Commence Designer Edition Version 3.0 Now Shipping

(New Version offers increased scalability and customizability)

Oakhurst, NJ (November 12, 2003) -  Commence® Corporation has announced the release of the Designer Edition Version 3.0. The Designer Edition, one of the award winning family of products from Commence has become the tool of choice for IT professionals looking to build and deploy custom software solutions.

The product allows users to manage their business information across networks and within workgroups, including remote networks and off-site locations. The Designer Edition is ideal for tracking and managing people, projects, images and information and offers a complete, all-inclusive package for creating departmental business applications. The product includes a developers toolkit, database engine, workflow engine, synchronization engine, and report writer.

The Designer Edition is completely customizable, making it ideal for vertical applications or specific industries. The product is implemented in a number of diverse markets such as healthcare, government, finance, legal, construction, furniture and more.

Version 3.0 adds an impressive Forms Designer that enables the user to create highly customized and cosmetically appealing data entry forms. This feature enables forms to be updated with more descriptive field labels and help text that can be used to guide end users through the data entry process, ensuring more accurate data capture.

The new version is also more scalable, with significant increases in functional capacities that enable the products expansion throughout the organization. In addition, enhancements have been made to the user interface to incorporate Windows XP cosmetics for menus and toolbar. This augments the look and feel of new or existing applications designed with the product.

Other improvements include increased queries, with the ability to quickly switch between different pre-built views of information and a letter template library that now supports up to 600 templates available to all users throughout the workgroup.

The products powerful calendar feature has been enriched to display information for multiple appointments made at the same time and will now allow the user to display weekly activities and directly schedule new appointments.

Version 3.0 offers additional functionality for end users and developers alike. Its added flexibility will enable customers to enjoy easier to use cosmetically appealing applications.

The Designer Edition is available through a worldwide distribution channel of value added resellers and system integrators throughout the United States and abroad.

Founded in 1988, Commence Corporation is a global provider of software solutions and application development tools. Commence maintains thousands of users through a worldwide distribution network, with outlets in North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. For more information, contact Commence Corporation at 877-COMMENCE or visit the company's web site at www.commence.com.

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