Advanced Visual Systems ships AVS/Express Version 3.1.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1997-- New Release Includes Web, Developer, and End-User Enhancements Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside ) today announced a new release of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , AVS/Express Version 3.1, the industry's leading software for applying 3D visualization and imaging techniques to complex data and applications. This product is now shipping to the AVS/Express installed base and to new users. Version 3.1 includes new Web-enabling features as well as enhancements to both AVS/Express Developer Edition and AVS/Express Visualization Edition for end users. "AVS/Express 3.1 represents a significant leap forward for data visualization See information visualization. ," said Harry Cochran, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Advanced Visual Systems Inc. "We are especially pleased with this release because it contains many new features and enhancements requested by our growing installed base. It solidifies our leadership position in high-end data visualization for the software development community and end users, including visualizing data over the Internet and Intranet," added Cochran. Mike Brown, a Senior Software Scientist at Computer Modelling Group (CMG CMG Coastal & Marine Geology (USGS) CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (stock symbol) CMG Companion (of the Order Of) St Michael and St George CMG Computer Measurement Group ) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has used AVS/Express for about three years to develop software for use by customers to aid in the management of oil reservoirs. AVS/Express 3.1 has added features that directly benefit CMGs customers. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Brown, "One of the new features that I like in AVS/Express 3.1 is the enhanced printing support. AVS/Express 3.1 lets you output PostScript at device-independent resolution, as opposed to simply printing screen resolution images. This provides faster, higher-quality output at virtually any size the user desires." AVS/Express is a multi-platform (UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Windows 95 and NT, and Internet/Intranet), component-based software environment for visualizing complex data and for building applications with interactive visualization Interactive visualization is a branch of graphic visualization in computer science that studies how humans interact with computers to create graphic illustrations of information and how this process can be made more efficient. and graphics functions. It provides Kits that contain numerous reusable components for data visualization, image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished , graphics display, web interaction, database connectivity and user interface construction. It uses an object-oriented visual programming interface to connect these components to generate interactive 3D visualizations, as well as 2D plots and graphs. Version 3.1 Loaded with New Features AVS/Express 3.1 adds several key new capabilities, including features that allow developers and end users to easily generate visualizations for the world wide web. Printing has been enhanced to allow users to output PostScript at device-independent resolution, providing both performance and quality improvements. Stereo display support (full-screen and window-based) has been added for the Silicon Graphics and Sun platforms. Remote modules support is now provided that allows users to run compute-intensive operations on remote hosts in a network that communicates with AVS/Express on a local machine. New functionality specifically for application developers includes support for the creation of ActiveX components and improved Visual C++ integration. The AVS/Express Developer Edition has also added support in the Database Kit for Open Database Connectivity See ODBC. (standard, database) Open DataBase Connectivity - (ODBC) A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack contains drivers for the Access, Paradox, dBase, Text, Excel and Btrieve (ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. ), which complements existing native support for Oracle, Informix and Sybase relational databases. For end users, the AVS/Express Visualization Edition now includes a new tutorials document which makes the product easy to learn. U.S. Pricing and Availability AVS/Express 3.1 is available to all current customers on maintenance for no additional charge. For Windows 95 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. platforms, AVS/Express Visualization Edition pricing starts at $2,995 and for UNIX platforms, AVS/Express Visualization Edition pricing starts at $6,000. For Windows 95 and Windows NT, AVS/Express Developers Edition pricing starts at $18,000 for the first Windows-base system and $4,000 for follow-on systems, and for UNIX platforms, AVS/Express 3.1 Developers Edition is priced at $25,000 for the first system and $6,000 for follow-on systems. Contact the companys international subsidiaries and distributors for pricing and availability outside of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . About Advanced Visual Systems Advanced Visual Systems Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Mass., is the leading supplier of high-end data visualization solutions that enable organizations to transform large amounts of complex data into 2D and 3D visual information. The company's products deliver insight and competitive advantage to customers in the technical, scientific, and commercial "data mining" markets, including medical imaging, engineering, geospatial application development, oil and gas, aerospace, government research, telecommunications, and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . The company's products run on Windows 95, Windows NT, all major UNIX workstations, and are supported on the Internet/Intranet. Advanced Visual Systems distributes its products through a direct sales force in the U.S., through subsidiaries in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and through distributors in numerous other countries. KGT KGT Key Generator Transmitter KGT Klingon for the Galactic Traveller Inc. in Japan oversees sales and distribution channels for the company's products in the Pacific Rim. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Please contact Bernie Buelow at 617-890-4300, ext. 2265, or via e-mail at bbuelow@avs.com for a comprehensive list of features and enhancements made in AVS/Express Version 3.1. Numerous multi-color, three-dimensional images that demonstrate the capabilities of AVS/Express Version 3.1 are also available in a variety of formats. Contact Bernie Buelow to get images electronically or in hard copy form. AVS/Express is a registered trademark of Advanced Visual Systems Inc. All other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective manufacturers. CONTACT: Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Bernie Buelow 617/890-4300, ext. 2265 bbuelow@avs.com or Advanced Visual Systems Inc. John Methot 617-890-4300, ext. 2170 jmethot@avs.com |
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