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MetaCommunications Delivers Rapid Development Tool for Building Workflow & Document Management Database Applications

Monday 12. October 2009 - New tools allow IT Departments and Developers to quickly design and deploy applications to the Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 desktops of the marketing, creative design, and production teams they support.

MetaCommunications today announced the immediate availability of Workgroups 2010’s built-in rapid development tool for IT departments and developers in marketing, creative design, packaging and prepress industries. The new development environment provides IT groups and developers with the ability to quickly build and deploy database, workflow, and document management applications.


“Using the rapid development tools in Workgroups 2010, a complete workflow and document management solution can be designed, built, and deployed to a team of 1 or 1,000 in a matter of days.” said Robert T. Long, Executive Vice President of MetaCommunications.


While the development tools in the new Workgroups 2010 suite are primarily intended for developers with basic to advanced knowledge of JavaScript and SQL, more experienced developers can extend functionality with plug-ins and integrate with third-party systems using .NET plug-ins, SOAP, JSON, and more.


Concurrent with the release of the new development tools available in Workgroups 2010, MetaCommunications also launched a Developer Center community website. The new Developer Center provides Workgroups developers, administrators, and users with a place to interact with each other and a Resource Exchange to share pre-built Forms, plug-and-play Solutions, and example Code Snippets for quickly implementing new functionality in their applications.

Rich Desktop Integration


Applications developed using Workgroups 2010’s development tools have access to desktop plug-ins for several prominent software packages, enabling users to automate tasks and access information directly from the native applications they work in throughout the day. Plug-in integration is available for AutoCAD, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and the Mac OS X Finder.

Desktop and Server Support


Support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 ensures that your users can run your applications on the latest desktop operating system (support for previous versions of these operating systems is included as well). Server components can be hosted on the following:

SQL Server 2008 (including Express Edition)
SQL Server 2005 (including Express Edition)
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2003
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP