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CorasWorks Launches Online Showroom of Business Applications Running On Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta.


RESTON, Va. -- CorasWorks Corporation, the leading provider of workplace application software on the Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. , today announced its launch of a new online Application Showroom which offers professionals from around the globe the opportunity to go hands-on with a live environment of integrated business applications running on the beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions.  of the upcoming next generation platform - Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities.  SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007).

The Showroom is being released on the heels of the public Beta 2 release of MOSS 2007 (May 23rd) and Microsoft's first ever Global SharePoint Conference last week in Bellevue, Washington Bellevue is a rapidly growing city in King County, Washington, U.S., across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle,[1] it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. . Through the new CorasWorks Showroom, organizations have the ability to experience CorasWorks modular business applications running on the SharePoint 2007 collaboration platform. The new Showroom currently offers access to four applications:

--A Program Management Office (PMO PMO Prime Minister's Office
PMO Premier Oil Plc (stock symbol)
PMO Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (USA Milk Industry)
PMO Provost Marshal's Office
PMO Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
) that demonstrates the ability to design an enterprise PMO that centrally manages project work distributed throughout a SharePoint environment. This application showcases the new CorasWorks application configuration management capabilities. In addition, this PMO demonstrates the new power of CorasWorks Cross-Connect(TM) displays that join information from distributed SharePoint lists and/or external data sources such as SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. .

--The Showroom also includes a Sales Portal, a Customer Portal, and a Partner Portal. These three applications can be used stand-alone, or, as demonstrated in the Showroom, they can be inter-connected into a single workplace. This integrated workplace demonstrates the ability to define "workstreams" that manage the flow of work between Internet, Intranet, and Extranet zones. These applications also show integration of new capabilities in MOSS 2007 such as Windows Workflow Foundation The workflow subsystem in Windows Vista. Part of the .NET Framework 3.0 programming interface (API), Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) enables tasks to be automated. Workflows are described using .NET programming languages or the Extensible Application Markup Language (see XAML).  (in WSS WSS Windows Sharepoint Services (Microsoft)
WSS Web Services Security (OASIS)
WSS Wavelength Selective Switch (Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer) 
), Forms Server (in OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ), and the use of the Business Data Catalog to access external data (in OSS).

"CorasWorks is excited to be able to offer organizations such early access to a live SharePoint 2007 environment with practical business applications that they can start working with today," said William Rogers There are several men named William Rogers (and similar spellings), among them:
  • William P. Rogers, U.S. Attorney General under Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State under Richard Nixon.
  • Will Rogers, the "Cherokee Kid" cowboy, and humorist.
  • Will Rogers, Jr.
, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of CorasWorks. "Our new SharePoint 2007 Showroom should help professionals understand the new level of modular business application functionality that's available to them and how it rivals leading commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) applications that are not on the SharePoint platform."

In addition to the experience of working with complete business applications, the Showroom highlights key new features of CorasWorks that leverage and extend the platform capabilities of SharePoint 2007. Within this Showroom, CorasWorks plans to continue to release new applications and demonstrate other upcoming features of the CorasWorks Workplace Suite for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 over time.

CorasWorks' Showroom for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 complements its existing online Showroom which offers organizations hands-on access to a broad set of business applications built using CorasWorks' modular software on the SharePoint 2003 platform. Access to both Showrooms is free and available by visiting CorasWorks' Web site: www.corasworks.net. Both are also designed to simulate real-world situations and allow visitors to learn more about the modular application software CorasWorks offers organizations interested in quickly building integrated business applications without requiring custom programming.

About CorasWorks

CorasWorks(R) Corporation is the leading provider of workplace application software on the Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) collaboration platform and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. The CorasWorks Workplace Suite is being used in hundreds of enterprise, corporate, non-profit, and government organizations in more than 20 countries around the world to build powerful and flexible integrated business workplaces, without requiring custom programming. The CorasWorks Partner Program now has more than 70 partners certified to assist customers in implementing, designing, and building their workplaces on SharePoint. For more information, visit www.corasworks.net.
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