First of all, I would like to thank all of our customers and partners for a fantastic year!  We’ve been able to forge new ground with our business and I believe we have a multitude of innovations yet to come!

Our blog has been quiet these past few months, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been working.  Safi Systems is moving forward with many exciting new developments, products and features that will be unveiled throughout 2012.

We are very proud of the products we have constructed thus far and we hope to build upon that foundation and stretch it into some exciting new areas.  We feel that our core application has evolved into a system that has the ability to address a wide range of business and telecom needs and in 2012, we will be adding even more power to what we have to offer.

Some of our immediate focuses will be:

• Removing some of the common setup road blocks we have seen this past year.
• Refreshing our series of screencasts
• Updating/Reworking of the wiki (wiki.safisystems.com)
• Adding some additional tools to help our partners and resellers
• The next major version of the Safi Communication Suite: Version 1.6.0!

There will be more information on the all features in Version 1.6 in a later post, but one of the more exciting additions is a whole new set of ActionSteps for creating and handling events.  This will allow all kinds of dynamic applications that require asynchronous behavior.  For these asynchronous applications we will also be adding a group of advanced steps that will allow you to easily to control thread access to specific sections of your Saflets.  Version 1.6 will also contain steps to help streamline the creation of common IVR groups of functionality (i.e. a single step for playing a prompt and listening for digits with choice style exit paths built in).

We are committed to making 2012 Safi Systems best year yet and we truly hope that all of yours are prosperous as well.

Have a great 2012!

Eric and the Safi Systems Team

We have just completed another round of testing (internally) and we are currently testing (with the help of some outside beta testers) our official release of SafiServerCE and SafiServerPro.  We are very excited for this long-awaited official release and we believe you will find the features incredibly valuable.  The “Pro” edition will have new features like scheduling, direct file access, email handling, and a more flexible core data base system.

Also, both SafiServer and SafiWorkshop (Pro and CE) will be natively compiled.  So far we have seen a substantial boost in performance (especially on the SafiWorkshop side).

Moving out of beta, there will be some changes to the Community Edition.  Most prominent will be a limitation on the number concurrent connection ports (to a maximum of 5 ports).  Here’s a full list of the features that each edition of SafiServer will contain:

*The number of active Telco ports in Professional and Enterprise Editions is dependent on the number of ports purchased.

We expect to have the official released available sometime next week.  For more up-to-date information, be sure to follow us on twitter (twitter.com/safisystems) and/or “like” us on facebook.  You can also sign up to be on our mailing list.

Thanks,

-Eric