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 are pleased to announce the launch of Gabriel Resources embedded Q4 WEB IR site. Coming in March of this year we are going to be releasing a number of new products and features that we are really excited about. One of them is this new IR site product that runs on our Q4 WEB platform.
In addition to our core features, press release, stock and filing data feeds are available as well as segmented RSS feeds and email alerts.
Best of all, the IR site is hosted on your company’s web site domain and seamlessly integrated into your web site.
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.
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.
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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.
We are pleased to announce the launch of 
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.
