BETA CAE Systems S.A. announces the release of SPDRM v1.1.0. This version brings SPDRM closer to a wider group of users with the support of new platforms and databases. Additionally, it introduces several new features, that tie together existing functionality of the Data, Process and Resources Management workspaces, and improves the user experience with the software. The most noticeable software enhancements are listed below.
Enhancements
Process Management
Usability of the process execution and process design workspaces has been improved with the introduction of new toolbars and new icons for different types of process nodes. Additionally, to let the user focus only on what’s important, it is now possible to automatically delete the temporary data created during the execution of processes together with the process instances from the user’s process execution panel, as soon as the process are completed.
Data Management
Enforcing its close relation with CAE, SPDRM introduces the Simulation Model as a new type of data item:
A CAE simulation model is the collection of include files of particular versions, that are used for the compilation of the solver main files. A CAE simulation model can be used as a template for the creation of other CAE simulation models.
In an analogous manner, a Simulation Model in SPDRM is a data item that contains one or more components and can have a reference to another Simulation Model, that was used as a source for its creation.
In this version, a systematic attempt is made for the eloquent communication of all meta-data of the data items to the users. The Data Manager acquires a new, tabbed interface, where all information related to the data item of interest is displayed in an organized manner: History graph for components and simulation models, dependencies, tree-structure and updates are only some of the new data views, offered in the Data Manager.
Resources Management
This version introduces role-based access control: A user who is assigned more than one roles in the system, granting different access rights each, can specify according to which role he desires to acquire permissions during log-in. This way, a user can be both an “administrator” and an “analyst”, without the need to operate with full permissions all the time.
To facilitate the administrative tasks, the definition of registered applications has been enhanced in order to account for default options, environmental variables and wrapper programs that might be needed every time an application is launched. In the same philosophy comes the new, parametric definition of mime-types based on registered applications, which drastically reduces the maintenance effort.
Scripting
Two new modules have been introduced, for the management of users (um module) and scripts (script module).
Miscellaneous
From this version onwards, the SPDRM Application Server is also available for Microsoft Windows. Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been added in the list of supported platforms, for both the Application Server and the Client.
For the installation of the SPDRM Data Server, Oracle Database has been added in the list of supported and certified databases.
Usability enhancements include a new, efficient and user-friendly file manager with history, auto-completion and embedded filtering capabilities. Additionally, SPDRM client GUI settings are automatically saved, allowing the direct continuation of work from where the user left it before log-out.
