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Press Room
Seagull Scientific Introduces Commander in BarTender Upgrade
BELLEVUE, WA, USA - November 13, 2000--Seagull
Scientific has announced the release of version 6.1 of its BarTender label software. The release includes CommanderTM, a new enterprise software integration tool that expands upon technology Seagull originally developed for the DataDetector utility previously distributed
with BarTender. While Commander's primary focus continues to be the integration of label printing into the various hardware and database
platforms found in enterprise environments, Seagull says that Commander can handle more general integration functions as well.
"Our original product, DataDetector, was designed to be as flexible as
possible," says Don Ray, President of Seagull Scientific, "but it still surprised us when we actually found customers using it to also control non-labeling functions. This sparked a lot of interest here at
Seagull so, with a major upgrade already planned, we
opted for a more extensive redesign that includes numerous advanced features, such as multi-threaded print job processing. We've named the new product "Commander" because it better reflects its ability to control a larger variety of applications."
The Commander software utility, according to Seagull, greatly simplifies the task of getting two or more applications to work cooperatively, even though they may not have been designed to work
together. Commander does this by waiting for certain data or commands to be output by a "source" application and then initiating a custom response in one or more "target"
applications. For example, if Commander sees a data file generated from a manufacturing program, it could respond by launching a BarTender job for box labels, a job for a pallet label, and additionally signaling an
EDI application to create an advance shipping notice.
Although Commander is Windows-based, Seagull says that it can monitor output from most applications and platforms, as long as they are "visible"
on the network. And, according to Seagull, Commander can simultaneously monitor multiple sources and events and initiate responses in multiple applications on different computers. For more information visit
www.seagullscientific.com contact sales@seagullscientific.com, 800-758-2001. Seagull Scientific will be in Stand C in the Software Pavilion at Frontline Solutions 2000 in Frankfurt, Germany November 14-16.
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