Blue Fountain Implement a Workflow solution for BTMU
Blue Fountain have been working with BTMU to develop workflow processes in their European Operations Centre.
Blue Fountain have had one of their solutions selected by the BBC’s Innovation Labs
The Innovation Labs are a series of creative workshops for interdisciplinary teams of independent new media and technology companies from across England, Scotland and Wales.
Local software company help car manufacturers to move on with "real time" sequencing system
Blue Fountain Systems Ltd impressed the Merseyside Innovation Awards panel with a system which currently is one of a couple of systems available world-wide which successfully manage 'car sub assembly sequence production." The system offers the car manufacturer more accurate stock control and enables them to respond more quickly to changes in market demand - real time.
The Success in Education event by Open School Alliance
The Success in Education event will provide a showcase for the successful deployments of free and open source software in Education from the UK, Europe and around the world.
Blue Fountain acquire JamKit
BFS today announced the accquisition of JamKit, a leading supplier of integrated web solutions to the not for profit sector.
OSS blueSchool wins Excellence in Public Procurement Award 2007
Blue Fountain Systems has been honoured for outstanding achievement at the annual Government Opportunities (GO) magazine Excellence in Public Procurement Awards, part of National Public Procurement Practitioners Day (N3PD) 2007.
Leaders in OSS Educational Software Market Join Forces
Blue Fountain Systems Limited and pteppic.net today announced a partnership agreement to deliver a cutting edge software solution for use in UK schools.
Parliamentary opposition grows against Government IT policy in schools
Massive cross-party backbench support for change in government policy for IT in education.
Government is shutting out Open Source Software for Schools
BFS has joined leading IT professionals and educationalists to ask if the Government is forcing a one-size-fits-all IT solution in our schools?
blueSequence wins Best Supply Chain Award
Blue Fountain Systems are this years winner of the Supply Chain Management Category of the British Computer (BCS) Information Management Awards.
“Just In Sequence” system delivered for ThyssenKrupp Automotive (Ford)
Blue Fountain Systems have successfully delivered their 4th business critical sequence production system for the automotive industry, this time for TKA Body Stampings Ltd, a key parts supplier to Ford Motor Corporation.
Stockport Council sign up to blueSchool
Liverpool Direct Limited (LDL) www.liverpooldirectlimited.co.uk have selected Blue Fountain Systems www.bluefountain.com as a partner to deliver a state of the art web based strategy to provide an e-communications infrastructure for 30,000 mail users with integrated email, calendar and content management for Stockport Schools. The system is designed to handle 5000 simultaneous users.
To Russia with Love
BFS Managing Director Hirohisa Iwasaki has just returned from a business trip to Russia which included visits to both Moscow and St Petersburg.
Andy McKay joins the BFS team
Leading Plone developer and author of “The Definitive Guide to Plone” Andy McKay has joined Blue Fountain Systems Limited to head up their Plone Development Team.
BFS join Oxfam at Ploneability 06
BFS joined Oxfam GB recently in a very successful one day mini-conference to introduce Plone CMS to charities and non-government organisations or NGO's.
BFS open new office in the Czech Republic
BFS are pleased to announce the opening of our new office in Prague and welcome Ms. Reiko Date as the Sales Manager here.
Global Logistics on the Web
BFS have delivered a state of the art web based stock management system for Yamatake Europe. The decision by Yamatake Europe to implement a web based system was prompted by the long lead time for delivery of ordered goods from Japan. A main feature of the new system, written in Zope and PostgreSQL, is its ability to automatically calculate stock levels and order amounts for 3 months in advance based on shipping information from Japan and on the 12 months sales forecast from clients.
BFS launch BLUE STOCK - a web based virtual warehousing system
BFS are please to announce the launch of Blue Stock their new warehousing and stock management application. The system, which is web based, provides a series of tools designed to take the pressure out of stock control enabling logistics managers and MRP planners access to understand stock situations and plan for future needs. The system can be seamlessly integrated into existing accounting based and/or SAP installations and without modification elements of the system can be opened to suppliers and customers to allow seamless sharing of data.
BFS develop a 2nd business critical sequence system for the automotive industry
Blue Fountain have implemented their second business critical sequence system this time for Futaba Industrial UK Ltd. The system will manage the instructions for the robot controlled weld cell operations for a large Japanese car manufacturer based in the East Midlands.
BFS secures place on FP6 R&D Project Team
Blue Fountain are part of a successful consortium to win an FP6 research and development project. The project “Nanospad” brings together a range of universities, research institutes and private companies from across Europe to research and develop a miniaturized diagnostic tool for use in the identification and treatment of allergies. BFS have the key responsibility for developing the software interface for the system together with the management and dissemination of all data produced.
