Action expands Metro beyond traditional workflow and provides integrated database access; Internet workflow pioneer and Web tool leader team together to offer a robust solution for the development of collaborative Web applications.ALAMEDA Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1997--Action Technologies Inc., a leader in Web- and LAN-based workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. and work management software, and Allaire Corp., a leader in Web application development tools, today announced that they have signed a joint marketing agreement to offer developers an integrated tool set for quickly building powerful, collaborative Web applications that incorporate valuable data from any ODBC-compliant database. Action has bundled Allaire's Cold Fusion cold fusion or low-temperature fusion, nuclear fusion of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, at or relatively near room temperature. Fusion, the reaction involved in the release of the destructive energy of a hydrogen bomb, requires extremely product into its Metro 3.0 Development Center offering. Metro is a suite of Web-based workflow software that includes ready-to-run Intranet applications and a complete set of tools that simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of collaborative business applications on the Intranet and Extranets. Cold Fusion is a general purpose Web application development tool for companies looking to integrate databases, email, and other server technologies into dynamic Web applications. Organizational use of the World Wide Web began with the companies developing a first wave of "applications" for their Intranet sites that published valuable corporate data. As the next wave of applications begins to emerge, companies are looking to leverage their investment in Web technologies and build high-value collaborative applications that allow them to conduct interactive business transactions over the Internet. Developers of these collaborative applications require an integrated, robust suite of tools for workflow and process management, as well as easy integration with database servers, messaging servers and other server technology. Likewise, they need tools that can not only ease the development process, but straightforwardly support the definition and management of business rules. Additional requirements include support for detailed reports that can be used to evaluate various efficiency metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. associated with workflow applications A workflow application is where various applications, components and people must be involved in the processing of data to complete an instance of a process. For example, consider a purchase order that moves through various departments for authorization and eventual purchase. , such as cycle time and workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands. distribution. The combination of Cold Fusion, for database application development, and Metro, for workflow and process management, gives developers the powerful suite of tools they need to build collaborative business applications for the Web. As an example, Baylor Health Care System (BHCS BHCS Baylor Health Care System (Texas) BHCS Bore Hole Compensated Sonic (well logging tool for oil & gas) BHCS Big Head Club Society ) of Dallas, in developing an Intranet-based workflow application for pharmaceutical contract negotiation, required access to data used in the contract negotiations. The combination of Metro and Cold Fusion allowed BHCS to develop an application that provided them with a coordinated online business process that facilitated contract review and provided easy access and management of their discussion database and contract data stored in Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. . "Because the combination of Cold Fusion and Metro is so strong, companies that are looking to develop and deploy robust workflow- enabled business applications via the Web will find that they have a solution that not only preserves their investment in existing data, but allows them to create applications that are highly responsive, interactive and coordinative," said Barrett Williamson, Action's vice president of application development. "Collaborative, workflow-enabled applications are a major part of the new generation of Web applications being deployed on corporate Intranets," said Jeremy Allaire In 1995 Jeremy D. Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother JJ Allaire, creating the web development tool Cold Fusion. When Macromedia acquired Allaire in March 2001, Jeremy became Chief Technology Officer. , director of technology strategy at Allaire Corp. "The integration of Cold Fusion with Metro 3.0 offers innovative corporations a bundle for building cutting edge workflow and process management applications that can easily be extended to deliver a wide range of dynamic Web application functionality." Availability Action has bundled Cold Fusion Professional 2.0 in its Metro 3.0 Development Center offer. The Metro 3.0 Development Center includes all the software and licenses necessary to build custom workflow-enabled business applications. Metro 3.0 and Metro 3.0 Development Center is available immediately from Action Technologies. Contact Action's Customer Relations at 1-800-WORKFLO or at CustomerRelations@actiontech.com . Cold Fusion is available immediately from Allaire. Visit the Allaire Web site for more information or to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. a free 30-day evaluation of Cold Fusion at http://www.allaire.com . Contact Allaire directly by phone at 888/939-2545 or 617/761-2100, or by email at info@allaire.com . About Allaire Corp. Allaire is a leading Boston-based Internet software firm dedicated to creating development tools for the Web. Allaire's products include Cold Fusion Professional, HomeSite, and Allaire Forums. Customers include Fortune 500 firms, small and medium-sized businesses, major universities, government agencies and Web presence providers worldwide. Allaire's products are distributed through a direct sales force, system integrators See systems integrator. , VARs, and resellers. Allaire was founded in 1995 and is based in Cambridge, Mass. For more information, contact Allaire Corp. directly at 617/761-2000, by e-mail at info@allaire.com, or visit Allaire's Web site at www.allaire.com . About Action Technologies Inc. Founded in 1983, Action Technologies Inc. is the premier provider of LAN- and Web-based workflow and work management software. Action offers a suite of software products including: ready-to-run applications; and business process design and workflow automation See workflow. tools used for the rapid design, development and deployment of work management applications for knowledge workers across the extended enterprise. Headquartered in Alameda, Action sells it products worldwide through a direct sales force as well as through systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. , VARs and distributors in 25 countries. Additional information and product demonstrations are available on Action Technologies' web site at http://www.actiontech.com . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: ActionWorks is a trademark of Action Technologies Inc. Cold Fusion and Cold Forum are trademarks of Allaire Corp. All other brands and products are trade names of their respective companies. CONTACT: Action Technologies Sumi SUMI Software Usability Measurement Inventory (measures software quality from the user's point of view) Shohara, 510/748-1045 sumi_shohara@actiontech.com or Allaire Corp. Adam Berrey, 617/761-2161 aberrey@allaire.com or Pride Rock PR Beth Johnson, 415/440-4548 sfpr@concentric Coming from the center, or circles within circles. For example, tracks on a hard disk are concentric. 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