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27 October, 2008

Latest major product news and training information.

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New MSC SimOffice version 2.1

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SimOffice 2.1 continues the revolution in bringing design-analysis productivity and capability to those that need it on the desktop. The team at MSC, while targeting non-CAE experts, has improved the CAE analysis environment by delivering more modeling and simulation capabilities to SimOffice users. details>>

SimOffice is developed and supported by MSC Software Corporation. A leading global provider of integrated enterprise simulation solutions that enable radical improvement in the time and costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products.

MSC Software supports thousands of companies in hundreds of industries, integrating information, technology, software, services, and systems to enable faster and more efficient development of market-leading products. Headquartered in Santa Ana, California, MSC Software employs more than 1200 people in 23 countries.

New ProModel Software

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ProModel is discrete event simulation software, used for evaluating, planning or designing manufacturing, warehousing, logistics and other operational and strategic situations.

All of the specialised solutions from ProModel are driven by its VAO Technology that enables clients to Visualise, Analyse and Optimise, which leads to better decisions and realised performance and process optimisation objectives.

GE is a global leader in applying the ProModel technology to their most complex manufacturing, logistics and business challenges. Specific applications and benefits are confidential. "ProModel has accelerated the time it takes us to create a critical mass of support for changes to complicated businesses. This single fact has provided MILLIONS of dollars in bottom line benefits." - Peter Kalish, GE Corporate R&D.

ProModel Software>>

New Spreadsheet Modelling and Analysis Software and Training

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Spreadsheet Modelling and Analysis tools have been used in many organisations to achieve among others, maximised profit, effectiveness and throughput as well as minimised cost, risk and defect. Success stories resulting in millions of dollars in savings are not uncommon and are found in numerous areas including defence, manufacturing, government, logistics, finance and marketing.

Hearne now offers a range of products and training for business and process modelling.

Crystal Ball: Transform your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to get a credible picture of risk, create accurate predictive models, search for the best solution and maximise appreciation of the risks that you are facing. From Monte Carlo simulation to forecasting, optimisation and real options analysis, Crystal Ball software tools deliver. More info>>

LINDO API: LINDO's linear, nonlinear and integer programming solvers have been used by thousands of companies worldwide to maximise profit and minimise cost on decisions involving production planning, transportation, finance, portfolio allocation, capital budgeting, blending, scheduling, inventory, resource allocation and more. More info>>

LINGO: a comprehensive tool designed to make building and solving linear, nonlinear and integer optimisation models faster, easier and more efficient. More info>>

Premium Solver: an advanced version of the Solver found in Microsoft Excel. Premium Solver includes a more powerful optimisation engine, faster calculations, and new reporting features - all integrated seamlessly into Microsoft Excel. The fast problem setup feature means problems can be defined up to 50 times faster. More info>>

What's Best!: is an add-in to Excel that allows you to build large scale optimisation models in a free form layout within a spreadsheet. More info>>

Training in the use of these products is available on demand and can be customised to your needs. Details>>

AccuRate predictions compared with monitored data

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In order to validate the heating and cooling energy requirements predicted by AccuRate, a comparison was made with detailed monitoring of heating and cooling energy data for 6 suburban Adelaide houses over 2 years.

This study was conducted at the Sustainable Energy Centre, University of South Australia, by Professor Wasim Saman, Associate Professor Monica Oliphant, Mr. Lachlan Mudge and Dr. Edward Halawa. View this report>>

AccuRate is the fully featured software package developed by CSIRO for rating the energy efficiency of residential building designs. AccuRate is the software foundation the Australian and New Zealand House Energy Rating Scheme's are built on.

Mathcad and Economic Debate

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Associate Professor Steve Keen at the University of Western Sydney has made a major impact on economic debate in recent years. All of his work has been done using Mathcad. More info>>

With engineering teams using Mathcad as the centerpiece of a Calculation Management solution, organisations can easily capture, manage, share and profit from valuable engineering information. Mathcad features an easy-to-use white board interface, instant recalculation whenever you change a variable, and an open architecture supporting .NET and native XML format. By integrating text, formulas and graphs in a single worksheet, you can easily visualise, illustrate and annotate calculation work. Your entire solution is contained and documented in one place.

New SigmaPlot version 11

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SigmaPlot Version 11 now offers a full range of easy-to-use statistical functions in addition to graphing templates and utilities with improved features for accurate and fast data analysis for non-statisticians.

Unlike other analysis and graphing packages, spreadsheets or other business graphing products, SigmaPlot 11 offers complete advisory statistical analysis features along with a full range of graphing templates and utilities for unmatched data accuracy, speed, data analysis and presentation. SigmaPlot is well known for its flexibility to customise any object on a graph to meet the exacting requirements of the scientific community. Details>>

New Crystal Ball version 11.1.1

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The new Oracle Crystal Ball is a major new release for one of the world's most popular Excel add-ins for Risk Analysis, Forecasting and Spreadsheet Optimisation.

With Crystal Ball you can transform your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to get a credible picture of risk, create accurate predictive models, search for the best solution and maximise appreciation of the risks that you are facing. From Monte Carlo simulation to forecasting, optimisation and real options analysis, Crystal Ball software tools deliver. Details>>

Mathematica in New Zealand

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Hearne Scientific Software is now the exclusive distributor for Wolfram Research in New Zealand. Wolfram Research is one of the leading technical software companies in providing the industry with comprehensive mathematical and scientific software.

Wolfram's flagship product, Mathematica, has been a long-proven success with its innovation and reliability. With Mathematica as their base, Wolfram's products allow teachers, scientists and engineers to be capable of simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive-document preparation.

All Mathematica software licensing, including upgrades, maintenance renewals, academic licensing and training are handled by Hearne Scientific Software directly in New Zealand.

New Analyse-it Software

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Hearne Scientific Software is now the exclusive distributor for Analyse-it Software in Australia and New Zealand. Analyse-it is now used by well over 15,000 users all over the world, and is used in businesses ranging from pharmaceutical and diagnostics, to educational, environmental, geological, medical & life scicences.

Analyse-it is a powerful and accurate statistical analysis and charting add-in software for Microsoft Excel.

All Analyse-it software licensing, including upgrades, maintenance renewals, academic licensing and training are handled by Hearne Scientific Software in Australia and New Zealand.

Australian Intel Software Seminars

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James Reinders from Intel USA will be in Australia in early December to talk about multi-core programming and the future of High Performance Computing.

James Reinders is leading the development efforts for performance optimising software tools including compilers, libraries, and threading analysis products. In 1989, Reinders joined Intel Corporation as a senior engineer and has contributed to projects including the world's first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red), compilers, and architecture work for a number of Intel processors and parallel systems. Reinders is the author of the latest O’Reilly Nutshell book “Intel Threading Building Blocks," a monthly columnist for the "The Gauntlet," found online at go-parallel.com, and the author of the book "VTune Performance Analyzer Essentials."

Australian Intel Seminars>>

New Intel VTune Performance Analyzer Version 9.1

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Intel VTune Performance Analyzer makes application performance tuning easier with a graphical user interface and no recompiles required. It is compiler and language independent so it works with C, C++, Fortran, C#, Java, .NET and more. Unlike some products that offer only call graph analysis or only a limited set of sampling events, VTune analyzer offers both with an extensive set of tuning events for all the latest Intel processors.

Version 9.1 was released in late September. The update includes support for Scripted Languages - JavaScript, ActionScript with Sampling (including Source View) and Call Graph - as result from work with Adobe and Mozilla. Details>>

Your Software Licensing Options

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As a user of one of the programs which we distribute, you may want to consider or reconsider the case for moving to a site licence arrangement.

For some programs, e.g., SYSTAT, it is possible to purchase a one user floating licence. This means that anyone in the organisation can use the program, but only one user at a time can use it. Multi-user floating licences are common. For many clients of ours, this is a very cost effective arrangement, particularly, where there are a few regular users and various people who use the program only occasionally.

It is also possible to negotiate a site licence for the entire organisation at a very low cost per user. We have been organising site licences that optimise usage and cost for many organisations, from large multi-national corporations to small enterprises, for over 20 years.

At the university level, we have arranged for thousands of students and staff at department, faculty or university level to have access to site licences for various programs.

Site Licence Benefits

  • Much cheaper per head 
  • Simplified purchasing and administration 
  • Improved software asset management 
  • Ensures all users have the latest version 
  • Qualify for free technical support, updates and upgrades for the term of the licence.

You can build an outline of the details of the site licence you might have in mind on our web site, at www.hearne.com.au/licence and we will give you a cost based on your figures, or, if required we can give you a range of costs for different site licence configurations.

Hearne Charity Program

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Hearne believes that businesses have a responsibility to contribute directly to charities and to the protection of the environment in order to benefit the wider community. To fulfill this obligation, Hearne has established a program for donating regularly to charities and environmental groups.

Purchasers using the Hearne online ordering facility are invited to nominate a charity or environmental group to which Hearne will donate $10. In this way Hearne contributes to the wider community every day.

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