BFI Canada became our first client to officially enable our RSS functionality in Q4 WEB. Website visitors can now receive BFI’s press releases in RSS format and we have plans to expand our RSS feeds to include events, presentations and other types of content within Q4 WEB.
We are pleased to announce our latest client, New Sage Energy (TSXV:NSG) recently went live on Q4 WEB. New Sage Energy is a Canadian company focused on oil and gas opportunities in South America. New Sage currently has an equity interest and Joint Venture relationship with Americas Petrogas Inc., a private company with operations in Argentina’s prolific Neuquen Basin.
This marks the first new release of version 3.5 of the Q4 WEB platform and our 8th launch this year. We are very pleased that New Sage has chosen Q4 to manage their online corporate disclosure with Q4 WEB and we welcome them to the ever-growing Q4 family.
As Jason mentioned in his previous post, we are getting ready to kick off a busy summer quarter. With this, we have a new set of priorities and goals that we want to achieve. This is going to be our second quarter implementing the Rockefeller habits, we learned a lot the first time around and will be aiming to improve the way we track and score our progress.
One of the biggest changes we are making this time around is in the area of product development, implementations and support. Historically we have divided our development efforts into 2 distinct teams, a Product team that focused on building new features for our products and an implementation team that worked on implementing our products for clients and supporting those installations. As part of our recent re-adoption of Scrum project management, the entire group of developers were given the task of deciding on what kind of team structure we should work under. To make a long story short, the team decided on one group after much discussion, but the really great thing I’d like to point out is that we were given the option to chose for ourselves, this shows an amazing level of trust that is often times hard to find in the corporate world.
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Another big change is that new team will be sitting together in one room, we feel this will not only help us as a group work together, but also to foster creative thinking and continually improve our products and processes. This also allows us to learn and feed off each other on a day to day basis. Learning is a never ending job for software developers and being surrounded by other smart people makes learning easy and fun!
We are all really excited about the coming months, and excited to be working on more great features for our clients.
C.A. Bancorp Inc (TSX: BKP) recently went live on Q4 Web Systems Q4 WEB platform. C.A. Bancorp is an alternative asset manager that directly invests in and manages private equity investments and other alternative assets with strong growth prospects.
We are very please to have C.A. Bancorp as part of our Q4 family and this marks the 7th client launch this year. This is a very exciting time for Q4, we have 4 more client launches coming up and recently launched Q4 PRESS for Blackberry.
Following up on our Q4 WEB Spring 08 Features blog post, I’m going to talk about Q4 Web’s ability to embed Google maps into your site. Google maps are quickly becoming a standard method for displaying maps on websites.
What is Google Maps?
Google Maps is a Google service offering powerful, user-friendly mapping technology and local business information—including business locations, contact information, and driving directions. You can find out more about Google maps here
Ok, great. So what can I do with Google maps
Googles maps are quickly becoming a standard method for displaying various types of map related information on company websites. Some examples of how Google maps can be useful on your site are:
In addition to the basic mapping data, administrators can also tag locations with additional information regarding the location that is tagged on the map. Website users can view satellite images of your mine areas as well as topographical images providing them more insight into your companies operations.
How can I get Google maps functionality on my site?
We think this is a great new feature and we hope you do to! If you would like more information on how you can integrate Google maps functionality in your site send us an email to support@q4websystems.com or give us a call at 416-626-7829 (press 2 for support) and we’ll be happy to help you integrate this new feature.
We are pleased to announce G&S Minerals (GSML.PK) as our latest client. G&S Minerals issued a press release yesterday announcing they have selected Q4 Web Systems Q4 WEB platform to streamline their corporate disclosure and to provide more relevant and timely information to shareholders.
G&S Minerals will be launching on our platform in Q2 2008.
We’ve been quite busy this year and are pleased to announce that Explorator Resources (TSX: EXO) has recently launched on Q4 WEB. Explorator Resources Inc. is a Canadian-based mining exploration company focused on building a strong portfolio of copper-gold Projects in South America.
This is our 6th client to launch on Q4 WEB this year and along with our successful launch of Q4 PRESS it’s no surprise that we’ve been named to Branham Group and Backbone magazine’s Top 25 up and coming software development companies.
Breakwater Resources (TSE: BRW.CA) is the latest issuer to select our Q4 Web corporate disclosure solution to maintain their website. Breakwater is a mineral resource company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and mining of base metal and precious metal deposits in the Americas. Visit the Breakwater site at www.breakwater.ca
Newport Partners has selected Q4 Web to manage and automate it’s new corporate web site at www.newportpartners.ca. Designed by Capital C the new site features the updated Newport brand and expanded corporate and investor content. Read more…
Q4 is pleased to announce the latest addition to our family. Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation (TXS:BIM) recently went live on Q4 WEB featuring Google Maps integration. Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation is a Canadian publicly-traded junior mining company that is focused on its 100%-owned Mary River iron ore deposits located about 160 kilometres south of Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada. Read more…