Future Processing has achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification.
The audit was conducted by DAS Polska, a Polish arm of DAS Certification which
is an independent British certification company accredited by UKAS
(United Kingdom Accreditation Service). Future Processing
has a comprehensive Quality Management System that addresses all areas
of its software operation. "Our commitment to quality and its continous
improvement has always been a part of Future Processing's culture.
The certificate is further evidence of our approach to
software development and aim to provide the best possible
service to our customers.", says Tomasz Ciapala, Quality Manager at Future Processing.
Future Processing opened a new software development centre in "Nowe Gliwice" Business and Education Centre at Bojkowska 37. The new offices will accomodate our constantly growing software team in Gliwice area.
We have started a project for a London-based company, SoftMAR that specialises in the development of software for Ship Owners, Charterers and Operators. Our team has taken responsibility for a new product and will also assist with the development and maintenance of older applications.
Future Processing is a member of the National Outsourcing Association (NOA), the only outsourcing trade association in the UK. Formally established as a not for profit company in 1993, the NOA operates as an independent organisation - its principle objective is to boost the effectiveness and success of outsourcing, through the promotion of best practice and innovation in the application and development of outsourcing.
The NOA is focused on promoting and sharing best practice in outsourcing
Future Processing has won a software outsourcing contract from a London-based insurance company, Steamship Insurance Management Services Limited. We have taken responsibility for some of the modules of the company mission-critical case management system. The project is based on Microsoft Sharepoint and utilises different aspects of the .NET platform.
We sponsored a programming contest organised by Silesian University of Technology. Participants had to solve a number of algorithmical tasks within a 5 hours session. Future Processing has funded prizes for the best 4 students: 1st Tomasz Łakota, 2nd Mateusz Gajczewski, 3rd Marcin Tanistra and 4th Mateusz Brzeszcz. The best participants will represent the university at the Central European level of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Future Processing opened a new development centre in Gliwice in Technopark building at Konarskiego 18c. It will accommodate our embedded programming and hardware design department.
The new offices are located in close proximity to Silesian University of Technology, which should strengthen our partnership with the university.
On the 7th April 2008 we organised the second Future Processing Academic Day. Its main theme was computer vision. During the day we presented an intelligent video monitoring system, which was of interest to many students turning up at our stand. In the afternoon we had a lecture about computer vision systems, including presentation of our new product, Adaptive Vision Studio. Additionally, during the lecture the results of algorithmical as well as logical contests were announced. 76 students took part in the logical contest and the prizes, including iPod touch, went to the best participants.
On the 15th January 2008 Future Processing organised the first Future Processing Academic Day at Silesian University of Technology. We presented data acquisition and processing systems in e-ticketing and access control applications. An attraction of the day was a logical contest and lecture "Modern Graphical User Interface design in practise". Both the lecture and contest turned out to be very popular. 81 people participated in the contest and we had winners of iPod touch 8GB and 10 pendrives 1GB.
Future Processing is now a member in the Microsoft Certified Partner Program. As a Certified partner, Future Processing has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers' needs. "We have always been focused on Microsoft technologies and achieving Microsoft Certified Partner status is just a logical step forward", comments Jaroslaw Czaja, Chief Executive at Future Processing. "It will not only give us an access to a rich set of benefits but also will have a positive impact on the services we provide to our existing and prospective customers."
Future Processing has been accepted into the ISV/Software Solutions Competency, which recognizes Future Processing's expertise in software development on the Microsoft Windows platform.
We started a project for Wayfarer Transit Systems, the UK market leader in the bus systems and ticketing machines. Future Processing's team will be involved in design and development of Wayfarer's new software platform as well as maintenance of some older software packages.
We have successfully completed testing and obtained the Certified
for Microsoft Windows Vista Quality Logo for Adaptace 3.0.
It has met standards of reliability and quality, and has been tested
and proven to deliver a more secure and compatible experience
with Windows Vista. The latest version 3.0 of the software contains
a set of new plug-in components, which enable visual and more
ergonomic data mapping.
Future Processing has added a new client to its portfolio. easyLog is a British software house, providing ready-made and bespoke applications for the service sector. Its main focus is on creating employee and data management systems for organisations with large numbers of casual staff, often working away from the main administrative centre.
The company asked us to make its Home Care product more attractive to users by rewriting the code to make it more up-to-date, introducing a new graphical user interface (GUI) and adding web-based functionality. It chose to outsource to Future Processing because, as an experienced company with a highly-skilled workforce, we were able to deliver the quality of service it required at a competitive price.
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New version of our system integration software, Adaptace, has been released. It offers better scalability and more flexible architecture that will enable rapid development of new database and application connectors (as plug-in components).
We moved to new offices in Bytom. The previous Katowice address will be valid until the end of 2006. The new building will become our main software development centre with office space for 20 software engineers.
Feedback Data has launched Microtrak Evolution, an entirely new access-control product featuring software developed by Future Processing. Designed to meet the needs mainly of SMEs, Microtrak Evolution is a modular system that combines facility and personnel management, real time monitoring and post-event analysis. We designed the software from scratch, using state-of-the-art technologies to create a highly functional and user-friendly package that could be offered at an attractive price.
Microtrak Evolution is one of many projects we have worked on for Feedback Data, one of the UK 's leading manufacturers and suppliers of time and attendance systems. To read our Microtrak Evolution case study, click here.
