Common Need, Inc.

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, United States of America – November 3, 2009 – CommonNeed provider of the plugjam Platform will introduce the FREE Edition of the only platform-as-a-service offering for Education at EDUCAUSE 2009, November 3-6, in the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. "We developed plugjam to give developers, instructors, and administrators a secure and powerful means to deliver applications they need and free the data from learning management systems, student information systems, and enterprise resource systems. Users are able to access open APIs which expose data, based upon institutional governance, so they can build dashboards, ePortfolios, personal learning environments or any other type of application or Web 2.0 mashup they can envision," said Dr. Glen A. Reece, CEO of CommonNeed.

plugjam, The Open Platform for Education, provides the glue and plumbing that developers need to construct applications in any programming language they choose. Developers are then able to focus their ingenuity on developing web applications, widgets, gadgets, desktop applications, mobile applications, etc. and not the complex underpinnings which plugjam takes care of for them. Additionally, plugjam provides sophisticated business intelligence and artificial intelligence capabilities to help institutions better leverage their IT investments and give users the ability to create their own applications in a self-service fashion.

CommonNeed can be found at Booth #1028 at EDUCAUSE 2009 where attendees can experience first hand the possibilities which plugjam now makes available.

About Common Need, Inc.

CommonNeed (commonneed.com) develops and markets mission-critical enterprise integration and mashup software that enable the creation of custom learning environments. Our flagship product is the plugjam^® Platform. CommonNeed's clients include college, universities, schools, as well as other organizations looking to deliver education content. Founded in 2006, CommonNeed is focused on improving the ways people leverage technology to learn and providing developers with indispensable innovation so they too can advance the state-of-the art of learning. Common Need is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

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