Cambridge, MA – 5 December 2008 -- CambridgeSoft’s inaugural release of ChemBioOffice Workgroup in early 2008 was welcomed by smaller organizations looking to organize and search over their inventory, purchase reagents, as well as manipulate and store chemical and biological data in a collaborative fashion. The latest release, ChemBioOffice Workgroup 2009, adds more E-Notebook functionality available previously to Enterprise customers only.
Prior to the release of Workgroup, customers had only Desktop and Enterprise solutions to choose from. Desktop served the needs of individual users, while Enterprise supported large organizations using Oracle. Workgroup, compatible with Microsoft SQL Server, addressed the need for an “in between” solution. Now small groups that work collaboratively and need a shared solution, but which may not have the resources to deploy a fully fledged Oracle Enterprise application, can benefit from the functionality of a robust solution without the cost of extensive customization and deployment.
The E-Notebook 11.5 component of Workgroup 2009 further narrows the gap between Workgoup and Enterprise by addressing a number of customer requests for features. With E-Signatures, users can now electronically sign documents with coauthors and witnesses and store them in a separate database to protect intellectual property. The Work Offline feature allows individuals to work while disconnected from the database, and then synchronize the changes once reconnected. With Batch Explorer, users can now view a reaction tree showing successors and predecessors of a selected batch or compound. E-Notebook 11.5 also offers improved text and structure searching, and each of the Workgroup components (E-Notebook, Inventory, BioAssay) now support Microsoft Office 2007.
“We are very pleased with how Workgroup has been received in the market,” said Michael G. Tomasic, Chairman and CEO of CambridgeSoft. “We now have a solution for every customer, no matter what their size or budget. Companies can “grow up” with CambridgeSoft solutions, graduating from Desktop to Workgroup to Enterprise as their needs change, with an easy migration path from one level to the next. The Workgroup 2009 release furthers our commitment to excellence at all product levels. ”
ChemBioOffice Workgroup Pro 2009 is comprised of the three Workgroup applications: BioAssay Workgroup 11.0, Inventory Workgroup 11.0, and E-Notebook Workgroup 11.5. Workgroup Ultra 2009 adds the ChemBioViz Ultra suite (ChemBioDraw Ultra, ChemBio3D Ultra and ChemFinder Ultra) of scientific desktop applications for a complete scientific software solution for chemists and biologists at their desktops and across their organizations.
About CambridgeSoft:
CambridgeSoft develops and markets life science enterprise solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical companies and scientific research organizations. Software products include enterprise, workgroup and desktop versions of Chem & Bio Office, including Chem & Bio Draw and E-Notebook, with knowledge management, chemical and biological informatics, and scientific database solutions. Web sites include ChemFinder.Com and ChemBioNews.Com for indexed database content and news, and SciStore.Com for e-commerce. CambridgeSoft has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please go to www.cambridgesoft.com.
