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News Release from: Adept Scientific | Subject: Mathcad 11
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 January 2003
Technical software is made for sharing
The latest release of Mathcad enables everyone to work together more straightforwardly.
With so many companies and departments now having large numbers of Mathcad users, the latest release (Mathcad 11) takes the next logical step and enables everyone to work together more straightforwardly And there are plenty of serious enhancements for individual users too
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Nov 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Mathcad 11 is the latest version of the industry-standard solution for applying mathematics to engineering, science and other technical operations.
Individual engineers and engineering departments are using Mathcad in many of the most well known companies in the world, and over the years, its use has been increasing throughout the scientific, research and even financial sectors too.
Although there has been extensive conventional marketing of the software, it has equally been the enthusiasm of existing users which has resulted in Mathcad becoming possibly the most widely used specialist technical software in the world.
Many of these users have been successful in ensuring department-wide or even company-wide adoption of Mathcad, giving everyone a complete technical documentation and calculation environment on their PC.
Consequently, many of the developments in recent releases of Mathcad have been aimed at networking, corporate publishing and other specific requirements from users thinking more on a department-wide basis.
Mathcad 11 takes some of the biggest steps ever in meeting 'enterprise-wide' demands.
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For the many existing users formulating a case for the product to be made available on every desktop, it's just what they've been waiting for.
The result of the developers' work in meeting departmental-wide and company-wide requirements is Mathcad Enterprise, a platform which integrates with Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server, enabling organisations to manage calculations through new, centralised repository capabilities.
Through other new features, including networked accessibility, check-in/check-out, version management and access control, multiple users now receive new capabilities for finding, updating, approving and reusing Mathcad calculations and designs.
Mathcad has traditionally featured extensive publishing capabilities thanks to its self-documenting nature.
With Mathcad Enterprise, there are web-publishing capabilities that allow enterprise users to deploy Mathcad worksheets to non-Mathcad users, and interact with computations via a Web browser - without additional plug-ins.
New authoring capabilities also allow users to define user-inputs in preparation of publishing Mathcad worksheets for Web server posting.
The developers have also added new capabilities for converting Mathcad documents to the familiar RTF format, as another alternative to communicating and sharing documents.
Mathcad 11 features new mathematical functions and improved data handling capabilities, and there's enhanced equation, text and region editing and better access to program features.
Many of the key resources in Mathcad have been streamlined to make navigation faster and easier.
Interface enhancements, including new menu picks, technical resources and documentation, are aimed at making the system even more intuitive.
Mathcad 11 also features a newly reorganised user's guide and resource centre, to make navigation almost effortless and create even easier searches for Mathcad resources and references.
Mathcad 11 now features bidirectional HTML/MathML support that does not require customers or colleagues to have a special browser plug-in, making the sharing of technical documents on the web or corporate intranet even easier.
Users also receive more web formatting options through an HTML output layout that delivers customised web pages with headers/footers, navigation links and images - a process made even easier through a new web wizard for step-by-step guidance on publishing Mathcad documents online.
New conversion features enable users to save their work in a variety of Mathcad formats (Mathcad 6, 7, 8, 2000, 2001 and 2001i), so they can share their work with colleagues, regardless of their current version of the software, and also access legacy files from earlier Mathcad designs.
All in all, it's another major step forward for the world's leading mathematics and technical documentation software. Request a free brochure from Adept Scientific ...
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