In addition to Microsoft® BackOffice® products, the following technologies were also used to develop the Fitch & Mather Corporate Media Library (CML) application:
The Microsoft Exchange Server Event Service components of Microsoft Exchange Server were used to control the critique-approval process in the combined CML/LitCrit application.
This application blurs the line between development and configuration. This occurs in part because the functionality of some new technologies is accessible through the user interface of products typically used by non-programmers. For example, though some may consider Microsoft Outlook® to be an off-the-shelf front end to the messaging and collaboration abilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Outlook also lets you program forms, which is illustrated thoroughly in the CML/LitCrit scenario.
Less surprising perhaps are the ways in which security considerations relate to the application's functionality. Microsoft Exchange Server administrators, using the Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator program, control the ability to delete forms in the LitCrit public folder or even the public folder itself. This ability or lack of it must in turn be anticipated in the business logic of the application.