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The roots of the company date back to 1992 when Graham Duncan
founded Database Publishing Services, to build on earlier
work in providing multimedia media publishing systems, allowing
companies to produce CD-ROMs, websites and print-ready output
from the same database. The initial successes here were Random
Century with the Hutchinson Multimedia encyclopedia (from
1987, and the world’s first multimedia encyclopedia)
and World Book International, the main US encyclopedia. Between
1992 and 2000 the company grew organically, with IPS set
up in 1996, initially as a partnership with two other companies,
with ourselves still trading as Database Publishing. During
this time we developed a close link with Warwick University
and, through this, a close link with Sun Microsystems. This
led to our developing the UK’s first large scale Java
application, a product called Datascape, for Dow Jones Telerate,
as they were then. This was a trading platform which provided
a Java implementation of TradeStation.
Recent successes have been for the Ministry of Defense (MoD)
and Threadneedle Asset Management (TAM). For the MoD we put
in a publishing system for the Admiralty which allows for the
rapid dissemination of updates to navigational charts, a process
called Notices to Mariners; human life would be at risk if
there were any failures, inaccuracies or tardiness in the dissemination
of this information, so the selection criteria, which led to
our own selection, was largely based on technical competence
and proven know-how. For TAM we provided the fund factsheet
publishing component to their new deployment of Documentum.
The work carried out for TAM led on to providing a comprehensive
factsheet publishing solution for Mellon Global Investments
(MGI). In developing this solution we have listened to and
analyzed in detail the issues faced by a marketing department
within the Asset Management industry. This has led directly
to the development of iPlus, a product which is focused on
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