Through this acquisition the specialist UK distributor, consultancy and software developer is now able to offer customers Java J2EE, Microsoft ".net" and Open Source web development alongside its existing portfolio of workflow, data-management and asset-management products and services.

Dr John Yardley, Managing Director, JPY said: "We are delighted to acquire JVolution and expand our services to include web development. As well as being able to develop bespoke web applications for our customers, we now have the in-house capability to customise "distributed" products from our own portfolio. Although "off- the-shelf" products like the Canto Cumulus digital asset management solution and HELIOS WebShare allow customers to "web publish" their assets far more cheaply than bespoke solutions, there can be a compromise on functionality. Now with the in- house capability to "customise" these products we can provide near 100% bespoke functionality at a fraction of the bespoke programming time and costs."

JVolution has been providing enterprise software solutions to businesses for over 15 years and grown a market leadership position in the design and development of bespoke content-managed client server systems, websites, intranets and extranets. Its customers include: the UK's leading snowsports club the Ski Club of Great Britain whose website hosts over 350,000 unique visitors each month; group travel specialists Club Europe Travel which constantly leverages its web usage to improve its customers' experience for booking and managing trips; and Kingshay Trust, an independent information and support network for dairy farmers. JVolution also worked for NTL/Telewest, prior to the Virgin Media re-brand, developing a bespoke web billing system with an integral "interactive voice recognition" (IVR) payment capability.

The JVolution team has the graphics, database, communications and integration skills to build systems that best match customers' current and future needs and to deliver them on-budget and to planned project timescales. JVolution also offers software consultancy, web hosting, and systems integration (payment and accounting services, EDI etc).

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About JPY

JPY is a UK distributor, consultancy and software house specialising in workflow, data-management and asset-management products. JPY acts as the UK distributor for Archiware, as well as a number of other companies including Canto and HELIOS.

JPY has over twenty years of working with high-profile companies, from national newspapers through advertising agencies, printers and pre-production houses to corporate communications departments and individual graphic designers. Other markets include education, entertainment, government, medical, leisure, corporate and retail.

JPY's customers include the majority of the UK's large newspaper groups, the BBC, Sony, BP and Texaco.

For further information go to http://www.jpy.com

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