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Industry Solutions

In today’s fast-paced world of engineering product development, companies in diverse industry sectors face many business drivers and structural constraints. For instance, in today’s fast paced world of continually accelerated product development cycles and increasing amounts of data, engineering analysis not only needs to be accurate but also timely. Engineers today no longer do product development analysis in “silos” but …

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Mathcad Prime 2.0 Nominated for Desktop Engineering’s Editor’s Pick of the Week

On Wednesday April 25th, Desktop Engineering presented the Editor’s Pick of the Week Award to Mathcad Prime 2.0. Desktop Engineering explains, “Each week, DE’s Editor at Large, Tony Lockwood, combs through dozens of new product releases and uses his years of engineering industry knowledge to choose a few products and services that he thinks will help engineers innovate by working smarter and …

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Mathcad Prime 2.0 is HERE!

I’m pleased to announce that Mathcad Prime 2.0 is now available! This release delivers a major leap forward in capabilities and performance enhancements, while further building upon the innovative user interface from Mathcad Prime 1.0. To learn more about the latest release of Mathcad, the industry standard for engineering calculations, check out the videos on the Mathcad Prime 2.0 web …

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Customer Input and Hard Work- Building Mathcad Prime 2.0, part 2

In the last post, Jakov Kucan, Mathcad’s Director of Software Development, explained the goals behind Mathcad Prime 2.0. Today I will be writing about how he believes that many of these goals wouldn’t have been accomplished, if it weren’t for loyal users, willing to give their time and feedback. After Jakov explained to me how they evaluated the needs of …

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The Spreadsheet Spooktacular: Mathcad Takes on Halloween

Here in the United States, October 31st is when we celebrate one of my favorite holidays, Halloween. What’s not to love about free candy, carving pumpkins, and goofy costumes? In this post I’m going to tell you one of the scary stories that have been circulating through the Needham office, a story so frightening, you’ll be clutching your computer keyboard …

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A Response to Wolfram’s CDF

Over on cnet news, we recently commented on Wolfram’s new Computable Document Format (CDF) and the challenge that it aims to solve.  We agree that recipients of digital documents should have a much richer experience than static text and images.  Without actually seeing the complex relationships of an engineering problem, for instance, complete absorption and understanding can be compromised.  Live, …

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Analyze Data With New Box Plots in Mathcad 15.0 and Prime 1.0

Mathcad’s New Box Plots We’ve introduced three new plot types to both Mathcad 15 and Mathcad Prime 1.0. Box plots, effects plots, and Pareto plots provide quick visualization of data. Here’s how to make a box plot. You may know box plots as box-and-whisker diagram. Box plots were first introduced by statistician John Tukey in his book, Exploratory Data Analysis, …

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Mathcad Prime 1.0 is Officially Launched!

Last week I let everyone know we were close to launching Mathcad Prime 1.0. As of yesterday, I am happy to announce that Mathcad Prime 1.0 is officially launched and available to order. The next generation of Mathcad, Mathcad Prime 1.0 delivers a new tasked-based user interface, within a document-centric calculations environment, enabling engineers to focus on developing engineering calculations …

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Mathcad Prime 1.0 – Taking Engineering Calculations to the Next Level

Since March 2010, when we hosted our first virtual user conference, we’ve been talking about the Mathcad roadmap and how we’re getting ready to launch the next generation of the product called Mathcad Prime 1.0.  Well, we’re closing in on the release day.  Here is a glimpse of what you can expect. Mathcad Prime 1.0 really was re-engineered from the …

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Mathcad Demo Series – Engineering Calculations Done Smarter

Hi folks, We’re getting ready to kick-off a series of demo videos in the next few weeks.  The intent here is to create and provide content for engineers who are generating calculations related to their specific role and industries they work in.  For instance the first of the series of videos coming out discusses using Mathcad to perform and document …

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