IOWA CITY, IA - MetaCommunications today announced the immediate release and availability of Workgroups 2010 with built-in support for improved Adobe InDesign and InCopy CS4 collaborative publishing workflows.
 
"With InDesign and InCopy, Adobe provides some basic tools for editorial and design collaboration right out of the box," said Robert T. Long, Executive Vice President of MetaCommunications. "We extend and enhance these capabilities by wrapping their capabilities into a more robust suite of publishing workflow and collaboration tools that truly allows teams to work together and stay in sync across multiple projects and rapidly changing environments."
 
The new support extends the capabilities of the native Adobe CS4 collaborative publishing workflows in several key ways:
            
-Integrated support for multiple parallel publishing workflows and projects
-Automatic email notifications, alerts, and reminders to keep everyone up-to-date and production documents out of email
-Automatic and manual routing of assignments and tasks
-Support for document versioning
-Timelines, due-dates, and scheduling for all tasks and activities
-Built in collaborative review and approval workflows for production and finished content
-Trafficking and scheduling of design, copy, and editorial content in publishing, web design, and other creative workflows
-Web dashboards for managers, designers, editors, copywriters, etc... provide each user with an immediate understanding of all their responsibilities across all their projects