Spireframe News

December 5, 2008   Download Financial Statement Data Instantly

We are proud to announce the completion of a Value Investor beta version which includes access to our new online financial data service. This data service offers financial statement data extracted and compiled directly from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission data archives. Using Value Investor, you can download financial data for the company of your choice instantly and immediately. This solves the number one problem our users and customers have experienced: an easy way to access detailed financial statement data for companies traded on the major stock exchanges of the united states. Popular financial websites typically only offer a few years worth of data, but our data service contains data for each company for each year they have submitted data. Value Investor offers a simple search screen to find the companies you are looking for, and immediately save the company data into Value investor installed on your computer. This new version of Value Investor and the data service are both in a beta stage, meaning we are letting a select number of users try the software and the data service for free. The data service will be offered as a subscription-based service in the coming weeks. Until then, anybody can download and try the software by going to our company website at this address: http://www.spireframe.com/CreateAccount.aspx Once you sign up as a beta user, you can access the Value Investor beta download link, plus have access to instructions and news of the entire beta process. As we receive feedback from users, we will post updates to the software and more explanations of the data service and enhancements we plan to make. The Value Investor development team is conducting the beta stage of Value Investor, and can be contacted at: support@spireframe.com or our contact page at: http://www.spireframe.com/Contact.aspx

January 25, 2008   Value Investor 1.3.9 Released

Value Investor Basic and Professional have been updated to version 1.3.9 today. This is an incremental release, aimed at fixing several small but important bugs reported by users. We plan to make a few more small revisions throughout the first quarter of 2008 and will be sure to keep you posted. There is always a way to make existing software better, and we are working on ours continuously. If you see something odd while using Value Investor, or have ideas for improvement, just contact us.

January 18, 2008   Value Investor 1.3.8 Released

The latest version of Value Investor Basic and Professional have been released today. Both versions are now at 1.3.8. Visually, the product looks the same as the previous version, but underneath there are two major changes made to prepare Value Investor for future changes. 1. Replaced the data storage. We replaced a simpler XML-based storage system with a much more powerful and versatile SQLite data storage system. This change will allow us to make software updates and enhancements faster and more efficient, and enable us to respond to your feedback and ideas much more quickly. Efficient data storage is key to a robust and professional quality application. We touched nearly every corner of the Value Investor source code to make this change and have already seen the software performing solid and stable with the new data storage system, opening future version of Value Investor to great new possibilities. 2. Error reporting can be sent back to us automatically. Every version of Value Investor goes through both rigorous automated and manual testing to make sure changes to the software are well tested. After all this testing, and you still encounter an error, Value Investor will show an error report screen. You can simply press the 'Send' button and the error will reported automatically to our online bug tracking system. You can enter a description about what happened or your email as well, but these two things are optional. So, you can send the error report to us completely anonymously if you want.