May 7, 2024 — Portland, Ore. - Extensis, the global leader in innovative font, creative asset, and creative risk management solutions, is partnering with Italian value-added distributor, Computer Gross, to expand its reseller program in Italy following the launch of the Extensis Creative Intelligence Suite™.
Building on the foundation of industry-leading font managers Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Server, the Extensis Creative Intelligence Suite™ is an industry-first, all-in-one solution that unifies font and creative asset management. The suite was developed to simplify creative operations, remove barriers in creative projects, mitigate risk and provide new analytical insights to enable creative teams to take informed action.
The Creative Intelligence Suite integrates with a host of popular design applications, such as Adobe Creative Cloud, making it an exciting add-on business opportunity for a reseller’s creative software portfolio.
Computer Gross, Italian leader in value distribution, will be working with Extensis’ channel team to bring the Creative Intelligence Suite to existing and new resellers across Italy, providing them with supporting programs, including product training and marketing collateral.
Serena Rizzi, Business Unit Manager at Computer Gross, said: “We are a value-added distributor – the first one in Italy with around 15,000 customers – so the quality of the products we provide is imperative.”
“Extensis’ products provide complementary solutions for our resellers. We distribute a lot of creative products and are very aware that the Creative Intelligence Suite provides a complete service in terms of creative asset management. We have a product specialist dedicated to Extensis products to deliver the full value of the service because this is very important for our offer.”
Hakim Bouacha, Channel Manager – EMEA, at Extensis said: “We have had a relationship with the team in Italy for a long time, and our partnership is continually strengthened by a successful distribution model. Computer Gross’ network of twenty Area Managers and fifteen B2B stores makes them the perfect partner for Extensis.”
“I’m excited for the team to introduce the Creative Intelligence Suite to the Italian market and secure the product into more reseller’s portfolios.”
With 30 years’ experience in creative asset management solutions, Extensis is currently building on its relationships with fourteen global distributors to expand the reach of its industry-leading solutions to creative teams on an international scale.
About the Extensis Creative Intelligence Suite
The Creative Intelligence Suite has two annual subscription levels: Extensis Connect℠ and Extensis Connect + Insight℠.
Both tiers integrate with Adobe Creative Cloud, simplifying previously complicated and expensive processes for the end user.
• Extensis Connect™ is the industry’s first solution that unifies font and creative asset management. Teams of all sizes can now store all creative assets in one location, so the design elements needed for projects are easy to find, manage, share, and integrate with creative software including Adobe Creative Cloud. Connect adds a layer of security and reporting to creative operations through robust permission controls; font license management; single sign-on; and font usage, license compliance, and team utilization and activity reports.
• Extensis Connect + Insight™ builds upon Connect, adding a layer of creative risk management that mitigates risk in all stages of the creative process, and reduces the need for last minute project auditing fire drills. Connect + Insight’s Project Risk Scanning scans for font usage risks within projects before production, pinpoints identified risks in project files, and provides a Font Risk Assessment Report with suggested steps for risk resolution. This report addresses six critical font risk areas: missing fonts (including system and subscription fonts), unlicensed fonts, font licenses expiring in less than 90 days, expired font licenses, over utilized font licenses (fonts installed on more systems than the license allows), and outdated font formats.
For information about being an Extensis reseller in Italy, please contact Computer Gross https://www.computergross.it/
About Extensis
Founded in 1993, Extensis established its roots in Portland, Oregon with the express goal of solving complex problems for creative enterprises through innovative font and creative asset management technology solutions. Since the company began its mission 30 years ago, Extensis has helped hundreds of thousands of creative professionals—from individual designers to global brands and large creative teams—maximize the efficiency of creative operations and ensure creative asset compliance, so projects arrive to stakeholders as promised, with no surprises, and profit margins remain intact.
Today, Extensis is building the future for font and creative asset management on the reliable foundations of industry-leading font managers Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Server. Extensis Connect and Extensis Connect + Insight are the first two subscription levels of an evolving Creative Intelligence Suite that integrates with the Adobe Creative Cloud and other popular design applications. This suite manages fonts and other creative assets, provides leaders the analytical insight they need to make effective decisions, brings intelligent risk management to creative operations, and empowers teams to take informed action, so the route to profitability remains secure in the face of changing digital environments.
To learn more about Extensis, visit www.extensis.com
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