| When purchasing a piece of software
it's important to see that it's alive. It's no fun
riding a dead horse. We've all seen applications
that look and feel old, giving the impression of
holding you back rather than evolving with your
infrastructure.
PaperCut, like all the best applications, is
under active development.
The history of PaperCut's print tracking software
dates back over 10 years. Over this time it has
evolved, seeing a complete re-write in 2004 to
put PaperCut on top of a modern architecture.
This latest re-write has allowed rapid addition
of features and to take advantage of technologies
such as clustering, database independence (allowing
deployment on several types of external database),
web services, a service watchdog and asynchronous
IO.
Our release
history is testament to this rapid development.
Just take a look at all the new features in the
last year alone!
Here are some of the reasons you will find PaperCut
to be modern and very much alive software:
Features
PaperCut continues to provide state of the art features
to help you leverage your printer resources more
effectively.
The browser based administration
and user
interfaces allow access from anywhere on your
network using your existing infrastructure.
The mobile
iPhone interface, find
me printing and printer
load balancing are examples of features that
were recently added.
Development
Our release often policy, along with our modern
design and development practices, means that issues
are addressed quickly, features are added on a
regular basis and new versions are in your hands
as soon as possible.
Modern Software
In the past it was normal for purchased software
to do exactly what it says on the box and nothing
more. Today there are expectations that software
will provide additional features to support integration
and customization; the kind of features that are
of exceptional value to the small percentantage
of people who use them. PaperCut includes
plenty of such features, including a scripting
and XML web services API with good support
for all major languages such as Java, C#, Python,
Ruby, Visual Basic and Perl.
PaperCut also integrates with e-commerce and
payment gateways via our payment gateway module,
including services such as PayPal, VeriSign and
Authorize.Net. |