Mathsoft Announces Mathcad Application Server

IMMEDIATE… NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT 22nd July 2003 Editorial Contacts: Anna French, 01462 480055 Neil Chapman, 01462 480055

MATHSOFT ANNOUNCES MATHCAD APPLICATION SERVER

Web based system provides rapid, easy communication of calculations and technical content throughout the enterprise

Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc., the provider of engineering calculation and Calculation Management software to industry and higher education, announce Mathcad Application Server, a server-based method for communicating Mathcad content within and outside technical organisations.

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

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The benefits of a web-based repository for calculations are:

 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 & Education, Inc. 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 Group. “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.”

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Mathcad

With more than 1.5 million users worldwide, Mathcad is the industry-standard applied calculation solution for technical professionals and the technical academic community. Available in single-user and Enterprise editions, Mathcad provides high-powered calculation and documentation capabilities as well as functionality for centralised management of the essential calculations that drive engineering enterprises. Mathcad Enterprise provides calculation management support that, for the first time, makes its possible to

Continued… Mathcad Application Server Page 3 of 4 22nd July 2003 systematically capture, share and manage maths-based information throughout the entire organisation. Mathcad Enterprise integrates with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, enabling engineering organisations to manage calculations—such as maths procedures and critical design parameters—through centralised repository capabilities. Through these features, Mathcad enables organisations for the first time to harness the power of engineering calculations through knowledge capture and reuse.

Scalability and Performance

Mathsoft has designed the Mathcad Application Server to meet the increasing requirements for system scalability that its customers demand. Built on top of Windows 2000 Server, Mathcad Application Server is designed to allow organisations to scale up or scale out. Mathcad Application Server also offers IT managers and administrators full control over security and access because it is built on top of Internet Information Services (IIS).

Pricing & Availability

Mathcad Application Server will be available from July 2003 from Adept Scientific in the UK. Licensing is based on a per processor basis, starting at £9,200 per processor. An annual service plan is included to provide priority support for up to two designated IT contacts, and includes interim software updates, service releases and major upgrades. Further details on the application server, including working examples of the server in action, can be found at www.adeptscience.co.uk/products/mathsim/mas/.

About Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc.

Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc. is the only provider of calculation solutions that drive best

practices for engineers and engineering organisations. Mathsoft recognises that calculations drive engineering processes and, with Mathcad, offers the one software solution that allows organisations to capture engineering analyses as well as the thought processes and information behind them. With Mathsoft’s calculation management solutions, engineering-intensive organisations can achieve improved efficiency, greater productivity and reduced risk as they gain increased visibility into their design and development processes and continuous verification and validation of key calculations. Mathcad, with its patented self-documenting, live- maths interface, is the internationally recognised standard for technical calculation and applying mathematics.

Mathcad is deployed at 90% of the Fortune 1000 companies, over 500 government installations, and more than 2,000 colleges and universities. Based in Cambridge, Mass., Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc. has additional offices in the UK and Japan and distributors in over 50 countries. The company can be found on the Web at www.mathsoft.com.

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About Adept Scientific

The Mathsoft Application Server is supplied and supported in the UK and Ireland by Adept Scientific plc, Amor Way, Letchworth, Herts. SG6 1ZA; telephone (01462) 480055, fax (01462) 480213, email [email protected]; or see Adept’s World Wide Web site http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/. Adept Scientific is one of the world’s leading suppliers of software and hardware products for research, scientific, engineering and technical applications on desktop computers.

Mathsoft is a trademark and Mathcad is a registered trademark of Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark, and SharePoint is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other product or company names or marks listed may be registered trademarks, trademarks or trade names of their respective owners.

This press release is also available for download in electronic format at http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/pressroom

Please forward Reader Enquiries to: Julie Ager, Adept Scientific plc Amor Way, Letchworth, Herts. SG6 1ZA Tel: 01462 480055 Fax: 01462 480213 Email: [email protected]

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