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Vol.87 2013/9/2


1. Net UPDATE Ver.4
2. Overseas Training and Seminars

1. Net UPDATE Ver.4
  Main Features
NetUPDATE is a tool that helps you update your UC-win/UC-1 series products. It not only displays the priority level for each updates, version up history, and information on the latest releases, but also checks whether your product is up-to-date while you are running the product and if it is not up-to-date the tool let's you download the new version with a single click, provided that you have current maintenance contract. In other words, the NetUPDATE keeps your product(s) up-to-date.

We are pleased to announce the release of "NetUPDATE Ver.4" and "NetUPDATE WAN Ver.4", both with the enhanced "Log Analysis Function".
  Major improvements of Ver.4
Log Analysis Function
Function to obtain the log describing which computer is what FORUM8 product. Basically the function counts the number of hours each and every product owned by the user is in use by each computer as well as the number of times each product has been activated on each computer if at all.

The tool graphs the number of computers that activated each and every product, and for each computer it graphs the total number of times each product has been activated, the total hours of use, and the average hours of use per day. The Analysis results can be output as a report in HTML format.

The conventional log analysis function required the following 3 programs to be run for the analysis to work: F8detect, NetUPDATE WAN, and License manager that supports WAN. On top of that, the number of hours a specific product is in use on each computer could not be displayed on a graph since the conventional function did not have the ability to count logs nor did it have the ability to assign a specific product to be tallied.

The new NetUPDATE can analyze the log by itself
The new NetUPDATE can now collect the log describing the number of hours each product is in use by each computer and the number of times each product has been activated on each computer and then display the analysis results on a graph, without relying on the WAN supported license manager.

The previous version had the ability to find out which computer within a network is using which product, but did not have the ability to count the number of hours each product is in use by each computer nor the number of times each product has been activated on each computer, the kind of analysis which was feasible only through the use of NetUPDATE WAN back then. Now that's history. The new version of NetUPDATE can now find out the number of hours each computer has used each product and the number of times eacg product has been activated on each product, by itself.

The ability to choose how you wish to tabulate the log has been added
The ability to specify how you wish to tabulate the log has been added. The options are (A) count up the log for each product and (B) count up the log for each computer. In addition, the system now supports 'advanced search'. For instance, if you choose option B (count up the log for each computer) and then specify a product on 'advanced search', the number of hours that product is in use and the number of times that product has been activated are summed up for each computer and the results are then displayed on a table. Alternatively, if you choose option A (count up the log for each product) and then specify a computer on 'advanced search', you can find out how many hours each and every product owned by the user was used on that computer.

Figure 1 A window for specifying how to tabulate the log

Improvement of interface
The interface has been improved in such a way that you can now choose how you want the log to be tabulated and have the results displayed, both on a single window. The way in which tabulated results are shown can be switched around with a click of a tab.

Moreover the conventional version could only show the top 10 products on a graph, however from this version, all products whose log has been obtained can now be shown on the graph.

The ability detect the old versions has been added.
NetUPDATE detects the FORUM8 products which is installed in your PC and displays them in "Installed products" tab. The version that you own and the latest version available are both displayed beside each product that you own, therefore you can check if your product is up-to-date.

In the previous version of NetUPDATE, the products were deleted off the "Installed products" list whenever you take up the paid "Uprade". This is no longer the case in the new release as the products are kept in the list even after you take up the paid "Upgrade", hence older versions can be searched for.

Figure 2 Installed products


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Figure 3 Total number of time the product
has been activated
  Figure 4 Total hours of product in use
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Figure 5 The number of PCs
  Figure 6 Average hour of use in a day
(Up&Coming '13 Summer Issue)
2. Overseas Seminars and Exhibition
Exhibition

Date Exhibition Name Location
16 Sep. - 19 Sep, 2013 SimTect Brisbane, Australia
18 Sep. - 20 Sep, 2013 FORUM8 Design Festival Tokyo, Japan
30 Sep. - 2 Oct, 2013 European Transport Conference Frankfurt, Germany
8 Oct. - 10 Oct, 2013 InterGeo 2013 Essen, Germany
15 Oct. - 18 Oct, 2013 ITS WORLD CONGRESS TOKYO 2013 Tokyo, Japan
30 Oct. - 31 Oct, 2013 CONVR 2013 London UK
21 November, 2013 Award ceremony for the 3rd Virtual Design World Cup
and the 1st Cloud Programming World Cup
Tokyo, Japan

For more information and applications, please email us at

mailto :
office@forum8.com

The 3rd Student BIM & VR Design Contest on Cloud and the 1st Student Cloud Programming World Cup have been decided to be held. The overviews can be seen on FORUM8's website. If you got interested in these contest, do not hesitate to contact us and register!

Application term / Schedule

Registration Period June 13 (Thu) - September 30 (Mon), 2013
Project Submission Period October 1 (Tue) - October 10 (Thu), 2013
Judging Period October 15(Tue)-October 24 (Thu), 2013
Announcement for nominated work October 25 (Fri), 2013
Award Ceremony October 25 (Fri), 2013
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