Web based system provides rapid, easy communication of calculations and technical content within and outside any organisation
Mathcad Application Server represents a new dimension for Mathsoft's product line.
Through the first-ever server-based Mathcad offering, organisations can offer employees and clients the option to view and interact with Mathcad-authored documents without requiring viewers to install plug-ins or client software. Mathcad Application Server brings all of Mathcad's built-in mathematical functions, including numeric and symbolic processing and 2D and 3D graphing, to the web for easy and convenient viewing.
The technical content can be accessed through client web site intranet-based knowledge centres, or simple web pages that require calculation functionality.
The Application Server makes it possible to develop easy-to-access systems for the reuse of common calculations to reduce engineering development time and calculation errors, while also enabling field engineers to retrieve technical information from anywhere.
This release extends Mathsoft's calculation-management strategy, which is designed to facilitate sharing and reuse of critical calculations in business organisations.
The benefits of a web-based repository for calculations include the following.
Content authors can quickly and easily turn their worksheets into HTML for web posting.
Content users can then simply enter their design parameters into form fields, such as text boxes, list boxes and buttons.
Inputs are sent to Mathcad Application Server via HTTP where they are processed in real time and returned to the web browsers as updated results, charts and graphs.
Chris Randles, CEO of Mathsoft Engineering and Education said: "Leading corporations are using information technology to better manage and leverage their design engineering assets.
"Mathcad Application Server is a step towards Mathsoft's vision of calculation management because it greatly expands the ways for organisations to centralise, share, reuse and update their calculations".
"Spreadsheets are dangerous things - they hide the actual calculations from their user - too often mistakes go undetected," said Carol Baroudi, CEO of Baroudi Bloor.
"The potential for serious error should unnerve any organisation that relies on mathematical calculations. "Mathcad Application Server can greatly reduce errors in tangible ways, including forcing consistency of units and by making calculations visible and reusable".
Mathsoft Application Server is supplied and supported in the UK and Ireland by Adept Scientific.
