EarthSoft announced the release of EQuIS Version 5.5. The new versions of EQuIS Enterprise, EQuIS Professional, EQuIS for ArcGIS Desktop, and EQuIS Data Processor (EDP) contain over 400 new features and bug fixes.
EQuIS Professional is a Smart Client edition of EQuIS 5 for ‘Power Users’. Crosstab reports, a variety of exports to third party graphics, statistics, and analytical tools and a powerful reporting/graphics engine make EQuIS 5 Professional the tool of choice for users demanding advanced capabilities. Advanced data mining capability is included. EQuIS Professional is available in MSDE for standalone, inexpensive deployment.
Because EQuIS 5 Professional is written in Microsoft VB.NET, No-Touch Deployment provides all of the functionality of a Windows application with the ease of use of a web application.
EQuIS 5 Professional runs against either a SQL Server or Oracle database. (Both EQuIS 5 Professional and Enterprise run against the same database.)
An extensive quality assurance process preceded this release, including over two thousand hours of testing by EarthSoft staff and members of the EQuIS community.
Highlights of the new features include:
• Database Changes:
o Add custom fields to DT_WATER_LEVEL table
o Add STATUS_FLAG field to DT_LOCATION table
o Add new DT_FINDING table
• Reports:
o PARENT_SAMPLE_CODE field is now included in “Analytical Results”
o New “Analytical Results (Extra Fields)” report lets you pick additional fields from related tables
o New “Analytical Results (Statistics)” report computes advanced statistics (skewness, Mann-Kendall, Sen slope, etc.) of analytical results
o Publish EDD exports as reports
• Crosstab Reports:
o New “Referenced Aggregate” feature finds a value within an aggregate (e.g. report the sample date of the maximum result for each location)
o Publish crosstabs with the full set of input parameters
o Enhanced Excel template support when exporting crosstabs
• EDP
Save error logs as *.xls or *.txt
o Export reference values to Excel
o Improved support for scientific notation
o New “Most Recently Used” menu to easily find recent formats and files
• EQuIS for ArcGIS Desktop
o Support for ArcGIS v10 (as well as v9.3 and v9.3.1)
o 3D Preview Window for 3D Analyst
o Automatically create sublayers for EZView reports (e.g. create a layer for each month/quarter/year)
o 'Contours with Surfer' module can contour multiple layers at the same time
o Support for RockWorks 15 includes geologic profiles and 3D fences
EQuIS product demonstration videos are available at EarthSoft's Community Center and YouTube channel – http://community.earthsoft.com and www.youtube.com/earthsoft
