The Portman can trace its roots back to 1846, making it the third oldest building society in the UK. In the last 20 years a number of mergers have taken place bringing together strong regional societies. Today the Portman is the largest regional building society in the south of England with assets exceeding £9billion.

During the third quarter of 2001, 650 Portman people moved into Portman House, a new purpose built Head Office in Bournemouth.

Portman required the majority of their staff to have access to 17 Canon ImageRunner 5000 printer/copiers in a secure, controlled manner while continuing to use their existing door entry / cashless vending cards.

The solution provided consisted of 17 FollowMe Printing units with a central FollowMe Q-Server.

Savings based on 10 FollowMe units with Enterprise server software, 350 users and an annual throughput of 3 million pages.

Total annual saving of UK £22,500 (US$34,875)

Equivalent to an annual saving of UK £2,250 (US$3,847) per unit

Equivalent to an annual saving of UK £64 (US$99) per user

Equivalent to an annual saving of UK £0.0075 (US$0.0116) per page