April 2008
Circulation of CFS newspaper graphs hits the roof!
Every day, millions of readers get their financial information from graphs automated by Custom Flow Solutions.
Over 5.6 millions daily readers view graphs created by our software in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press.
April 2008
System demo movie posted on CFS site
Now you can see the system in use by The NY Times and the Globe at work. Click here to see the demo.
January 2008
John Thorsen Jr. joins Custom Flow Solutions
CFS is proud to have John join the team as head of Q/A and in charge of client relations
John is an automation veteran who founded several companies such as TECSoft and Connected Hearth
January 2008
Hanaan Rosenthal speaks about publishing automation at MacWorld San Francisco Conference '08.
"This was my fifth year of presenting at MW and it keeps getting better. Paul Kent does a fantastic job at making the speakers feel welcome and get the most out of their time at MacWorld."
October 2007
CFS automates Money and Markets graphs for The Associated Press
In an effort to streamline the production of graphs for member organizations, The AP hired CFS to create an automated system for producing the graphs.
"The match between The AP and CFS was a natural fit." Says Hanaan, "The system was operational within two months and is now enabling The AP to produce a high volume of graphs in various configurations automatically in a matter of seconds."
August 2007
CFS automates The New York Times weather page for the four daily print editions.
After tremendous success using Tricycle, CFS's automated layout system, for automating the charts and layout of the business pages for the daily paper, the system was adopted and is now used by the Times to automate the weather page for the four editions: New York, Boston, DC and National.
December 2006
CFS updates it's automated system at The Boston Globe to produce the year-end versions of the financial graphs printed in the daily paper. Given the flexible nature of the system, the updates were done in a short amount of time and ran flawlessly. "It's always a challenge to create scripts that run only once a year" says Hanaan, "You have one shot to get them right, and I didn't want to be interrupted on New Year's Eve..."
November 2006
CFS creates a system for The New York Times that automates the creation of pages depicting the thousands of American casualties in Iraq.
"This was by far the most emotional project I worked on. It almost felt wrong to automat it, but it was the only way The New York Times could have gotten it laid-out and printed on time." Says Hanaan Rosenthal, Principal at CFS.
September 2006
Hanaan Rosenthal, Principal at CFS, gets second edition of landmark "AppleScript" book published by Apress.
Review: "The 'Comprehensive Guide' subtitle for this is an accurate description of the contents of this book. If you are interested in gaining a solid understanding of AppleScript and its use in the Mac OS X, buy this book. It jump starts your development activities and lays the foundation for a disciplined development style" Mike Lloyd; Mac Guild Review.
July 2006
CFS automates the redesigned Money & Markets graphs printed in The Boston Globe
After working with The Globe for over ten years, CFS gets the call to automate the creation of the graphs printed in the Money & Markets section of The Boston Globe.
