Nubium was originally developed by Tharstern, which was acquired by ePS last year.

It has its official launch at Drupa and is being demonstrated at the ePS booth (Hall 7a-E03).

The MIS is targeted at SME printers and has an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.

ePS CEO Gaby Matsliach said the opportunity was two-fold with the potential to attract new customers and also migrate existing users to the new system.

“With Nubium we have new market penetration and we’re also future proofing a large customer base,” he said.

ePS has more than 4,500 customers worldwide from small printers to large enterprises with global operations.

VP of portfolio management and strategic partnerships Nick Benkovich said for SME customers in particular the cloud solution was extremely attractive.

“These businesses don’t have and don’t want the burden of IT infrastructure – how much do they earn from that, zero!” he stated.

“People want to be living in a browser. With Nubium we give them a state-of-the-art solution, they can log in and be running very quickly.”

He said training on the system involved a mix of online and “human touch interaction” with one early customer up and running in just four hours.

Pricing is from just £500 per month.

Nubium is already selling in the UK, with Germany and the US to follow.

After becoming independent ePS subsequently focused its operations in two divisions, Print ePS and ePS Packaging.

Matsliach said the two segments were very different in nature, but also shared common principles and the ePS mission was to help customers benefit from its technology.

“Print and packaging are complicated – how do we help you [customers] orchestrate and automate?

“We are there for customers and we have that responsibility. For us it’s a big mission to be able to deliver that – ePS is uniquely valuable to the industry due to our global scale and size.”

He said the business was “doubling down on collaboration”, including with competitors, “again with the customer in mind”.

He said that larger customers in particular were increasingly using ePS technology “way outside the functional footprint of the software, and we think that’s a big thing.

“Last year that side of our business tripled and we see a lot of opportunity.”

Since being spun off from EFI to become an independent business in 2022, ePS has also benefited from its ability to forge more partnerships, with ECO3 the most recent addition to a long list of collaborations and with numerous “native integrations straight out of the box”.

Print ePS COO Charlotte Tueckmantel said that in the first few days of Drupa the firm had been busy with many customer meetings and demonstrations.

“We’ve seen an incredible quality of engagement. It’s a huge investment for customers to get here and stay here, and they are looking for solutions to their problems.

“Yes, we have our own suite from beginning to end if that makes sense for you as a customer, but we also support your unique workflow and the DFE [digital frontend] in front of that,” she added.

Dan Vertachnik, who joined ePS in April as CEO of Print ePS, will be at the show next week.