Checking in With You – About Corvina

According to Jura, COVID-19 has required a lot of strategic rethinking. The company’s core way of conducting business has always been in-person, building rapport with current and future clientele via personal contact.

Recent events, however, have prompted the company to think on its feet and to think differently. And with the absence of events and travel, it has had more time to look for improvements, choosing to focus – among other projects – on Corvina.

Corvina, launched in 2014, is the company’s a complete pre-press solution for security printing. Since its launch, Jura has added a number of upgrades – modules, features and tools – to make it more functional and user-friendly.

There are currently four packages within the Corvina family – Entry, Classic, Prime and Engraver – each differing in terms of module variety, complexity and target audience. The Corvina Prime package, for example is designed to meet the needs of high security prepress solutions, compared with Corvina Entry and Classic, which are commercial pre-press solutions.

Jura releases maintenance packages twice a year, but given the extra time and the circumstances of last year (and this), deemed that a different approach was necessary for the next release.

The company has been focusing largely on feedback-based software development, beginning with the creation of an extensive feedback pool with information provided by the company’s graphic designers and its partners as well – an acknowledgement that the input of all users (be they in-house or customer) is crucial for the software’s success.

It is the data derived from this feedback that has enabled the development of new modules and features, which have been put to test by designers. Jura states that it has been pleased with the progress, and is glad to be able to ease and aid the design process in a major way.

Jura’s latest mission with Corvina is a workflow which is efficient and transparent throughout, each step designed to factor in and implement some of the anticipated changes automatically, thereby speeding up the design process. Developers have worked on extending and outlining workflows, the automation of which being one of the main objectives.

These refinements are being released, with many more to follow that are aimed to speed up and smoothen the design process.

‘Corvina is an ever-growing project shaped by designers who are using it day after day,’ says the company. ‘This pandemic situation can’t divert us from our main objective of this project; to strive for our customers’.