27th May 2010
Another event of Future Processing Academic Day took place on 27th May 2010 at Silesian University of Technology. This edition motto was "We pay for the mistakes" - we organized a series of contests for students. Participants were seeking for the mistakes in the code, for which they received awards. Part of the event was also a lecture "Java - developer's toolbox" led by experts from our company. This time console Nintendo DS Lite was drawn among the participants of the lecture. Once again, we invited students to our office to let them see our work.
22th April 2010
April 22 was the ceremonial day of FParks construction opening. The technology park FPark will be the new headquarter of Future Processing. The event is also important for the development of Gliwice city, as FPark is the first investment in Nowe Gliwice Business Zone. Thus, new technologies entered the "Nowe Gliwice" for good. The ceremonial signing of the opening act as well as laying the foundation digital stone Future Stone was jointly made by the Chairman of Future Processing, President of Gliwice city and CEO of Local Development Agency. Completion of the first phase of the investment is planned for spring 2011. All construction works are expected to be finished in 2013. Read more about FPark and see the construction process.
4th April 2010
It is the second time, that we have arranged Deadline 24 contest in co-operation with the Silesian University of Technology. Its success convinced us to set it as annual programming event. On 6th March there was a remote qualifying round for students and pupils all over Poland. We invited the best 30 teams for the final 24-hour programming marathon. A month later on 6th April finalists appeared at Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science of the University to take part in unique 24-hour non-stop programming battle. This edition was won by The Warsaw Wyżerka team: Szymon Acedański, Konrad Gołuchowski and Karol Kurach from Warsaw University. The winners returned home with Nintendo Wii gaming concoles. More info on www.deadline24.pl
14th January 2010
On 14th January 2010 Future Processing Academic Day was once again organised at Silesian
University of Technology. The event was made attractive by a lecture about how to become professional programmer and what kind of engineers are needed in good companies. Traditionally, part of the even was a logical contest. This time the main prize was Netbook ASUS Eee. Additionally, Nintendo Wii console was drawn among participants.
2nd December 2009
Future Processing has sponsored IT Academic Day conference organised at Silesian University of Technology. We were asked to lecture on a new edition of Visual Studio 2010 Team System development environment. The lecture attracted a lot of attention from students and it is planned to organise an extended one at the beginning of 2010. At the end of the event some prizes were drawn. It included a netbook with accessories. We would like to thank everyone for participating in the conference.
22nd June 2009
Future Processing was engaged in development of new generation business management software for packaging industry. Abaca Systems, our new Liverpool-based customer, requested us to build the product using .NET 3.5 technologies. The project was divided into phases with the accounting module constituting the initial phase.
18th May 2009
On 18th May 2009 Future Processing Academic Day was once again organised at Silesian University of Technology. During the event students participated in lectures about software quality, best practises in software development as well as algoritms in industrial vision field. The results of a programming contest based on Adaptive Vision Studio were presented during the latter. A new initiative at this FPAD was 'Open Doors' event at Future Processing main development centre. A minibus was taking students to our offices, where visitors could find out more about Future Processing organisation and projects.
26th April 2009
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 Daniel Malinowski, 2nd Tomasz Łakota, 3rd Mateusz Brzeszcz and 4th Wojciech Lis. The best participants will represent the university at the Central European level of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
15th April 2009
Future Processing and Silesian University of Technology jointly organised the first Polish 24-hour programming marathon - Deadline24. The contest took place on 14th-15th April at Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science of the university. Contest's unique formula attracted a lot of programmers. Over 60 people took part in the marathon, including students of Silesian University of Technology, Warsaw University, Wroclaw University, Jagiellonian University and pupils of top silesian high schools. After a hard match Deadline24 was won by MOKIP Warzywa: Jarosław Błasiok, Tomasz Kociumaka, Jakub Oæwieja. For more information visit Deadline24 website.
17th March 2009
Future Processing started working for a new Cambridge based company, Firmstep. Firmstep provides software solutions to UK local government. Future Processing took over their maintenance as well as some of the new product development.
10th March 2009
Future Processing is accredited with the status of Gold Certified Partner from Microsoft.
Building on our previous status as Microsoft Certified Partner, by achieving Microsoft Gold status, our customers can have an even higher level of confidence in any Future Processing solution. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners have passed the highest level of requirements from Microsoft and have demonstrated the most robust, efficient and scalable implementations of Microsoft technologies in demonstrated enterprise customer deployments or an on-site Microsoft assessment.
10th March 2009
Future Processing has achieved a new Microsoft Competency in Custom Development Solutions, with a specialization in Web Development.
The competency focuses on delivering web-enabled solutions using Visual Studio, ASP.NET, IIS, Windows Server 2003, and SQL Server. This achievement showcases Future Processing's capabilities for developing custom applications within the Microsoft framework.
9th February 2009
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC is the international publishing, events and electronic information group, delivering business information to the finance, law, energy and transport sectors for over 35 years. Euromoney decided to outsource to Future Processing some of the current software maintenance as well as new product development. Our company was chosen because of a highly-skilled workforce and flexibility we could offer to meet Euromoney's changing demand.
14th January 2009
On 14th January 2009 Future Processing Academic Day was once again organised at Silesian
University of Technology. This time we presented image analysis systems and a personal finance monitor application thas has been recently developed by Future Processing. The event was made additionally attractive by a lecture about object oriented programming and
a logical contest.
5th January 2009
New edition of Programming League started on the 5th January 2009. It is an opportunity to
verify algorithmical skills of the best programmers at Silesian University of Technology. The League aim is to select the most talented students that will represent the university at Polish Academic Championship and international ACM programming contest.
Future Processing once again sponsors the Programming League. Money prizes and training periods will be funded for the four best contestants.
9th October 2008
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.
22nd September 2008
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.
15th August 2008
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.
11th August 2008
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.
12th May 2008
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.
11th May 2008
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.
1st May 2008
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.
7th April 2008
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.
15th January 2008
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.
31st July 2007
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."
31st July 2007
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.
2nd July 2007
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.
24th May 2007
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.
20th April 2007
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.
Click here to find out more about this project
15th December 2006
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).
1st December 2006
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.
1st September 2006
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.
