With over 3 million customers, Shaw Cable is one of the largest providers of Digital Phone, High-Speed Internet and broadband cable television in North America.

NTG recently helped Shaw Cable develop a “technical design document” that ensures best practices for implementing Flash Media Server (“FMS”). NTG was an integral part of the project by providing consulting services that included installation and configuration of FMS servers, the development and use of a testing tool for the Video on Demand application, and the creation of FMS Server custom code.

As a recognized leader in manufacturing space hardware subsystems for satellites and other spacecraft, COM DEV is committed to delivering products of exceptional quality to customers as quickly as possible. To accomplish this, the company must efficiently manage vital engineering support processes, including Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) required to manage changes to product designs and Material Number Requests (MNRs) to control parts procurement.

Using Adobe LiveCycle ES solutions, engineers can quickly and efficiently review ECNs to accelerate managing changes resulting from product line expansions, new customer demands, obsolescence, and other factors. MNRs – which previously required manually inputting data into as many as 50 SAP screens – are now filled in automatically, significantly reducing data entry time and errors while improving data integrity. After a project team member enters MNR data into a single, intelligent PDF form, the newly entered data is populated automatically in all back-end systems.

As a result, the combined savings from the more automated ECN and MNR processes are impressive. “By moving to Adobe LiveCycle ES and working closely with integration partner New Toronto Group, we hit our efficiency and service targets,” says Debbie Schuett, project manager for COM DEV.

Read the whole story at http://www.adobe.com/showcase/casestudies/comdev/casestudy.pdf

Use.com, one of the fastest-growing image hosting sites on the Internet, provides users with a quick and easy way to upload, edit, share and link photos.

NTG was chosen to help Use.com build a Flex-based bulk image uploader. Previously, Use.com users were limited to uploading two images at a time. As the popularity of the site sky rocketed, there was a need to enable users to select multiple images for quick and easy uploading. By using Flex, NTG was able to seamlessly integrate the new uploader into Use.com’s image hosting site.

When Use.com had an additional requirement to enable image editing, they again turned to NTG for help in creating Flex based Image Editor that would allow users to add speech bubbles, resize, rotate and crop their photos.

Visit Use.com at: http://www.use.com .

Fluid Galleries 3, a Flex-based web site manager that allows professional photographers to create, manage and host a portfolio website online, is now available. NTG is very proud of the role we played in helping Evrium to migrate to a Flex platform. Fluid Galleries now offers unparalleled freedom to create professional-looking websites without needing to know Flash, HTML or any other web development languages. By simply pointing, clicking and dragging, photographers can create and brand a truly unique web experience for their customers to view their work.

NTG was chosen by Evrium for our strong Flex-based application development experience and our ability to take a sophisticated UI vision and realize it in a fast and robust application. We also leveraged our expertise with Adobe BlazeDS, Java, MySql and Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) to make our client’s vision a reality.

Please visit https://www.fluidgalleries.com/examples to enjoy some example layouts created with Fluid Galleries 3.

December, 2009 – New Toronto Group announced the start of a blog to provide in-depth technical discussions of the various technologies in which we have expertise. Employees will offer tips and techniques based on their experience with projects and teaching authorized courses in areas such as Adobe Flex, Adobe Livecycle, Coldfusion, Microsoft Silverlight, and Microsoft Sharepoint.

Chad Upton, who is heading up the initiative said, “You know, we have a wealth of knowledge that comes from our day to day experience with these products and we needed a good place to share that expertise. This blog will allow us to maintain a searchable repository of technical information that will be available to people both inside and outside of the company.”

To view our blog, visit: http://www.newyyz.com/NtgSite/blog/index.php

NTG is pleased to announce that it has been chosen to speak at this year’s Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco, taking place on September 17th through 19th. Oliver Merk, a Principal Consultant at NTG will speak on the topic of Advanced Tips and Tricks for Flex Builder 3 on Monday November 17th at 3:30pm. The session will explore some of the more advanced features of Flex Builder 3 and will present tips and tricks for enhancing your productivity with features like re-factoring and the outline view, as well as powerful keyboard shortcuts.

NTG is very excited to announce that Chrysler’s WiTech application has been selected as a finalist in this year’s MAX awards. NTG worked with Chrysler for several months in the development of this Adobe Flex-based application. Final judging results will be announced at the MAX 2008 conference in San Francisco during the week of November 17th.

NTG is pleased to announce that following an extensive evaluation of alternatives by the Ontario Provincial Government, NTG has been named as vendor of record for e-Conferencing and e-Training, based on Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional suite of products. NTG is Adobe’s premier Connect partner in Canada, specializing in software re-sales, authorized training and consulting. NTG previously worked with The Ministries of Health and Long Term Care, Education and Government Services to provide Acrobat Connect Pro based solutions for e-learning and web conferencing.

NTG is pleased to announce that it has achieved the Microsoft Certified Partner status. The process for certification involved the acquisition of customer references and the successful completion of formal technical competency exams. NTG is focusing its Microsoft software development and consulting expertise in the Silverlight and SharePoint arenas. NTG is also focusing strongly on the delivery of formal classroom training on a variety of Microsoft enterprise related software products.

Following Microsoft’s consideration of NTG’s qualifications, NTG is pleased to announce that it has achieved Microsoft’s Learning Solution Competency. NTG’s extensive training expertise and the high quality of its classroom facilities were keys to achieving this important designation. The Learning Solutions Competency cements NTG’s move to deliver premium quality training in Microsoft product areas relating to SharePoint, Silverlight-based Rich Internet Application development, as well as a variety of other product areas.

As well as sponsoring the Adobe MAX conference, New Toronto Group will also be delivering two seminars to MAX 2007 attendees. Rod Nolan (Senior Instructor) will be presenting a ColdFusion lecture, while Oliver Merk (Principal Consultant) will be leading an all-day hands-on Flex seminar.