Author: dsellers

40% of energy companies believe digitalization can save ‘em money

Posted by | Mar 8, 2018 | , |

Aspen Technology (www.aspentech.com), an asset optimization software company, has announced the results of a recent survey of over 400 energy industry managers and executives about the impact of analytics and big data on the energy business in the next 24 months. The data confirmed that improving reliability is the key objective for upstream and downstream companies as well as the engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) firms that serve them.

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BatchOutput for Microsoft Excel Now Can Save Single Sheet PDFs

Posted by | Mar 8, 2018 | , |

Zevrix Solutions has announced BatchOutput XLS 2.5.3, a feature update to its output automation solution for Microsoft Excel.

In addition to batch printing and PDF conversion, the software lets users carry out professional PDF production directly from Excel and effortlessly repurpose Office spreadsheets for web and mobile devices. Version 2.5.3 lets users split Excel workbooks into single sheet PDF files while preserving the multi-page sheet structure in exported documents.

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Khronos Group releases Vulkan 1.1

Khronos Group releases Vulkan 1.1

Posted by | Mar 7, 2018 | , |

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating advanced acceleration standards, has released the Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V 1.3 specifications.

Version 1.1 expands Vulkan’s core functionality with developer-requested features, such as subgroup operations, while integrating a range of proven extensions from Vulkan 1.0. Khronos will also release full Vulkan 1.1 conformance tests into open source.

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HoudahGeo 5.2 for macOS adds Lightroom Classic support

HoudahGeo 5.2 for macOS adds Lightroom Classic support

Posted by | Mar 7, 2018 | , |

Houdah Software has introduced HoudahGeo 5.2, an upgrade to its photo geocoding solution for macOS.

The app “pins” photos to locations where they were taken. Just like a GPS-enabled camera, HoudahGeo embeds latitude, longitude and altitude information within the image file. It works with Photos, iPhoto, Aperture, and Adobe Lightroom. Version 5.2 adds support for Lightroom Classic, brings enhancements to the geocoding workflow, and adds support for newer EXIF tags.

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