Mountain View, CA Ð Boss Logic will extend its active document-managment system with richer features for compound documents, version control, and notification. Document Manager 2.0, set for release this month, also includes an API (application program interface) to allow closer integration with other programs.
The new release confirms the company's interest in the NeXT market, after spinning off its custom-development business and announcing plans for a Windows port early this year.
According to Peter Rip, president of Boss Logic, the upgrade positions Boss as a total information-management system, in contrast to competitive programs that store and retrieve documents but provide little in the way of managerial control.
Key new features include the ability to manage compound documents and relations between documents; automated notification of document changes; the ability to control access to parts of documents; management reporting of document histories and audit trails; and templates for easily setting document attributes. The API will permit developers and customers to access the program's functions through alternative user interfaces, the company said.
The Boss system consists of server and client software and includes a full run-time version of Sybase, the underlying database for the program. It is priced at $995 per user and is available as a shrinkwrapped product or through VARs and system integrators.
Boss Logic can be reached at 415/903-7000.