Cambridge, MA — July 13, 2009 CambridgeSoft’s ChemBioOffice Workgroup is designed for 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 2010, adds more E-Notebook, BioAssay and Inventory 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 working collaboratively and in need of a shared solution, but lacking 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 12 component of Workgroup 2010 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. With Windows Authentication users may now log in as either domain or SQL users. E-Notebook 12 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 2010 release furthers our commitment to excellence at all product levels. ”
ChemBioOffice Workgroup Pro 2010 is comprised of the three Workgroup applications: BioAssay Workgroup 12.0, Inventory Workgroup 12.0, and E-Notebook Workgroup 12. Workgroup Ultra 2010 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 academic research organizations. Software products include enterprise, workgroup and desktop, versions of Chem & Bio Office, including Chem & Bio Draw, with knowledge management, chemical and biological informatics, and scientific database solutions. Web sites include ChemBioFinder.Com and ChemBioNews.Com for indexed database content and news, and SciStore.Com for e-commerce. For information about CambridgeSoft products, services, and sales worldwide, please visit www.cambridgesoft.com, or call 1 617 588-9300 in America, in Europe call 00 800 875 20000, or in Japan call 0120-146-700.
