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Preactor International, the UK's leading specialist planning and scheduling Software Company, will unveil the much
anticipated Preactor v10.0
03 July 2007
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Preactor International, the UK's leading specialist planning and scheduling Software Company, will unveil the much
anticipated Preactor v10.0 at the Softworld Supply Chain Exhibition at the
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NEC, Birmingham on 28-29th March 2007.
3 years in the making, Preactor V10 represents the greatest investment in time and resource since the product's
first release in 1993 and can be exclusively viewed at stand 206.
While the complete product has benefited from this major redevelopment, the 3 main areas of increased benefit are a
new tabbed window sequencer User Interface (UI), a new calendar editor and a new database for storage of data in MS
SQL 2005.
Mike Novels, Chairman and Managing Director, commented on this milestone in the development of what is widely
regarded as the definitive APS solution.
'v10.0 is the result of planning decisions made within Preactor over 3 years ago as we recognised the impact that
the .NET environment would have within manufacturing IT.
As our ethos has always been to provide enabling technology to allow manufacturers get the best from their IT
investment, it was important for us to develop Preactor to continue to be able to do this for those manufacturers
going in this direction'.
The new sequencer UI takes Preactor to news levels of excellence which when combined with the graphical calendar
editor provides an 'Outlook Like' UI familiar to most users.
Tool bars have been simplified but remain completely customisable with data views now being possible to place in
separate tabbed windows that can be made part of other window groups or displayed independently.
Users will also benefit from the ability to set up complex shift patterns as templates that can then be assigned
for defined periods to both primary and secondary resources.
The use of SQL 2005 as the underlying database structure opens up much greater reporting and data analysis
possibilities whilst retaining all the flexibility and functionality of the Preactor data tables, widely regarded
as a key Preactor strength.
A migration tool exists to assist the migration of 9.x versions of Preactor to the new version 10.
Whilst recognising that many customers will want to take advantage of Preactor v10.0 from the outset, Preactor will
also be releasing Preactor 9.4 for those users unable to benefit from the latest Microsoft advances in SQL 2005
and/or the .NET Framework 2.
Preactor 9.4 will focus on speed enhancements with the majority of the new functionality being only available in
v10.0.
Technical Director Graham Hackwell has been responsible for overseeing the development of Preactor V10 and
anticipates very strong interest in the new version.
'As a solution, Preactor has been widely recognised for its proven abilities to deliver benefits to customers
across all manufacturing disciplines, irrespective of size'.
'Version 10 takes the existing traditional Preactor strengths, and adds to them in terms of power and flexibility,
providing the assurance of a long-term APS solution that can adapt perfectly in step with any business'.
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