P R E S S ~ R E L E A S E
Bellingham, WA March 8, 2002
Beehive Software is now providing complete, turnkey file transfer services to printers, prepress houses, publishers and all their customers and affiliates. Beehive secure, file transfer software coupled with DELL Internet appliance hardware, Commodity Internet bandwidth and InterLand hosting - gives printers all the file transfer components they need, with just one monthly fee.
This service was formed to begin offering an open systems file transfer alternative to "proprietary file transfer" systems like WAMNet, VIO and Mass Transit. The Beehive solution uses standard Internet Bandwidth, hosting services and appliances to deliver VERY large files (typically in excess of 500MB). Many IT managers at printing and publishing companies do not want to continue to maintain proprietary systems in parallel with their corporate Internet connectivity. Beehive ensures that "File Transfer" is an integrated component of a "Standards-Based" Internet facility.
Beehive is the most cost effective solution for very high volume environments. Beehive monthly costs are typically 30% of the costs of WAMNet, and customers do not face the 5-figure startup costs of Mass Transit. Customers can choose to implement a low cost, entry level ASP-based system and then migrate to the "Industrial-Strength" stand-alone appliance solution.
The Beehive WAMNet replacement system is based on the widely installed Beehive file transfer system. Beehive is the most feature rich product of its kind available today. The Beehive product line is designed to support "customer choice" - choice of client platform (Mac, Win, Browser), choice of implementation (ASP or appliance), and choice of ISP (use your own ISP). Beehive is also a completely customizable application that permits the addition of custom forms, images and workflows. Beehive "Smart forms" allow the built-in, Beehive html forms to be embedded with special applets that can accomplish a wide variety of collateral tasks such as on-line job quoting, air courier waybills, special database integration and more. The Beehive file manager also allows the system administrator to choose "ala carte" from a long list of automated file processing tasks including, file retrieval, file decompression, file decoding, receipts, notifications, forms printing, auto-print queueing, scripting and more.
In December of 2001, Beehive Software replaced ftp, the old Internet standard for file transfer, with Beehive Https - the first multi-platform implementation of a secure, high speed, Https Large-File transfer system using Apache web servers. With the release of Beehive Https - anybody on the Internet can send Gigabyte files to any other user that has a current browser and an email address. This new protocol breakthrough is another piece of the Beehive file transfer framework - designed to bring reliable, secure file transfer solutions to the Graphic Arts, Newspaper and Medical Imaging Industries.
Beehive's multi-platform, secure Beehive Https release, marks another file transfer FIRST to the long list of Beehive file transfer FIRSTS:
Beehive (including it's private label versions) is the most widely installed, standards-based, file transfer software in the printing, prepress and newspaper industries with over 1000 site licenses and 20,000 end users. Beehive is private labeled under several names including Ftp Central by RR Donnelley, PipLink by PIP Printing, and ReproNet by Service Point (U.K.). Beehive also runs at most Gannett newspapers.