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Cephrus Completes Bohemian Highway Commercial for Foster’s Wine Estates
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BIOKO ISLAND, Equatorial Guinea – Cephrus has completed it’s first phase of filming on location in West Africa in order to produce the film for Discovery Channel. The film will cover many aspects of the social and economic impact with the country recently discovering that it may have 10% of the world’s natural gas reserves just off its coast.
“We had some interesting challenges that we had to overcome- one being that the country has a high humudity (90%+) on most days this time of the year and that causes many issues with our equipment.” Says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services. “All in all, we managed to complete 42 interviews in less than five days including capturing nearly 10 hours of b-roll”, continues Jonathan.
Cephrus will return in late March to complete phase 2 of the project which will include more interviews and the loading of the first LNG tanker to leave the brand new facility in Punta Europa. “Cephrus has been producing documentaries for the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, TLC and many more for over 12 years and we look forward to being called on to produce many more in the near future”, says Elliman.
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Cephrus Completes Bohemian Highway Commercial for Foster’s Wine Estates
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NAPA, Calif. – Foster’s Wine Estates announced the final approval for the Bohemian Highway commercial produced by Cephrus Creative Services. Filmed on location in Sonoma County, the film will be used to launch Foster’s new Bohemian Highway brand.
“This was a fun film to produce since we had the artistic freedom,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services. “We found the perfect location to film along the Bohemian Highway along with weather and fall foliage we could have only dreamed to have”, continues Jonathan.
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Bechtel Corporation Contracts Cephrus to Produce Equitorial Guinea LNG Film
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BIOKO ISLAND, Equatorial Guinea – Cephrus has been awarded the job of producing a film for Bechtel’s latest project located on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. Cephrus will travel to the location and film for four days which will include interviews of employees and the Prime Minister.
“Cephrus is known for be called upon for projects like this,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services. “We had less than a weeks notice to prepare for this trip to a very remote region. Our team will cover the location for 4 days and return to post the project. We’ve been working with Bechtel for nearly 12 years now and are proud of many of the award-winning film projects that we have completed for them”, continues Jonathan.
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Domaine Chandon Hires Cephrus to Produce Film
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YOUNTVILLE, Calif. – Cephrus announced today that they have been hired by Domaine Chandon to produce a film that will produced as a year-in-review type presentation.
“Chandon has a lot to show for themselves for 2006 with the opening of their restaurant, lounge, club and new branding and it was fitting to put this kind of video together”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services. “Cephrus has always produced a superior value in a short turnaround time”, continues Elliman. “We look forward to any opportunity to continue to impress our clients.”
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Cephrus Delivers Marketing Video to Kunde Estate
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SONOMA, Calif. – After four months of production, Cephrus is excited to announce the final delivery of the Kunde Estate feature. Running just over six and half minutes, the video covers over hundred years of the Kunde family’s history of farming in Sonoma County’s Valley of the Moon region.
“We were thrilled to work with the Kunde family along with the support from Joel Quigley of Paige Poulos Communications”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services. “We shot over 30 hours of interviews and b-roll while covering almost all of their 1800 acres of land and have delivered a wonderful piece that will be an excellent additional to their press kit”, continues Jonathan.
The video will soon be made available at www.kunde.com
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Cephrus Plans to Triple Production Capacity for 2007
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus has announced plans to triple their production capacity by expanding their current team capacity which is conjunction with their office expansion plan currently underway. Cephrus is currently seeking talented individuals that have a vested interest in being any of the following positions: Office Assistant, Public Relations Manager, Marketing Assistant and Intermediate HTML programmer to become a part of this fast-growing company.
“We make it a part of our business plan to add individuals to our team roster before there is a true need to ensure that our clients get the best experience period”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services. “We like to add new members to our team long before there is a need so that they are properly trained in our ways of working so they are properly prepared before they are placed on any large projects”, continues Elliman. “We have a philosophy of “learn by doing” rather than what education or experience you may have had since we have a unique approach to our projects. Our next level of members to be brought on board have limited or no experience at all, but they possess the drive to learn and succeed- and that’s what is important to us. We want individuals that share our vision of working closely with our clients by delivering a superior product of high value”, continues Jonathan.
Cephrus plans to officially launch their web-based Point-of-Sale v2 system January 15th, 2007 and with the response they have received so far, Cephrus is making the committment now to bring new members on to meet the demand for their Submerce platform to ensure a quality product and unparalleled customer service.
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Del Dotto Vineyards To Use Cephrus’ New Submerce™ Event Coordinator Module for Cave Tours
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – After a rigorous design and development schedule, Cephrus has released the long-anticipated Event Coordinator expansion module for their Submerce™ eBusiness platform. Designed exclusively for the wine industry, the web-based program allows both an administrator and web site visitors the opportunity to check the availability and make reservations for tours and tastings 24/7.
“We’ve been working on this module for some time and saw that there was a large need for a tool such as this”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services. “This first version is only the beginning as we have big plans for this module which we’re keeping to ourselves at the moment until we have the next version completed by Spring 2007”, continues Jonathan.
“Working directly with a busy winery like Del Dotto Vineyards really helped speed up the process since we could see where there were opportunities to improve and simplify the process”, says Tim Holtermann, Senior Programmer. “Pairing this module with our POS system makes the solution even better as you can then offer discounts or credits for tour fees applied directly to purchases”, says Saraha Elliman, Director of Sales and Marketing. “Being able to check appointment availability online, book it and then have the opportunity to reschedule without having to call, makes it that much easier on the winery as it reduces the volume of calls quite a bit”, continues Elliman.
“Our mission is to continue developing the most robust, scaleable and affordable eCommerce and Enterprise platform on the market”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Serivces. “All current users of the Submerce™ platform are encouraged to submit ideas for future development as Cephrus is always on the lookout for new ideas from the wine industry. Modules such as the Event Coordinator are created based on that feedback and beta testers get a significant discount on adding these types of modules”, says Elliman.
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Cephrus to Offer QuickBooks 2007 Integration with Submerce™ Platform
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus has announced plans to offer QuickBooks integration with their popular Submerce™ eBusiness platform which will allow users of either the Cellar Edition or Wine Merchant Edition the option to export transaction information right into QuickBooks.
“We’ve been supporting previous versions of QuickBooks and our QB Export Module has remained quite popular with a variety of clients”, says Sarah Elliman, Director of Sales and Marketing. “You would never have thought that QuickBooks was so widely used for a variety of sizes of companies”, continues Elliman. “We wanted to continue our support of the module as the 2007 version of QuickBooks has changed quite a bit, which in turn, changed the language in which we need to do in order for the integration to remain functioning”
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Cephrus to Restructure Submerce eCommerce Packages for the Wine Industry Starting at $999
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus has released new details about the restructuring of their Submerce™ platform pricing to offer the powerful features and tools their platform provides for a $999 startup fee. With two levels to choose from, Submerce™ Cellar Edition provides more standard features ”right-out-of-the-box” than any other wine-industry related eCommerce software on the market. The Submerce™ Merchant Edition is on a fast-track of providing some of the most advanced features and reporting tools design specifically for Wine Retail or Wine Merchants by offering a web-based POS solution tracking retail, wholesale, online and wine club sales all in one package.
“The $999 Submerce™ Cellar Edition is priced to compete directly with other solutions on the market today, but with the added benefit of including more advanced features along with no transaction or commission fees”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services. “We’ve been hard at work developing our tools by doing just that- concentrating on development”, continues Jonathan.
“Our list of features is true testament to that philosophy as it’s very evident that our software is stable, scaleable and offers the best flexibility for a winery or merchant”, says Tim Holtermann, Senior Programmer. “Giving our clients the choice to design their own solution by mixing and matching Submerce™ modules has been a great success as our clients have responded quite well with our new “a la cart” menu”, continues Holtermann. “And as their needs grow, we can add features like wine club management, multi-channel supply chain management and POS in just a matter of days without requiring our clients to use different different systems for each.”
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Vintage Trust Hires Cephrus to Photograph Properties Throughout California
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – Vintage Trust of San Rafael, California has hired Cephrus.com to photograph eight of their vineyard properties throughout California in preparation of updating their marketing materials. With properties in Sonoma, Napa, San Luis Obispo, Central Valley and Mendocino, Vintage Trust wanted to partner with a company that deliver on time and on budget. After viewing Cephrus’ impressive photography and video portfolio, they knew they found their team.
“I’ve been all over the world taking on photography and video assignments which have been published in some of the top media outlets and love every challenge that are thrown my way”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services.
Cephrus offers photography services for a wide range of industries including entertainment, sports, documentary and manfucturing, engineering and still life.
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Cephrus Sets Plans to Double St. Helena Office Space
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus has announced plans to double the capacity of their St. Helena office by expanding into the adjacent space to offer more room for the addition of creative group. The additional space will also provide additional meeting space, larger video editing and graphic suites, along with ample room to grow their customer service team.
“We were afraid that we were going to need to move to another location to meet the space requirements our expansion plans were going to require” says Sarah Elliman, Director of Sales. After looking at what’s available, we were floored when we found out that the space next door was going to become available” continues Elliman.
“We’ve continued to witness record growth in our company and our plans for 2007 are pretty aggressive”, says Tim Holtermann, Senior Programmer. “We’re just about done with the programming for some major expansion modules for the Submerce™ platform that will continue to set our system apart from other eCommerce providers in the marketplace. “Besides our excellent customer service and support, we’re just putting plans together to market our software publicly”, continues Elliman. “We’ve kept to ourselves for some time as we wanted to focus on developing an eBusiness solution that sets the standard, not follows it.”
January 2007 is marked to be Cephrus’ “coming out” party as they look forward to demonstrating their Submerce™ platform that offers the most reliable platform with the largest set of features and expansion capability available on the market today.
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Cephrus Releases Event and Tour Coordinator Module for the Submerce™ Platform
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus today, celebrated the release of the beta version of their new Event and Tour Coordinator module for their Submerce™ platform. The module can be easily added to any current installation and offers the convenience of offering website visitors the capability to book and manager their tour appointments online.
“Online forms have been a great solution for a number of years, but our mission at Cephrus is to provide the tools that our clients need today and find new ways to simplify, streamline and make it easier to manager their day-to-day activities”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services. “Sure, there’s event coordinator software available on the market today, but nothing comes close to the ease of use and flexibility that our system provides”, continues Elliman.
The Submerce Event and Tour Coordinator program offers the administrator the flexibility to build the available times and group size limits along with the option to require a credit card to hold the reservations. Now, both customers and admins can view and manage appointments up to the minute for cancellations, reschedules and group size changes.
Cephrus encourages all Submerce™ users to join the beta program by calling their account representative to schedule a test drive of the Event and Tour Coordinator program today.
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Cephrus Announces Plans for Advanced Compliance Reporting and Allocation Limits
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus announced plans to integrate a new Compliance and Allocation module for their Submerce™ platform. The Submerce™ State Compliance Tools, which will be released in late December, checks all transactions through the Submerce™ POS, Wine Club and eCommerce for state compliance before the order is accepted, mitigating risk in real time. Detailed monthly reporting for each state is printed directly onto the proper paperwork along with alerts and reminders when each filing is due.
“Our team has a many years of experience in the shipping and compliance industries and we will soon be announcing our new alliance with a shipping company that will extend the capabilities of the Submerce™ platform to new levels”, says Sarah Elliman, Director of Sales for Cephrus. “I’ve been a compliance manager for both a large winery and wine shipping and fulfillment company and my in-depth experience has been a great asset in the development of this module”, continues Sarah.
“This module will be an integral part of the Submerce™ platform, but we’re going to make it application independent so anyone will be able to use our Compliance module with any third-party eCommerce, Wine Club or POS system that can export data”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services. “Of course the ideal situation would be to use it as part of the Submerce™ POS Merchant Edition, but through our research, many wineries are still processing their wine club orders with Excel, and our goal is to give them the tools they need in order to mitigate their state compliance risks”, continues Jonathan. “We’ve got some of the best people in the business when it comes to shipping, compliance and programming to develop the best set of tools on the market, and we’ll be sharing those partnership announcements in the coming weeks”, says Elliman. “We’re all very excited about the upcoming release and the partners we have in place”, says Sarah Elliman.
Cephrus highly recommends any existing Submerce™ customer to contact their tech team in regards to the State Compliance and Allocation module beta program as all participants receive discounts based on their level of feedback.
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Cephrus to Produce Launch Video for Bohemian Highway Wine Brand
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NAPA, Calif. – Cephrus announced today that they have been selected by the Innovative Products Group at Foster’s Wine Estates to product the launch video for their new brand, Bohemian Highway. Slated for December 1st, launch, Cephrus will be filming along the California coast mid-October with post-production being completed at their St. Helena Editing Suites.
“We have a proven track record of producing some of the high-quality films in both the Sonoma and Napa Valleys and being selected once again by one of the largest wine companies in the world is a true testament to our goal of delivering the most value for your budget, no matter what the size”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services. “We’ve produced many launch videos for Foster’s and we’ll continue to deliver on time and on budget”, says Elliman.
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Cephrus to Webcast Bechtel Engineering Leadership Conference
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FREDERICK, MD. – Cephrus has been selected to produce Bechtel’s 2006 Engineering Leadership Conference discussing the latest challenges for Bechtel’s Engineering organization. The finished product will become a webcast hosted by Cephrus’ network of thirteen, secure and reliable servers located strategically all over the world including London, New Delhi, Mexico City, Melbourne, and Tokyo.
“With Bechtel’s engineering staff located all over the world, it’s a bit of a challenge to make sure that every employee has access to this content, especially when many of them are working in very remote areas like Iceland”, says Tim Holtermann, Senior Programmer for Cephrus. “We’ve been known for many years of delivering a solid and reliable webcast platform, including building online management systems, for many Fortune 500 companies, and our team thrives on any challenge- and this project is no different”, continues Holtermann. “We foster our relationship with Bechtel as we have been working with them for over ten years and will continue to do so for a long time as both teams respect one another for their achievements and close reciprocal support”, says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services.
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