Since we last reviewed it, two and a half years ago, the world's most widely used graphical equation editor [Mathtype 6.6] has seen several updates and incremental service releases. From the full digit version 6 at that time, we are now (as I write this) at the recently released 6.6a.
...to get information about the process. Before (QIS), we depended on a spreadsheet and it was hard to see trends. Now we have timely access to all our data with the analytics we know exactly where we are and can take actions to make the best beer."
Mike Domenighini, Quality Assurance ...
... Maple interfaces directly to MapleSim. Maple’s symbolic functionality gives insight into the physics of the phenomena I'm investigating.”
Bob Beasant, Kelvatek
Maple has good tools for data mining and modelling, and is also strong on simulations, with a collection of built-in algorithms that can be used for analysis and visualisation.
EndNote goes from strength to strength, its development over recent releases consistent, restrained, and impressive. In this release, attention has once again focussed on increasing sophistication of the information management aspects concentrated in the left hand pane. In my own mind I categorise the changes in this release as organisational, ...
Computer algebra systems are widely applied to the modelling of engineering (and many other) systems. In fact, most of the Maple worksheets which come my way are real-world models of one kind or another. A realistic physical model, however, takes a lot of work and a lot of attention to ...
Things are moving fast at MapleSoft, these days. Since review of release 11, two years ago, there have been two major upgrades to Maple accompanied by versions 1 and 2 of the new MapleSim (of which more separately, although Maple power underpins them).
Knovel's technical reference information service, available since September through Adept Scientific, is an online catalogued library system aimed at engineers and applied scientists.
There are several ways in which a data analysis package can win the hearts of statisticians. One, of course, is to provide tools that aid the particular field in which the user is interested; another is to contain and manage information in a flexible database manner rather than forcing it ...
With X2 (version 12), Endnote continues the process (followed, in previous reviews here, from release X) of carefully managed transition from bibliographic database manager to wider research information tool.
In this release, search facilities that have been developing separately for quite a while are brought together under one convenient foreground interface. ...
This release of Maple continues the process, evident for several generations now, of developing intuitive usability as well as power. The ride has settled down somewhat, after the initial fireworks, but is no less impressive for that.
The graphical document user interface continues to flower and enrich, blending productive tricks with ...
SAINT goes back a long way, in modern computing terms. Developed more than a quarter century ago for USAF human factors study, it was FORTRAN based and ran on mainframes. Micro SAINT, designed to run on the IBM personal computers of the 1980s, marked a major step forward in flexibility ...
When a product is the most widely used in its market segment, and has developed every aspect of its original brief, where does it go next? The usual answer is that it should, in one of several ways, expand the brief: but exactly how that is done can be problematic. ...
Design Science’s MathType has long been the de facto standard for graphical equation editors, its various incarnations having provided not only the free standing application, but also the basis for cut down and rebadged OLE modules in numerous other applications. It has always been possible to upgrade the bundled add-in ...
I know of no other mathematical software that more closely approaches the feel of working on a blackboard, or the back of an envelope, than Mathcad. Maths for a wide range of applied purposes can be ‘scribbled’ down, played with, manipulated, until the desired results are reached, tidied up, arranged ...
Core function features are vital, but not exclusively so. With an eye on the future Maple has, for some time, been radically developing its interface and this continues in release 11: what used to be one of the less friendly computer algebra environments is becoming, in many ways, one of ...
There are a number of mature solutions which, in different ways, address the need of scientists for referencing management, and development tends now to focus on polishing of usability, and on value added. One of EndNote’s most useful features, enhancing its integration into larger mix’n’match research information management (RIM) régimes, ...
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