JPY recently announced the start of an innovative new development and commercialisation programme. The objective is to allow businesses to substantially cut the costs of utilising JPY's development services while commercialising their code at a profit.

As part of our relentless drive to integrate all forms of business communication, we recently replaced our analog phone system with something more modern, flexible and exciting. We needed to add more extensions to our existing system - including home-phones - and to allow users to automatically dial numbers while in a database contact record.

Apple's Time Machine is a simple and effective way of backing up workstations, either locally to external drives, or over the network. Now, if you have an HELIOS server, you can use an EtherShare volumes as a Time Machine backup disk for Mac clients.

Cumulus 8.1 was recently released, introducing a new core architecture that improves performance and increases the product line’s current capabilities, and potential for growth. Among the upgrade’s key new features and capabilities are:

Next time you visit our offices you'll notice some big changes to the layout on the ground floor. We've opened things up by relocating our data centre and removing partitioning. This gives us a much larger area for meetings and seminars and adds a dedicated kitchen area, toilet and shower. We're looking forward to running more seminars and training days in 2010.

Our new website www.jpy.com is now up and running. It's been completely redesigned, with lots of new content and more to come. Why did we do it? We wanted a more dynamic site into which we can introduce new content easily and quickly. As our products are constantly evolving, with new features being added, we wanted our website to be updated on a weekly basis, complementing the products and services that we offer.

On March 23rd Archiware are running a free seminar in London. 'Efficient and easy-to-use production workflows from ingest to archiving with Final Cut Server, Xsan and Archiware PresSTORE' will be the focus of the day. Presentations will include both Archiware and Apple products and we'll have experts on hand to discuss specific workflows and requirements.