage, distribution, waste and obsolescence – can more than double their costs. Lack of timely access to marketing collateral spells missed opportunity. Committed to delivering the lowest total cost of ownership, Mount Vernon is at the forefront of technology that adds value across the print lifecycle. We focus on both sides of the value equation to minimize costs and maximize sales.
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Backed by the industry’s leading print production and fulfillment capabilities, including the world’s most advanced digital footprint, WorkSmart Suite™ is part of an end-to-end solution for creating, distributing and managing break-through marketing campaigns. Adopt the entire suite or choose individual applications to meet specific needs.
Streamline is a Web2Print solution that provides 24/7 access, customization, and ordering capabilities while bringing new levels of efficiency and control.
Available at the click of a mouse, Streamline allows users, across the nation or around the globe, to order everything they need to move quickly in capturing market opportunities. A powerful tool that provides easy access to marketing materials, Streamline enables the creation of timely and targeted communications. Everything that promotes your brand – from brochures and business cards to promotional items and direct mail campaigns – comes from a centralized system that will enforce brand standards, eliminate errors and protect your quality image.
Streamline saves time and money by reducing steps and “touches". It provides stronger control over purchasing and captures transactions in easy-to-read reports. Linked to our international print production and fulfillment capabilities, including the world’s largest digital printing footprint, Streamline delivers an end-to-end solution that reduces waste, inefficiency, storage and shipping costs.
Connect taps the power of personalization and uses multiple touch points across a variety of media to build customer relationships and improve your campaigns.
Connect allows you to use your database to create a one-on-one conversation with each of your customers and prospects. With highly relevant and focused messages, you make smarter connections that engage target audiences, drive sales and build loyalty. By linking various technologies, including variable-data direct mail, personalized websites – even social media – Connect extends your reach and reinforces your messages, delivering an interactive experience that prompts people to act.
By creating a two-way conversation, Connect enriches your database to further enhance personalized communication. Built-in response mechanisms provide a flow of feedback that is the basis for increasingly focused and effective messages while sophisticated analytics show exactly what triggers the best response.
Using personalization, Connect increases marketing relevance to improve response rates, lower the cost per response and make every dollar invested work smarter for you. Leads become hot prospects. Prospects are more easily converted into sales. And stronger relationships translate into loyal repeat customers.
Organize brings order to your company’s valuable digital assets, preserving them in a secure, easy-to-use online library and facilitating efficient sharing. It brings thousands of files together in a central location, organizes them for easy retrieval and provides instant online access to authorized users.
Your assets are organized into directories and hierarchies that provide easy access with precise control. Virtually every feature can be turned on for a specific account or user group so you can tailor permission levels to the broadest range of internal and external users. Complete control over access, modification and usage ensures that your company’s assets will be protected. Powered by a state-of-the-art, Level 4 data center and protected by robust backup processes, Organize ensures the ultimate in data security and integrity.
Organize puts the sum total of your company’s marketing assets at the fingertips of those charged with ordering reprints, updating collateral or creating new campaigns. Fully expandable, it can start small and grow with your company.
On June 1, 2011,Consolidated Graphics opened a new, top tier data center in Houston, TX. The center was designed in collaboration with HP, a partner of Consolidated Graphics, and incorporates advanced high-density HP servers, storage, and networking systems needed to power the company's advanced Hybrid Delivery cloud computing solutions. The facility is Level 4 compliant, meaning it is built to the highest security levels to secure data and ensure uninterrupted service in the event of power outages or violent acts of nature such as hurricane, tornado or flood.
The new center creates an infrastructure on the ground that has the ability to store and process data in multiples of ways, depending on the requirements of customers. The facility, designed as an on-premise cloud computing center, provides elasticity to add processing power and data capacity in the cloud virtually on demand, meeting the fluctuating needs of the marketplace.
The center's cloud computing hardware infrastructure supports the next-generation of technology-based marketing solutions that Consolidated Graphics is developing for its customers. These marketing solutions, bundled under the WorkSmart Suite™ brand, are being developed using components of the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. This cloud-based development platform enables software applications, such as those that comprise WorkSmart Suite, to run virtually through the internet.
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Partnering with Sony DADC, this cutting edge new technology will deliver the "ultimate consumer journey" by creating captivating experiences that take consumers on an enhanced journey from print, to rich media, to the web and beyond. This USB based technology can be produced in printed card formats, included inside direct mail or on a self mailer or as a publication insert. There is even a printed wrist band with a USB drive!
Here's how it works. Having been engaged with the physical messaging, the audience can remove the eBridge Arc from the printed carrier and plug it into the USB port of any computer to begin their ‘journey’. The eBridge Arc automatically begins to provide its rich media content prompting the audience to engage and personalize the journey. As the audience interacts with the rich media, their navigation selections are captured to be viewed later on a custom dashboard via the built-in eBridge Analytics feature. Once the rich media portion is complete audiences are prompted to continue their journey by clicking a link that automatically launches their browser seamlessly connecting them to a personalized landing page, and to the on-line portion of the experience. Upon arriving at the selected site, audiences can continue an even deeper experience with the brand and the brands on-line assets. This all happens seamlessly while capturing and reporting personalization and behaviour data through eBridge Analytic software.