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TECHNOLOGY OUTLOOK: SOFTWARE & WORKFLOW—Software Roundup: Atomyx, eProductivity Software, and Esko

Pat McGrew and Ryan McAbee round up three software solutions providers who were showing their products at drupa.  

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Four Pees, based in Belgium, established its foothold in the market in 2007. Today, it works worldwide, renowned for its dedication to streamlining print production processes to enable the transition from mass production to mass customization through innovative software solutions. They deliver tools that enhance productivity and improve the integration of print and digital technologies. Four Pees’ mission is to make print operations more efficient, cost-effective and adaptable to the evolving demands of the digital age.

In 2024, Four Pees unveiled a groundbreaking offering, Atomyx Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS). It promises to revolutionize how printing businesses integrate their workflows and systems, providing a hub where print buyers, sellers and manufacturers connect. The platform is designed to cater to the increasing complexity of print production environments that involve a multitude of software solutions and hardware setups.

The value proposition of Atomyx is being able to profitably produce at scale by making upstream and downstream data sources available to the business and production so it can be insightful and actionable. This takes a true SaaS platform for scalability and adaptability to constantly changing production bandwidth requirements that mass customization faces.


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About Pat McGrew and Ryan McAbee

Pat is a well-known evangelist for inkjet productivity. At McGrew Group, she uses her decades technical and marketing experience to lead the industry toward optimized business processes and production workflows. She has helped companies to define their five-year plans, audited workflow processes, and developed sales team interventions and education programs. Pat is the Co-Author of 8 industry books, editor of A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge, and a regular contributor to Inkjet Insight and WhatTheyThink.com. Ryan McAbee is Chief Analyst at Pixel Dot Consulting LLC.

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