New edition of the asset and system management solution TA Cockpit®: BITV 2.0-compliant and completely barrier-free

Nuremberg, 29 April 2021 TA Triumph-Adler GmbH has comprehensively relaunched its asset and system management solution TA Cockpit®. The focus of the new version is clearly on accessibility and user-friendliness. To achieve this, the TA Cockpit® user interface has been completely redeveloped and now meets the requirements of BITV 2.0 (Barrier-free Information Technology Ordinance). This sets standards for how digital solutions are to be designed barrier-free. In future, these requirements must be complied with in public tenders. In addition, the development team has further expanded and optimised the operation of the tool and the stored workflows. 

Against this background, the developers at TA Triumph-Adler have completely redeveloped the user interface of TA Cockpit® in Responsive Web Design and aligned it with current requirements. The result is a lean, fast, intuitive and therefore very user-friendly interface. It fulfils the principles of perceptibility, usability, comprehensibility and robustness, which are anchored in the BITV 2.0.

The new edition of the Barrier-Free Information Technology Ordinance (BITV) 2.0 implements the requirements of the EU Directive 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and Council. The BITV 2.0 supplements the Disability Equality Act and sets standards on how websites, apps and digital content are to be designed barrier-free. The requirements apply to all federal public bodies and must therefore also be complied with in future in the context of public tenders and for electronic administrative processes. These must be designed barrier-free by 23 June 2021. "As we have implemented the new interface completely in Responsive Web Design, TA Cockpit® can be used in full on all end devices such as mobile devices, tablets, desktops or notebooks," explains Pablo Major, Team Leader TA Cockpit at TA Triumph-Adler GmbH. "This means that TA Cockpit® can now also be used barrier-free for people with disabilities in accordance with BITV 2.0."

In addition to accessibility, the developers have changed many details in the user guidance and even further expanded and optimised operation and stored workflows. The new, barrier-free interface naturally includes all the functions of TA Cockpit® that were previously available.

Managing Director Christopher Rheidt points to the functions for improving the energy consumption of the printer fleet, for example: "Energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important for companies. We expect its importance to grow even further, and with it, the demand for intelligent systems that help keep energy consumption in check.” TA Cockpit® analyzes the systems’ usage patterns and automatically calculates the most efficient energy-saving and shutdown times for the output systems. This makes it easy to optimize how the systems are used.

In addition, the relaunch also incorporated the experience of numerous customers who use TA Cockpit® on a daily basis. The wealth of knowledge that the experts at TA Triumph-Adler can draw on is considerable: they now manage more than 10,000 active installations and use the tool to process more than 40,000 fully automated consumable deliveries per month for more than 90 per cent of all printing systems in the field under TA contract.

Pablo Major, who has been responsible for and leading the continuous development of TA Cockpit® for over ten years now, sums up: "The feedback from our users has made a decisive contribution to making TA Cockpit® what it is today: a modern, efficient and completely barrier-free control centre for MFP and printer landscapes and definitely one of the best-designed tools on the market."

André Gensch
Manager Corporate Communications

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