Prism hosts US user conference

The largest Prism User Conference in North America saw 40 attendees gather in Chicago to learn about developments in the company’s WIN and QTMS graphic arts software applications.

Manfred Lange, Prism technical director for management information system (MIS) product development, spoke about the software architecture that allows users to benefit from reliability, security and functionality. David Sparling, Prism technical director for Prism QTMS, gave users a preview of the latest version of QTMS that will be released at Graph Expo in September. Forty attendees from across the US and Canada attended the four-day event.

Lange, travelling from Auckland, New Zealand, Prism's worldwide headquarters, described the move toward Prism WIN's three-tier architecture: ‘Architecting three discreet modules for the user interface, business rules, and database allows Prism to update each of the modules independently as enhancements and technology dictate,’ said Lange. ‘This also sets the stage for continuing Prism's heritage of open architecture and connectivity to external systems. We are continuing to supplement the existing Prism WIN Connect module with state of the art web services allowing robust and secure two-way access to the database layer.’

President and CEO Filip Buyse provided a year in review which included Prism's strong financial performance, business unit performance and goals, and organizational changes. Buyse also highlighted the successful year in North America with record new sales.

This year marks the first year that Prism holds three user conferences around the world within a 12 month period open to all Prism customers. Chicago was the first conference with two additional conferences in the UK and Australia. The next Prism user conference is in Birmingham, UK, September 6 and 7, 2011.

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