COSprint for Linux printing and spooling across the enterprise

COSprint is an advanced linux printing and spooling package used by major corporations around the world. Much more than a simple print spooler, it provides automatic routing, management and delivery of documents (report distribution) output by key business applications, including SAP R/3 and Oracle Financials, in enterprises of all sizes.

COSprint supports distributed printing in enterprises using a mixed Unix, Linux and Windows infrastructure, a common combination for enterprise-class business applications. Like the other members of OSM's COSMOS family of system management products, it delivers broad functionality. A small number of staff are thereby equipped to deliver secure Windows, Unix and Linux printing via an extensive, network-distributed service across their enterprise.

Because of its designed-in scalability, COSprint is used in organizations of all sizes. Some installations are not concerned with all aspects of Unix and/or Linux printing, but instead use the product as no more than a replacement print spooler for Unix and/or Linux (instead of the standard print spooler lp or lpr). Others make full use of its ability to manage print jobs from a Windows environment, effectively using it as a Windows print spooler.

Perhaps the greatest added value is found when using COSprint for the printing of documents produced by SAP R/3, Oracle Financials or PeopleSoft. Such enterprise-scale applications always provide some form of spooling, but often confined to modest control functions. COSprint greatly improves on the standard facilities and raises the standard of control for documents to equal that of the other functional areas. COSprint has been certified for use with SAP R/3.

OSM's COSMOS family of products delivers a broad range of system control functions to enable a small number of system administrators manage a large number of systems while working from one or a small number of control points. Starting from a standpoint of operations automation, COSMOS features three main branches: output management, automated job scheduling and user management.

OSM's products have been designed to complement the PATROL products supplied by BMC Software. In particular, there is a PATROL Knowledge Module for COSprint which both enables the monitoring of all internal COSprint events and allows COSprint to be operated from a standard PATROL console. By using the COSMOS and PATROL products together, an enterprise can meet almost all its needs in the area of E-DSM.

OSM is the leading independent specialist supplier of E-DSM solutions for organizations who rely on a Unix, Linux and Windows infrastructure. Our reputation is one of delivering solutions to problems of all complexities by means of our highly competent Professional Services team. One of the most distinct advantages of the COSMOS products is that they are founded on a technology which allows them to be easily tailored to suit the particular needs of demanding customers. When this ease of tailorability is combined with the technical strength of our Professional Services team, the result is a level of relevant functionality that competitive suppliers appear unable to attain. When the modest cost of the products is added to the equation, it is plain that the value for money provided by OSM is very hard to beat.

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