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Enfocus announces PitStop Workgroup Manager
Thursday 09. September 2010 - A new way to centrally control Enfocus PitStop Pro settings in a collaborative workflow environment
Enfocus announces PitStop Workgroup Manager, a brand-new and significant efficiency tool that has been developed to simplify the use of Enfocus PitStop Pro in multi-user collaborative working environments.
PitStop Pro is designed to operate as a standalone desktop application, but in practice it is also often used in workgroups where people need to collaborate. This means different team members wish to share Preflight Profiles, Action Lists, Workspaces, etc while the team manager needs to control the settings that are used. Although it’s easy to export the PitStop Pro Action Lists and Preflight Profiles for import by other users, there has been no way to manage this across a workgroup from a single central point and make sure that everybody only uses the latest settings.
New way to manage big teams
PitStop Workgroup Manager solves this issue. Released at the same time as the new PitStop Pro 10, the Workgroup Manager runs on a central computer and allows one person to control the allocation of settings. It also manages the PitStop Pro licenses by acting as a license server for Floating Licenses. For each licensed PitStop Pro copy in the local area network, PitStop Workgroup Manager can automatically be used to distribute settings like Preflight Profiles, Action Lists, Global Changes, output intents, Workspaces and color preferences.
“Every company having a large number of installed PitStop Pro copies can benefit from the advantages of installing the Workgroup Manager,” explains Elli Cloots, Enfocus Director of Product management. “Our goal in developing it was to make life easier for our larger volume customers. They can now manage their settings in a central way, which will help them to save a lot of time compared with doing this manually on every station.”
Standardization through central settings
The PitStop Workgroup Manager also enables large companies to apply policies to certain groups, Cloots adds: “As a head of a department, you can ensure that a certain group uses only certain settings. You may also want to prohibit users from changing these settings or perhaps prevent them from creating new settings. It allows you to work in a very standardized way without confusion and to simplify your groups work and communication efforts.”
Availability and pricing
PitStop Workgroup Manager is supplied when purchasing a Floating License for PitStop Pro 10. A Floating license allows the installation of unlimited copies of PitStop Pro across a network, but only a certain number can be used simultaneously. The user pays for a certain number of Floating Licenses, for instance five or ten, with a progressive discount.
Enfocus PitStop Workgroup Manager will become commercially available together with the PitStop Pro 10 release in October 2010, with Floating License packages of Enfocus PitStop Pro 10.