Key people Robert Long, CEO Headquarters Iowa City | Website Official website Founded 1991 | |
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Industry Management and workflow software Products Workgroups DaVinci software | ||
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.
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History
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. 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. In 2011, current CEO Robert Long led an employee buyout of the company.
In 2014, the company moved its headquarters to a new 14-story building in Iowa City known as Park@201. In 2015, the company opened a second downtown space to house the engineering team working on a new B2C product. In 2016, Meta opened a new sales office in Austin, Texas.
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. The investment is the largest to date for Next Level Ventures. 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.
Workgroups DaVinci
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.
Approval Manager
Approval Manager is an online proofing and approval workflow application that "is designed to streamline and simplify the client approval process of digital proofs."
Virtual Ticket
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.
Digital Storage Manager
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.
Job Manager
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."
ProofMe
MetaCommunications’ newest product, ProofMe, is a video, image, text and web content review and approval tool for creatives.
Software for Students
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."