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Main Stories
♦ John Yardley tames email
♦ Do our survey - Win an iPod
♦ Free data backup seminar
♦ Canto gets in bed with Quark
News in brief
♦ HELIOS shines
♦ Macworld recognition for JPY
♦ Product updates
♦ New Relations
John Yardley tames Email
It's increasingly difficult for companies to manage business email. This is a serious problem, because without a stern hand, email becomes unruly. Enter JPY, which is about to launch a solution that will keep email in line.
Many Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems have email built in, but users often bypass their clunky interfaces, preferring to use a familiar email client. As a result, keeping track of orders, support notes, complaints and chat is impossible.
It's a problem that JPY, like many companies, has had to deal with over the years, and it has driven JPY managing director Dr John Yardley to cook-up a solution. He has spent the past couple of years developing a system that allows users to rely on their favourite email software, yet work from a centralised address book, and keep all business communications logged and available. It lets users track all data regarding, say, a job, an order or a support ticket, while keeping companies' different departments in the picture regarding one another's activities.
The system, known as MRX (Mail Robot X) has worked so well for JPY that plans are afoot to launch it as a commercial product. Indeed, MRX enabled this html-embedded mail to be generated in less than 2 hours using only text and pictures and virtually no html knowledge. And this is just one of MRX's many benefits.
[[Dear]], if you think that MRX might be of interest to [[company]] and you would like to read the JPY White Paper on Mail Management just click here.
Win a top-of-the-range iPod
JPY is investigating the backup habits of computer users of various platforms. Just click here to participate, and if you are working in the UK, you will be included in a prize draw for the latest top of the range iPod.
The survey should take no longer than five minutes, and is relevant to anybody who works with a network of computers (whether you backup or not!). The results of the survey and the prize draw winner will be announced in a forthcoming JPY newsletter.
Archiware PresSTORE 2 Data Backup Seminar
Today, companies and organisations create and produce huge numbers of electronic files. With this creation comes the necessity and responsibility to backup/archive the data.
To show how Archiware has addressed the many challenges of data backup, JPY will be hosting a free seminar on July 20th 2006.
The seminar will demonstrate how PresSTORE 2 can help manage backup, archiving and data synchronization as part of a robust data management strategy. For more details click here.
Quark-Canto Alliance
MAY 23rd - Desktop publishing giant Quark announced a strategic alliance with Canto, whose Cumulus product is a leader in digital asset management. The agreement means new features of the newly released QuarkXPress 7 will be supported by Cumulus.
Two of the most exciting aspects of XPress 7 are Composition Zones - which allow live collaboration on pages - and JDF Job Jacket technology, which takes the guesswork out of printer settings and PDF preferences. The next version of Cumulus will treat these files as digital assets and include them in its database. This is vitally important for Composition Zones as version tracking becomes extremely important when many people work on a single document.
For more details click here. [[click here->http://www.jpy.com/pr_news/cumulus/pr_cum23_05_06.html]]
Macworld recognition for JPY
On June 29th Macworld hosts its annual awards at London's Royal Courts of Justice. This year, two JPY products - Helios UB and Archiware PresSTORE - have been shortlisted for awards.
PresSTORE is in the Editor's Choice: Storage category, while HELIOS UB is nominated for Editor's Choice: Print Imaging. Tellingly, Helios is the only software in that category, facing printers from Xerox, HP, Konica Minolta and Epson.
HELIOS Shines
MAY 17th - JPY hosted a free HELIOS seminar at Goodenough College in London's Bloomsbury. A range of interested parties, including representatives from leading newspaper and magazine publishing houses, attended the event. All were eager to see the new features of HELIOS UB, the latest “unbreakable” version of the publishing server software.
We shall be running a further seminar in October this year.
Product Updates
June 16th - HELIOS has been working on an updated version of HELIOS UB for Mac OS X Intel computers as well as Opteron servers running Solaris 10 x86. There is a beta available for users wishing to use Helios on these machines. The software is feature complete and should be fully functional - contact us if you're interested and we'll tell you how to download and install it.
Inspektor Gadget - Existing PDF HandShake UB customers with a software upgrade service agreement can download and install the pdfInspektor3 upgrade (u0542). HELIOS PDF HandShake automatically inspects PDF files to verify printing compatibility. PDF HandShake includes pdfInspektor3 for checking PDF files. You can obtain the update from the HELIOS website.
New Relations
JPY has hired Tin Drum to handle its Public Relations activities. Tin Drum is a new business headed by David Fanning, who was until recently editor of Macworld magazine. David has a decade of experience in the IT press, and comes from a technical background. His network of industry contacts will help get JPY and its activities noticed by more media outlets.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006