Documentum, Inc. Licenses Visual Basic for Applications From Microsoft.PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1996-- Documentum(TM), Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DCTM) today announced that the company has entered into a partnership agreement with Microsoft Corp. in which Documentum will license the Microsoft(R) Visual Basic(R) programming system, Applications Edition. Visual Basic for Applications will be included as part of the Documentum DocPage Builder(TM). Documentum customers and partners will be able to use Visual Basic for Applications to customize Documentum products and imbed im·bed v. Variant of embed. imbed Verb [-bedding, -bedded] same as embed Verb 1. business process rules. With Visual Basic for Applications, Documentum customers and partners will be able to build custom application scripts that can be deployed across a variety of platforms, including Windows 95 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) Workstation operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and in the future with MAC OS. "By including Visual Basic for Applications as part of Documentum's toolkit, we're providing our customers with the ability to more easily build custom applications across the enterprise," said Jeffrey A. Miller, Documentum president and 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. . "Because of the popularity of Visual Basic, we're offering a tool that most of our customers are familiar with and are able to use." With Visual Basic for Applications, Documentum continues to deliver on its commitment to provide its customers and partners with the capability to create robust, customized applications. The company also currently supports development with Java and popular 4GL programming languages. "We believe Documentum's customers will benefit from added support of Visual Basic, Application Edition version 5.0 by being able to customize their applications to fit their own environments," said Bob Muglia, vice president of development tools at Microsoft. "In adding support for Visual Support Visual Basic for Applications 5.0 into its toolkit, Documentum is continuing to implement in its complete document and Web content management solution a series of important integrations with Microsoft technologies." Visual Basic for Applications allows software developers to easily extend and customize their tools. Visual Basic has become the most popular implementation language (language) IMPlementation language - (IMP) An extension of B with floating-point operations, developed by W. Davidsen at General Electric in 1970 for the GE 600. It was also cross-compiled to VAX and Intel 8080. and productivity suite on the Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Documentum intends to deliver this functionality as part of its product suite in an upcoming release. About Documentum Documentum (http://www.documentum.com) develops, markets and supports a family of enterprise document management products that improve the effectiveness of the organization based on a company's business-critical information and proven processes. Headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif., Documentum sells its products and services through a direct sales force, systems integrators, and affiliated distributors in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Documentum is the recognized leader in the document management market, with worldwide customers in the pharmaceutical, process manufacturing The manufacturing industry that uses process control systems. See process control. , computers/electronics, and finance industries. -0- Note to Editors: Documentum and the Documentum DocPage Builder are trademarks of Documentum, Inc. Microsoft, Visual Basic, Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft, Corp. All other brand names mentioned above are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Documentum, Inc. Sharon McNeill, 510/463-6800 smcneill@documentum.com or Niehaus Ryan Group Rick Bruner Rick E. Bruner is a media researcher and blogger. He is Research Director of DoubleClick, a provider of interactive advertising software. He began his career as a journalist. , 415/827-7058 bruner@nrgpr.com |
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