News & Events

Squiz today announced its acquisition of the enterprise search engine technology and services company Funnelback. Funnelback’s flagship product Funnelback Enterprise is is used in some of the most demanding web environments by a broad range of customers including the Australian Federal Government, Oxfam and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Squiz’s acquisition of the company will bring this leading edge search technology to the global MySource Matrix customer base, helping Squiz’s growing portfolio of high end enterprise web site customers to deliver more sophisticated and intuitive end user search solutions.

Radio New Zealand National has been named New Zealand’s best radio station at the 2009 New Zealand Radio Awards in Auckland - the first time a public service broadcaster has won the radio industry’s top award.  In addition to its Station of the Year award, Radio New Zealand also received the award for Best Radio Website www.radionz.co.nz and collected a clean sweep of industry awards for best news including Best Coverage of a News Story, Best Newsreader and Radio Journalist of the Year. 

 

Mr. Cavanagh said he was particularly pleased that the radio industry had recognised the success of the Radio New Zealand website which had revolutionised the organisation’s relationship with its listeners in recent years. 

 

“A huge volume of our programming can now be time-shifted by our listeners as audio-on-demand or downloaded as a podcast. In calendar year 2008, more than six million Radio New Zealand programmes were replayed through the internet.  Many of those listeners were New Zealanders living and working overseas who were unable to listen to traditional live radio broadcasts.” 

Congratulations to MySource Matrix CMS users Far North District Council and Dunedin City Council on their ALGIM Web Awards, presented at the ALGIM Web symposium at Wellington on Monday, May 4.

Far North District Council won the ‘Best Redevelopment Website’ award, for the Council's main Internet site www.fndc.govt.nz.

The website was built on the MySource Matrix CMS along with the Council’s intranet, and was launched in November 2008. Staff from the Council’s web team and Squiz New Zealand worked together to implement the sites, which are now managed by the Council, supported by Squiz.

Dunedin City Council won the ‘Best New Feature’ award, for their Job Vacancy system www.dunedin.govt.nz.  The system was implemented in MySource Matrix by the Council’s web team.

Having defined web content management systems (CMS) for over a decade, Squiz is delighted to officially launch the MySource Mini CMS appliance.

On Thursday, April 30^th 2009 on the edge of Sydney Harbour, over 60 invited guests watched lead developer, Greg Sherwood, demonstrate the revolutionary Viper editing interface with true inline click-to-edit functionality. Squiz managing director, John Paul Syriatowicz introduced the demonstration:

 

“Leonardo da Vinci once said that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. We are proud to introduce the MySource Mini, the culmination of a huge development effort from an outstanding team of Squiz developers. This CMS offers sophisticated enterprise-class functionality to a much larger audience through its simplicity, low cost and flexibility.”

 

Designed for smaller or brochure style sites, MySource Mini is an integrated hardware and software appliance. Sherwood demonstrated that in addition to amazingly simple editing, there is integrated help to appeal to users without technical expertise, cutting training and support costs. MySource Mini also comes with automatic updates and the flexibility of several easy design templates.

For further information, go to http://www.squiz.net.au/mysource-mini or contact Squiz.

We are delighted to announce that Squiz Australia has been appointed to the NSW Government Panel Contract for Provision of ICT Services for Whole of Government - CONTRACT 0800542. The three year contract commenced 1st March 2009, and contract deeds are being finalised. The new contract 0800542 for Whole of NSW Government ICT Services replaces a number of other panel contracts including ITS 2305 - Internet Products and Services under which Squiz has been supplying software and services to NSW Government since November 2002.

 

"Squiz looks forward to enhancing our existing long term relationship with the NSW Government and working with all agencies in an effort to reduce the total cost of ICT and enable all service and support requirements to be delivered as cost effectively as possible" according to Squiz Director, Steve Barker.

 

The new contract enables Squiz to supply to the NSW Government a wide range of professional services including Web Services, Development Services, Software Support Services, Systems Integration Services, Major Project Systems Integration Services, Whole of Government Requirements, Professional Services, Project Management Services, Data Management, Major Project Systems Integration Services, Hardware Maintenance Services, Managed Services, Telecommunications, Change Management Services, Knowledge Transfer Services.

Having defined web CMS for over a decade, Squiz is proud to unveil the hardware/software CMS appliance that allows you to easily plug and build your website or intranet, MySource Mini. Developed by Squiz, the MySource Mini appliance is a fusion of groundbreaking new CMS software and custom web server hardware. My Source Mini makes it easy to create, manage and serve content without requiring technical skills or specialised training. Be among the first in the world to experience our Viper editing interface that offers true inline WYSIWYG click-to-edit functionality. Register now to confirm your place at the private launch in Sydney at the WatersEdge, Pier One on Thursday 30th April 2009 followed by drinks and canapes.

Check out the MySource Mini Brochure.