headquarters iowa city usa key people robert long ceo products workgroups davinci software website official website metacommunications is a u.s. software company that develops project workflow and collaboration solutions that automate marketing brand management creative design packaging and prepress processes . metacommunications is based in iowa city iowa . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 workgroups davinci 2.2 approval manager 2.3 virtual ticket 2.4 digital storage manager 2.5 job manager 2.6 proofme 3 software for students 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1991 metacommunications was founded in iowa city as a developer of project management software and collaboration tools for marketing and creative departments . the company later opened additional offices in st. petersburg russia . 1 metacommunications first developed software for in house use and then divested its design and prepress divisions in 1997 in order to focus on software development . 2 3 in 2011 current ceo robert long led an employee buyout of the company . 4 5 in 2014 the company moved its headquarters to a new 14 story building in iowa city known as park 201 . 6 in 2015 the company opened a second downtown space to house the engineering team working on a new b2c product . 7 in 2016 meta opened a new sales office in austin texas . 8 in september 2015 metacommunications closed an 8m series a round of funding led by next level ventures a des moines based venture capital fund and st. martin land company a cedar rapids based investment firm . 9 the investment is the largest to date for next level ventures . 10 meta ceo robert long has indicated the company plans to use these funds to expand its workforce and accelerate its growth in the productivity software market . 11 products edit workgroups davinci edit workgroups davinci combines project management online proofing digital asset management and financial management tools into one integrated solution . the software won a 2014 must see em award at graph expo . 12 approval manager edit approval manager is an online proofing and approval workflow application that is designed to streamline and simplify the client approval process of digital proofs . 13 virtual ticket edit virtual ticket is a project management solution for managing the production of print packaging web photo copy and interactive media . the product helps managers automate workflows track jobs and manage digital assets according to macworld . 14 digital storage manager edit digital storage manager is a document management and storage management solution designed for creative professionals who need to find tag and archive files used in their production processes and automatically monitors multiple online and offline storage locations then applies keywords to the files as they are created and edited by users . 15 job manager edit job manager is a suite of financial management tools described by macworld as a job tracking costing and billing system that lets organizations track jobs capture alterations and obtain costing and billing information ... offering data collection of employee time material usage for jobs analyzing productivity tracking job costs and status and generating invoices automatically . 16 proofme edit metacommunications newest product proofme is a video image text and web content review and approval tool for creatives . 17 software for students edit the company donates subscriptions to its software to some universities and colleges through its software for students program . the purpose of the program is to aid instructors in teaching real world estimating billing scheduling project collaboration productivity techniques and project management skills to their students . 18 19 references edit iowa city software developer to hire 24 . the gazette . february 25 2011 . retrieved february 10 2014 . gigi wood april 4 2011 . software company has international ties . corridor of business . retrieved february 10 2014 . erin core october 1 2003 . management tools for efficiency business management software which some say is as critical as printing equipment is available for print shops of any size . . graphic arts monthly . retrieved february 10 2014 . metacommunications crunchbase . www.crunchbase.com . retrieved 2016 01 04 . iowa city s metacommunications raises 8m in investment . des moines register . retrieved 2016 01 04 . iowa city aims to attract the right businesses downtown the gazette . the gazette . retrieved 2015 12 14 . metacommunications fills former nori space downtown . iowa city press citizen . retrieved 2015 12 14 . metacommunications opens texas office the gazette . the gazette . retrieved 2016 03 29 . iowa city s metacommunications raises 8m in investment . des moines register . retrieved 2015 12 14 . metacommunications closes 8 million in series a led by next level ventures silicon prairie news . silicon prairie news . retrieved 2015 12 14 . iowa city s metacommunications raises 8m in investment . iowa city press citizen . retrieved 2015 12 14 . 2014 recipients . www.mustseeems.com . retrieved 2015 12 14 . metacommunications rolls out manager software printweek . www.printweek.com . retrieved 2015 12 14 . virtual ticket 6 gains new jdf framework . macworld . retrieved 2015 12 14 . expo metacommunications offers digital storage manager . macworld . retrieved 2015 12 14 . job manager now integrates with myob intuit software . macworld . retrieved 2015 12 14 . proofme . betalist . retrieved 2015 12 14 . metacommunications offers free classroom software to educators . industry news printing news highbeam research . www.highbeam.com . retrieved 2015 12 14 . company giving out free software . iowa city press citizen . retrieved 2015 12 14 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title metacommunications & oldid 712537286 categories project management softwaresoftware companies based in iowasoftware companies established in 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