We’re excited to announce the release of a number of feature upgrades now available on Q4. We’ve been listening to our clients and are happy to provide this set of improved features focused on the real-time integration of social media both in terms of publishing updates to Twitter and Facebook and integrating content into the site from social media content sites like YouTube.
Over the last couple of years we’ve been successful in working with our clients to create a customized approach that drives IR website traffic, expands content distribution and increase investor engagement. Over this time the Q4 platform has evolved and now can provide a true competitive advantage to public companies by expanding their reach, attracting investors and building better relationships.
These new features provide even greater capability for our clients to benefit from the web and the integration of social media into their investor relations efforts AND with the rise of web disclosure coming, our platform provides all of the tools required to be successful in the new world of online investor relations.
The list of upgrades is below, you can also check out our new website at http://www.q4websystems.com to learn more.
We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Virtua Research to offer analysts and sophisticated investors the Interactive Analyst Center – a new standard of rendering a company’s financial data.
The Interactive Analyst Center was originally designed at the request of Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited with the purpose of providing investors and analysts the most advanced new suite of interactive financials and graphing tools, all embedded in a single, logical location — the investor section of a company’s website.
Some of the KEY FEATURES include:
Excel like Presentation – for ease of use and accessibility
Multiple Annual and Quarterly Data – for simplified, more contextual investor understanding
Export to Excel – statements and data can be exported for simplified model building
Interactive Graphs – build, select and graph interactive operational and financial ratios
Links to Actual Filing Data – right-click any line item to view source documents
Ratio Descriptions – left-click any ratio for more detailed information and formula
There are also many BENEFITS to making this feature available on your company website as it will:
Increase your company valuation with best practices transparent disclosure
Offer the interactivity of exporting to Excel up to 5 years of aggregated financial data
Save time, effort and money educating existing and potential investors
Improve control of your financial message for more consistent investor modeling
Update your quarterly financials in real time for conference call “housekeeping” questions
Provide new methods of visualizing financial relationships with interactive graphing tools
Seamlessly integrates into any corporate or investor website
Yesterday, a press release was issued announcing that SlideShare and Q4 have partnered to offer public companies enhanced best practice capabilities for their IR websites using SlideShare’s innovative web platform for displaying and sharing presentations and pdfs combined with Q4’s market leading IR website platform.
Companies using our Q4 web platform will be able to easily embed SlideShare presentations into any area of their IR websites and publish directly to both their IR website and SlideShare.com. Additionally, SlideShare is launching a separate Investor Relations category. Companies will also have the opportunity to promote their investor relations presentations to SlideShare’s 18 million visitors in a targeted manner.
Earlier today we released our Summer ‘09 Preview through Twitter and LinkedIn. In case you didn’t see it there, we wanted to let you know that our latest release brings Social Media and XBRL to Investor Relations websites in a way that you haven’t seen before. If you’re interested, register for a demo today and your chance to win an HP Netbook!
Over the next couple of weeks we are going to officially launch Summer ‘09 and provide more details on these exciting new additions. Until then, a couple of key features that separate Q4 from the rest of the IR website providers include:
30+ best practice IR website modules integrate with any website
Easy to use content management and workflow
Leading edge Investor Tools and Social Media Sharing
XBRL financials with real-time rendering on your website
Presentations, videos and documents distributed through popular social networks
Full-text RSS feeds, email alerts and subscriber management
Website disclosure records and verifiable audit trail
Our latest Spring ‘09 release builds on The Q4 Web Platform and introduces 3 new investor relations website products plus new features designed to help you manage your online communications and build better relationships with your investors and stakeholders.
New IR Website Products
Each of these new on-demand products are designed to be seamlessly integrated or embedded into any existing corporate or investor relations website. All products are delivered on The Q4 Web Platform and include complete self-publishing control, automated updates, and reduced risk through our proprietary web records.
We’ve been hard at work over the last couple of months preparing for the latest release of Q4 PRESS. I’m pleased to announce our latest release for September 2008 which brings a host of improvements to handling importing of MS Word documents as well as performance tweaks that help speed up processing of long financial documents.
We’ve already started work on the next revision of Q4 PRESS, look for a follow-up post shortly. We also would like to hear from you regarding what features you would like to see in Q4 PRESS, you can vote for some of our suggested features here.
With so much happening with our products and bringing on clients it’s been hard for us to stay on top of communicating all of the great new things. This morning I updated the Q4 Community with two new user guides for Press and a poll to vote on upcoming features for Press.
If you’re interested and have time, we’d love to hear your feedback:
While you’re on the community check out all the other great content about Web and Press and let’s us know if there is anything not there that you’d like to see.
The folks over at zu.com were doing interviews with some of the vendors that were at NIRI this year. They just posted a video on their blog that contains an interview with Darrell Heaps. Darrell gives a quick overview of the company and a short demo of Q4 Press. There is a great reference to Darrell’s twitter activity and the FriendFeed room that Dominic Jones setup for the conference.
We’re happy to announce the imminent release of Q4 PRESS for Blackberry. We’re in the final phase of BETA testing and are planning on releasing this by the end of the quarter.
Highlights include:
- Authors can view document changes from reviewers with ‘track changes’ type of markup that is similar to MS Word
- Reviewers can comment on documents and submit feedback
- Simplified view of the dashboard
The product folks showed me a demo of the new functionality at the end of our last sprint and it’s simply fantastic. More to follow on this and other mobile features and if you have any questions about this feature or Q4 PRESS, contact us.
One of the big challenges in developing software is guiding your users on how to best use your software in a helpful and productive manner. We strongly believe that our customers should be well equipped to use our software and we like to provide them with as much help as possible.
Q4 Press is our newest product, it’s primary value proposition is to “Easily Collaborate on Regulated Documents”. Given that proposition we wanted to make sure that we made the software live by that rule. The welcome page is one of the things we implemented that we thought would bring that proposition to life.
Previous to introducing the welcome screen to Q4 Press, users that had just logged on would be presented with a list of all the press release that they were currently working on. It looked like this:
While this scenario worked fine while we were building the product, we soon realized that in real world scenarios this page would more often then not be blank for most of our users. This goes directly against our primary value proposition and we quickly began looking for ways to make this experience a much more inviting and informative one for our users.
This is where the Welcome screen came into play, it looks like this:
The welcome page’s primary goal is to drive new users to the most logical actions they should perform. In the case of Q4 Press, those actions are to invite other users to collaborate on a press release and to create a new press release.
Again we realized that this welcome screen is targeted at people that are new to using Q4 Press, and more advanced users would quickly tire of the fact that they have to land on this screen and then navigate away to work on the things that were important to them. This prompted us to include the ability for more advanced users to skip past the welcome screen (this is done via a check box on the welcome screen that the user ticks off, all subsequent logins will land them on the dashboard).
We think this feature is a great one and we hope you do to. If you would like to find out more about Q4 Press please email catherinec@q4websystems.com or call 416-789-7829 ext 225 and we will be more than happy to give you a demo of the product.
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We’re excited to announce the release of a number of feature upgrades now available on Q4. We’ve been listening to our clients and are happy to provide this set of improved features focused on the real-time integration of social media both in terms of publishing updates to Twitter and Facebook and integrating content into the site from social media content sites like YouTube.
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We’ve been hard at work over the last couple of months preparing for the latest release of Q4 PRESS. I’m pleased to announce our latest release for September 2008 which brings a host of improvements to handling importing of MS Word documents as well as performance tweaks that help speed up processing of long financial documents.
