News

News from 2006 to 2012.

December 2012

CFS gets consulting contract with Macy’s

Custom Flow Solutions started a catalog publishing automation consulting project with Macy’s in New York, providing automation services and consulting on workflow and process automation.

May 2012

CFS starts delivering financial graphics for Australian newspaper group APN

APN began printing financial layouts produced by CFS using Reuters data.

January 2012

CFS designs and delivers financial layouts in Arabic

At the request of Reuters in the Middle East, CFS designed Arabic versions of Reuters Financial Infographics. Four Arabic layouts became available for daily subscription by newspapers in the region.

June 2010

Custom Flow Solutions announces HyperGraph Financial

The release of HyperGraph Financial, an infographics automation solution for financial services: charting, layouts, reports, profiles and product fact sheets from any data source, on demand or on a schedule.

February 2010

CFS and Thomson Reuters share a booth at SABEW

Hanaan Rosenthal joined Jean-Francois Huertas of Thomson Reuters at the SABEW conference in Phoenix to present Reuters Financial Infographics to financial editors.

February 2010

Financial graphics for Tribune Group papers

CFS began delivering daily financial graphics to Tribune Group papers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Reuters Financial Infographics, in operation since 2008, was now printed in over ten million daily newspapers.

May 2009

CFS automates the annual weather chart for The New York Times

A system to produce the newspaper’s yearly weather chart.

May 2009

CFS and Reuters introduce Reuters Financial Infographics at SABEW

Hanaan Rosenthal joined Reuters’ global director of marketing to introduce Reuters Financial Infographics to hundreds of financial newspaper editors.

February 2009

Financial layouts for the International Herald Tribune

The IHT’s financial pages began carrying layouts produced by CFS’s automated server, which extracted Thomson Reuters data and produced three layouts, three times a day, for the paper’s international editions.

July 2008

Custom Flow Solutions announces HyperGraph

The engine behind the graphics at The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press was branded HyperGraph, for automating charts, pages or entire newspaper sections.

April 2008

Millions of daily readers

More than 5.6 million daily readers of The New York Times, The Boston Globe and AP member papers were seeing graphs created by CFS software.

January 2008

John Thorsen Jr. joins Custom Flow Solutions

John Thorsen Jr., founder of TECSoft, joined CFS to lead quality assurance and client relations.

January 2008

Hanaan Rosenthal speaks at Macworld San Francisco

Hanaan’s fifth year presenting on publishing automation at Macworld.

October 2007

CFS automates Money & Markets graphs for The Associated Press

An automated system to produce high volumes of graphs for AP member organizations, operational within two months.

August 2007

CFS automates The New York Times weather page

After the success of HyperGraph on the business pages, the Times adopted it to automate the weather page for its four editions: New York, Boston, Washington and National.

December 2006

Year-end financial graphs for The Boston Globe

CFS updated its automated system at the Globe to produce the year-end versions of the financial graphs in the daily paper.

November 2006

Pages remembering American casualties in Iraq for The New York Times

A system that automated the layout of pages depicting the thousands of American casualties in Iraq, so the Times could print them on time.

September 2006

Second edition of Hanaan Rosenthal’s AppleScript book

Apress published the second edition of “AppleScript: A Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X”.

July 2006

CFS automates the redesigned Money & Markets graphs at The Boston Globe

After more than ten years working with the Globe, CFS automated the graphs in its Money & Markets section.