FREE evaluation copy available from Pine Island Software: Beehive ftp forms
– The fastest, most secure, way for prepress and printing companies to send
forms and files across the Internet. Now in MAC and Windows Clients
FISHERS, IN July, 14 1998 – Pine Island Software breathes new life into an
old standard with the release of Beehive ftp forms v2.0 . Beehive ftp forms
has merged the html forms standard with drag and drop ftp to create an
application suitable for handling repetitive forms and file transfers such
as those found in the printing and prepress industry. With this release,
Pine Island has also resolved the long standing security problems with ftp
by implementing a “secure key” system that encrypts the ftp site, path, and
access information so that multiple senders may send to the same site
without security risk.
According to Mark Bennett, President Pine Island Software, “Beehive ftp
forms has been designed from the ground up to accommodate Internet forms
and file transactions; it has an architecture that permits printing
companies to use Internet Service Providers (ISPs) instead of having to
invest in expensive in-house resources.” Bennett continued, “Beehive
piggybacks the web sites that printers already have at their ISP”.
The Beehive ftp forms system uses the “Simple as 1-2-3” workflow on both
Mac and Windows platforms:
1 – drag files or folders onto the Beehive icon,
2 – fill out the html form that pops open, and
3 – click “send” to start transferring the files to the remote ftp server.
Prepress customers prefer the simplicity of Beehive’s folder dropping and
visual form interface to the standard file selection interfaces of the
competition. Beehive forms can be created with any html editor and the
Beehive application can display virtually all standard html form-objects,
including: popups, checkboxes, radio buttons and tables, to name a few.
To further support Internet workflow, Pine Island has developed an ftp
post-processing application called Beehive ftp manager. If a printer is
using a remote ISP to house the ftp server, the Beehive ftp manager can
automatically poll the remote ftp server, move the received files to the
appropriate work queues, print the form as a notification, generate e-mail
receipts to the senders, and perform all of the file decoding and
administrative tasks. The Beehive ftp manager also generates secure access
keys and can call external scripts to accomplish other post-processing
tasks.
Beehive ftp forms has been bench-tested against other traditional ftp
clients for basic file transfer speed. It was found to be faster than both
Fetch and Anarchie, especially in higher bandwidth transfers over ISDN, T1
and Ethernet. When compared to e-mail based file transfer systems such as
Eudora or FirstClass, Beehive was found to be as much as 50% faster! When
the file transfer speed advantages are coupled with the interface
efficiencies, Beehive becomes the clear choice for busy printing, prepress
and publishing workplaces.
The Beehive ftp forms application costs $29.95 per user for either Mac or
Windows platforms. A 10 user license bundled with both Mac and Windows
clients and the Beehive ftp manager (Mac or Windows), retails for $295. An
unlimited user, ftp site license sells for $1595. FREE valuation copies may
be downloaded from the web site at:
www.thebeehive.com.
Pine Island Software has been developing file transfer solutions for the
printing, prepress, and other workflow environments since 1991. Pine Island
has over 1500 customer sites in 12 countries with over 20,000 licensed
Beehive users and 25 licensed dealers.
Pine Island Software
Developers of Beehive Workflow and File Transfer Software
P.O. Box 707
Fishers IN 46038-707
Ph: 317.841.0638
Fax: 317.841.0975
www.thebeehive.com