For more than 20 years
Adept Scientific has been helping customers collect, analyse, simulate,
organise and present data to deliver information and knowledge.
Over half a million people in research, design, development and education
gain competitive advantage, improve productivity, and increase reliability
and efficiency using our products and services.
Why do customers keep choosing Adept Scientific? Because we listen. We
work with them to identify, implement and support the best solution to
meet their long-term goals, objectives and needs. Adept Scientific - experience
you can rely on.
We are proud of our reputation
as one of the world’s most efficient and technically able suppliers
in our field. We have achieved and maintain this reputation by a strategy
of technical expertise, the provision of enterprise solutions, an ethical
business model, a highly efficient and responsive approach to customer
service and state-of-the-art Web-based information and e-commerce systems.
We have invested substantial
amounts to provide an award-winning infrastructure
to support your work, and our levels of support and service are, we believe,
the best you will find. Adept Scientific is an ISO9001:2008
accredited company and an Investor
in People. Our efforts were further recognised when we reached the
South East regional finals of the prestigious National Business Awards
2004 in two categories: Outstanding People Development and Best Use of
Technology.
We enjoy building on our success,
and we are dedicated to providing the best products, the best customer
service and the best technical solutions in the world, in line with our
mission to be the world's best multi-source supplier of hardware and software
for technical computing applications.
With offices in the UK, Germany,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United States, and a dedicated
team of professionals, we are well placed to meet your needs. To contact
us, click here.
“I am over the moon
with the support I have received from you at Adept. I was not expecting
this - and it has saved me a great deal of time.”
Dr. A.G., Cambridge |
Adept on the Web
Adept Scientific has had a significant World Wide Web presence since 1995.
www.adeptscience.com
now attracts an average of 840,000 page impressions per month, and is a
leading portal for engineers, scientists and technical users across the
world seeking information and content related to our extensive portfolio
of technical computing products. Technical
support is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year via our online
KnowledgeBase; and there
are plentiful free downloads of software patches and updates, demo versions,
content files and literature at our popular Download
Centre.
The site also has gateways to active email
discussion lists for some of our most popular products; accessed via
lists.adeptscience.com, these provide a forum for users world-wide to
discuss issues and address problems.
We also have German, Danish,
Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish versions of our website and webstore.
Our webstore, www.adeptstore.com,
provides up-to-date pricing information and a secure ordering service.
To get the most out of our website,
so that it's easier to download all the demos, patches and information
you need, and get quotations, print personalised order forms, make online
purchases and register your software, we recommend you join My
Adept. Another benefit of registering is that you can subscribe to
our free monthly email newsletter.
What to know more about life
at Adept Scientific? Well now you can, click
here to read the Adept Scientific Blog.
“I ordered Endnote
at your webstore yesterday morning and I received the program a couple
of minutes ago. I am very impressed by your service.”
Dr. S.K., Düsseldorf |
Technical and Customer Support
Our customers are skilled professionals, and our technical support team
is made up of highly qualified engineers, scientists, mathematicians and
IT experts who are capable of comprehending your needs and solving your
problems. We have the expertise to understand your application and the commitment
to make sure we give you prompt, courteous and efficient service, from your
initial information request to whatever technical support you may need after
you buy one of our products. We place customer
service at the very top of our list of priorities, and we have invested
heavily both in technology and in training our people to provide you with
the service you expect. We aim to answer all telephone calls within four
rings - and by a human being, not an auto-attendant, so you won’t
have to navigate through endless menus. Email enquiries are responded
to typically within 24 hours.
Our sophisticated database system
enables us to access a complete history of your dealings with us in seconds,
so we can handle your enquiry faster and more efficiently. We respect
your privacy too: we never pass your
details to anyone else.
We provide a wide range of multi-user
and enterprise-wide solutions as well as single- user boxed products,
and we are always pleased to explain the options available. We believe
a customer is for life, and we aim to maintain a relationship and adapt
our service to meet your developing needs.
Training,
Seminars, Consultancy
We run regular Training
Courses for some of our most popular products in the UK, Germany and
Denmark. They are designed to provide practical, hands-on experience to
bring users up to speed quickly, show you how to get the most out of the
software and maximise the productivity benefits to be had from your investment.
Training can also be arranged at your site.
We also hold Seminars
to introduce you to the capabilities of our software products and their
application to technical problem-solving. Typically half a day in length
and free of charge, these provide a structured and effective way of assessing
which software and hardware tools best suit your particular needs, and
the opportunity to question our technical product specialists and discuss
your specific application. We also host online, Web-based seminars which
you can participate in from your own desk.
We offer Consultancy
Services too, giving customers the opportunity to buy some our technical
experts’ time to help them get up and running faster. We can help,
for example, with installation and configuration, customisation, integration
within existing systems and practices, product training and more.
Our
suppliers
We constantly seek to supply and support the best software and hardware
products in their class, products we believe in, products that we are
confident offer our customers value for money and an excellent return
on their investment. Our suppliers are well established developers offering
leading edge technologies, and innovative and robust products. We choose
suppliers with whom we can maintain a cordial and productive working relationship,
and whose goals, business practices and concern for customers match our
own.
Application
Areas
- Engineering Design
- Applied Mathematics
- Civil & Structural Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical & Electronics Engineering
- Electronic Circuit Design
- Product Development
- Scientific Research
- Data Acquisition
- Test & Measurement
- Data Visualisation & Analysis
- Scientific & Technical Imaging
- System Simulation
- Statistical Quality & Process Control
- Business Compliance Management
- Chemical & Biological Data Handling
- Spectroscopy Data Handling
- Bibliographic Reference Management & Writing Tools
- Technical Documentation
“I just wanted to thank
you for all the help that you provided. It was great to be able to
get ‘online’ advice so to speak. I now have the problem
sorted and am just waiting to plug all the inputs into [my data acquisition
system] so that I can see if all the calculations work!”
D.N., Bristol |
Our Customers
Adept customers are found in universities, colleges, academies and technical
schools; in government and local authority establishments, research institutes,
hospitals and health organisations; and in industrial and commercial R&D,
design, production and test facilities. Individual users of our products
can be described as anyone using personal computers in a scientific, engineering,
research or technical application; they range from engineers and designers
developing innovative new products or processes to researchers conducting
experiments in all branches of physical and life sciences.
Our customer base includes most major universities
and research labs in the countries where we operate, and leading corporations
involved in mechanical, electrical or structural engineering design, or
in scientific, chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical product development.
Our
Product Range
- Mathematical
and Simulation Products – software products primarily
aimed at design, process, mechanical, civil/structural and electrical/electronics
engineers and at the education sector. These include worldwide market-leaders
such as Maple, the world's most
advanced software for analytical computation and integrated symbolic
and numeric mathematics; Mathcad
technical calculation software for developing and communicating technical
ideas and projects; MathType,
the full-featured equation editor; MapleSim,
the high-performance multi-domain modeling and simulation tool; the
VisSim range of software for
dynamic system modelling, simulation and rapid prototyping; the Micro
Saint Sharp discrete event simulator; and BlockBuilder
for Simulink, a Maplesoft application that lets you develop mathematical
models using Maple technology and implement them in Simulink (there
are also Maple tools that integrate maple with MATLAB).
- Data
Analysis Products – software for a wide range of data
analysis,and graphing applications. Products include FlexPro,
a powerful platform for data presentation and analysis; EasyPlot
for scientific plotting and data analysis; and DADiSP
the “graphical spreadsheet” software.
- Data
Acquisition Products – hardware and software products
aimed at engineers and product developers who need to use PCs to record,
monitor and analyse data from measuring instruments and sensors. Our
hardware offerings include a very comprehensive range of data acquisition
products from Measurement
Computing, IOtech
and UEI among other
manufacturers. We also supply a broad range of software and programming
tools for application development, set-up and data collection, including
DASYLab,
Measurement
Studio, DAS-Wizard
and SoftwareWedge.
- Utilities
- Knovel is an interactive
online reference resource designed to enable applied scientists and
practising engineers around the world to quickly locate relevant and
reliable technical information.
Fun Stuff
Below is a selection of online seasonal greeting cards, a pictorial history
of Adept Scientific and a few pictures of the fun days we have. We hope
you enjoy them all!
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The Wonder Years
Click on the Adept logo to watch a pictorial (and highly selective)
history of Adept Scientific. We hope you enjoy it! The Adept Wonder
Years uses Macromedia
shockwave player. |
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Snow'PAUL Fight 3: The
Revenge
Click here to play our latest thrilling online game, new for the 2003
festive season! You can choose from one or two players and you win
by hitting your opponent 10 times with snowballs. Snow'PAUL Fight
3 uses Macromedia
flash player. |
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Snow'PAUL Fight 2: The
Wrath of Bragg
Click here to play our exciting 2002 online seasonal game. The aim
is to hit Paul Bragg (our MD) as many times as possible. There are
hidden objects to give you unlimited ammo and a higher score. Snow'PAUL
Fight 2 uses Macromedia
flash player. |
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Snow'PAUL Fight
Click here to play our first online game, from December 2001. You
have 100 snowballs or 4 lives to hit Paul Bragg (our MD) as many times
as possible. Snow'PAUL Fight uses Macromedia
flash player. |
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Snow Shaker
Click here to view our interactive online season's greetings card
for 2000. Point your cursor at the snow shaker and watch our Letchworth
headquarters building slowly get covered with snow. Snow Shaker
uses Macromedia
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You'll always find us helpful
and normal-sounding when you call, though sometimes it's better that you
don't actually see us, like on our recent Comic
Relief dressing-up day. But we don't always look like that ...
... at our annual Christmas
Party, we tend to look like this!
To
conclude...
We're often looking for people who have something special to offer to
join our team. Here's a summary of what
life at Adept is like – and what
positions we're currently recruiting for.
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