Consolidated Press and NCL Communications are part of the CPI Organization. Consolidated Press is a full-service custom sheetfed printing company, combining more than 40 years of experience with ISO certified quality standards. NCL Communications is a state-of-the-art press solutions company experienced in cutting-edge digital asset management, data archiving, Web development, indoor and outdoor large format digital printing and signage.

Challenges

• Effectively and efficiently manage job-flow for Web-to-Print fulfillment so that it is a user-friendly experience throughout whole order processing while cutting back-end costs.
  
  

• Create desktop-like, user-friendly document design and layout tool in a Web browser.

Azavar Delivered Results

• Lower costs and increased efficiency with a 490 percent return on investment after one year.

• Average savings of 29 percent per quarter on drop ships.

• Product catalog usage increased by 165 percent over the course of two years.

Technology

• Adobe PDF
• Azavar On-Demand Toolset™
• Microsoft .NET
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Windows Server
• VB .NET
• Xinet WebNative Digital Asset Management Software

Solution

Consolidated Press (NCL Communications) has been serving the print and digital asset management needs of JBB Worldwide for more than 20 years.  JBB Worldwide had been using a point-to-point Digital Asset Management solution provided by Consolidated Press (NCL Communications). Using this solution, JBB Worldwide accessed a server to browse and download its collection of master low resolution images. JBB Worldwide outgrew this solution and its limited capabilities.

Understanding the need for a cost-effective solution that would provide better capabilities quickly and yet still be able to expand as JBB Worldwide continued to grow, Consolidated Press (NCL Communications) enlisted the help of Azavar™ Technologies. Azavar used its proprietarily developed On-Demand Toolset™, a cost-effective, customizable, scalable, integrated Web application for marketers and printers to house all digital assets in a user friendly environment for complete brand management. Azavar ODT allows for integration with all legacy systems and existing software such as accounting, fulfillment, brand management and variable data.

Azavar ODT incorporates award-winning design with secure, ease-of-use functionality while fostering better customer-to-customer relationships. It is a customizable Web solution that lets users login, click, type and save labels, fliers and other marketing or print materials for printing and distribution. In minutes, users can modify collateral, view a draft quality PDF, approve and send it. Tracking functions let marketers monitor distribution of materials, budgets and customers.

With Azavar ODT, Consolidated Press (NCL Communications) helped JBB Worldwide save $100,000 annually in administrative costs while increasing the speed and efficiency of Web-to-print fulfuillment. JBB Worldwide marketing individuals can create a complete marketing campaign and have it approved while monitoring individual budgets.

Azavar ODT is a Web-based solution, providing JBB Worldwide the ability to modify existing marketing and print collateral from anywhere with an Internet connection. JBB Worldwide marketers can make changes on the spot while visiting clients without needing to search for the right materials, exchange phone calls to verify information or wait for approval.

Azavar ODT brought Webability™ to Consolidated Press (NCL Communications) and JBB Worldwide, creating more efficient runs for Consolidate Press (NCL Communications) while saving JBB Worldwide an average of 29 percent per quarter on drop ships and increasing usage of its product catalog by 165 percent over the course of two years.