Loftware Cloud Business
Loftware Cloud Business
Approval workflows, role-based access and full business-system integration for organisations standardising labelling across sites.
Cloud (SaaS)3+ printers1 year print history122 included features
Comprehensive Specifications
At a Glance
Included Features
Fundamentals
| System-wide role based access control | ✓ |
| Organizational users – single click Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) integration/Open ID Connect | ✓ |
| Straightforward system dashboard highlighting recent events | ✓ |
| Centralized database backed document storage | ✓ |
| Full content indexing for instant full-text search | ✓ |
| Preview labels with dynamic content | ✓ |
| Detailed label report with preview and export to XML | ✓ |
| Centralized system history of all relevant security events | ✓ |
| Advanced labeling analytics – Comprehensive reports on the labeling process by users, printers, labels, applications and label material used and errors | ✓ |
| Web-based integration manager | ✓ |
Quality Assurance And Traceability
| Centralized print history with previews of printed labels | ✓ |
| FDA compliant security with electronic signatures | ✓ |
| Automatic document version control – track history of a label version, when it was changed and who changed it | ✓ |
| Restore a previous version to current version | ✓ |
| View a previous version without overwriting the current version | ✓ |
| Visual comparison of different labels, variations and revisions with highlighted differences | ✓ |
| De-commission a version without deleting the file | ✓ |
| Content management – create and manage label variants | ✓ |
| Multiple customizable approval workflows with email notifications to streamline approval process | ✓ |
| Email notifications for approval workflows | ✓ |
| Service provide role dedicated to external users, e.g. Loftware vendor, external technical support members | ✓ |
| Non-production environments included | Optional add-on |
Change And Transport System
| Synchronizing non-production environments | ✓ |
| Scheduled promotion of documents | ✓ |
| Synchronizing of centralized environments and decentralized environments | ✓ |
Print Management
| Centralized printer and print queue overview and management | ✓ |
| Customizable email alerts for various system events (production errors, etc.) | ✓ |
Web Printing System
| Single click deployment of centrally controlled labelling applications business wide | ✓ |
| Works with simple labels or fully configured PowerForms applications | ✓ |
| Desktop class performance with minimum network traffic (client side processing) | ✓ |
| Self-service printer setup including settings (no server printer management needed) | ✓ |
| Print without internet connectivity (offline mode) | ✓ |
| Add printing to other web applications with a few lines of code (Web API) | ✓ |
Integration System
| 64-bit Windows service for integration with a variety of business systems | ✓ |
| Multi-core processing for best performance and throughput | ✓ |
| Graphical integration builder for no-programing integration configuration | ✓ |
| Dedicated integration manager with extensive logging | ✓ |
| File drop, Serial port, Database and TCP/IP connectors | ✓ |
| Scheduler Trigger – Execute periodic workflows | ✓ |
| Bi-directional HTTP connector (REST) | ✓ |
| Bi-directional Web Services connector (SOAP) | ✓ |
| Structured text data (CSV and fixed-width columns) processing | ✓ |
| Configurable XML format processing | ✓ |
| Unstructured text and binary data processing | ✓ |
| Number of actions available for creating workflows and business rules for printing labels, data processing, network communication and more | ✓ |
| Execute SQL queries (CRUD) | ✓ |
| Integrated PDF engine for optimized PDF document creation without 3rd party tools | ✓ |
| Generate label preview as an image file | ✓ |
| Advanced workflows and error handling (For Loop, Try..Except) | ✓ |
| Microsoft Failover Cluster support | ✓ |
| Load-balancing cluster support for TCP/IP, HTTP and Web Service triggers | ✓ |
| Prebuilt best-practice SAP integration (available as an SAP integration bundle add-on) | ✓ |
| SAP Endorsed App | ✓ |
| Prebuilt integration with Workday | ✓ |
| Cloud Trigger – Securely integrate with 3rd party web and cloud applications | ✓ |
| Cloud Print Trigger – Securely integrate with 3rd party web and cloud applications and print directly to cloud-enabled printers* *Zebra Link-OS, some SATO models and Epson ColorWorks printers supported | ✓ |
| .NET API for programing integration | ✓ |
Label Template Design
| Label setup wizard for quick start with best printing quality and performance | ✓ |
| Text, barcodes, lines, boxes, circles, clip art, images and PDF files | ✓ |
| Reports/supply chain documents (delivery notes, pick lists,…) | ✓ |
| Print objects in reverse/negative: white on black | ✓ |
| Windows system and built-in printer fonts support | ✓ |
| Rich text object including powerful editor with support for tables and more | ✓ |
| Fit-text-to-box (dynamic point size) | ✓ |
| Wrap-text-to-shape (word-wrapping and text justification to non-rectangular shapes) | ✓ |
| Text on ellipse | ✓ |
| Extensive RFID support | ✓ |
| Object alignment tools with snap-to-objects and arbitrary rotation of all objects | ✓ |
| Relative object positioning and variable label length | ✓ |
| Library of ready-to-use international standards compliance label templates | ✓ |
| More than 70 linear and 2D barcode symbologies with support for printer-based barcodes | ✓ |
| Intuitive GS1 Application Identifier Data Source Wizard | ✓ |
| Automatic check digit calculation | ✓ |
| Place “human readable” text anywhere in relation to barcodes | ✓ |
| Customizable “human readable” character template | ✓ |
| Object printing based on dynamic data (business rules) | ✓ |
| Design Layers for advanced label design | ✓ |
| Unlimited undo and redo commands | ✓ |
| Format Painter to easily copy text format to other objects | ✓ |
| Label converter for BarTender and CODESOFT templates | ✓ |
Dynamic Data
| Single screen for straightforward management of dynamic data (Dynamic Data Manager) | ✓ |
| Keyboard or scanner input at print time | ✓ |
| Import data at print time | ✓ |
| Full serialization including support for printer-based serial numbers | ✓ |
| Date and Time fields sourced from PC or Printer | ✓ |
| Full database connectivity to almost any existing database | ✓ |
| Reusable connections to multiple databases and tables within the label or solution | ✓ |
| Edit database connected documents without accessible database (offline mode) | ✓ |
| Variable graphic fields including graphics sourced from database | ✓ |
| 10+ prebuilt functions for efficient data concatenation and processing | ✓ |
| VBScript and Python scripting for custom data processing | ✓ |
Application Builder
| Auto-built, all-in-one printing form with data entry controls and dynamic print job preview | ✓ |
| Customizable data-entry filters and error checking | ✓ |
| Print time database record selection on a single screen | ✓ |
| Responsive form design to fit different screen resolutions | ✓ |
| Design Layers for interactive form design | ✓ |
| Integrated no-programming graphical application builder for building efficient labelling solutions for controlled printing | ✓ |
| Fully configurable user experience with 15+ prebuilt user interface controls and support for multiple forms | ✓ |
| Workflow and business rules editor including 40+ actions for printing labels, database queries, integrations with scales, PLCs… | ✓ |
| Solution document type can contain multiple labels and forms for improved dynamic data management and portability | ✓ |
| Integrated PDF engine for optimized PDF document creation without 3rd party tools | ✓ |
| Support for multi-lingual user environment | ✓ |
| Interface and control peripheral devices, weight scales, PLCs… | ✓ |
| Display printer status within the printing form | ✓ |
Printing
| Native support for 5000+ label and marking devices | ✓ |
| Support for all laser/inkjet printers with a Windows driver | ✓ |
| Local and network printer support | ✓ |
| Speed optimization reuses repeating data instead of resending it | ✓ |
| Session print – combines multiple labels in a single print job for performance | ✓ |
| Color separation (for GHS labeling) | ✓ |
| Batch printing: header and tail labels | ✓ |
| Two-sided (“duplex”) design and printing | ✓ |
| Advanced printer cutter control | ✓ |
| Store and Recall label templates from printer’s memory | ✓ |
| Print PDF documents | ✓ |
| Cloud printing without any on-premise software ** Zebra Link-OS, some SATO models and Epson ColorWorks printers supported | ✓ |
Feature availability is taken from Loftware’s own product edition feature list. Features not included in this edition are not listed.
Available Subscriptions
All subscriptions require a minimum one-year term. Contact Century Systems for a quotation.
A Loftware Authorized Distributor
Century Systems is a Loftware Authorized Distributor and a Loftware Forward Partner, supplying and supporting the full Loftware and NiceLabel range.
Talk to Century Systems about which edition fits your printer count, your integration requirements and your compliance obligations.