Pittsburgh

Growing Interest in the SQL-Server Version of AGROBASE Generation II

A growing number of our clients have upgraded to the recently released AGROBASE Generation II® running on Microsoft's SQL Server®. Data migration from AGROBASE 18.4.1 to the SQL database was virtually seamless for clients in South Africa, Australia and other countries. The improved speed and other advantages have already been appreciated by those clients. A number of new clients have opted to license the SQL Server version. If you are interested in the SQL Server version of AGROBASE Generation II, let us know, and we can provide further details.

Have you Visited our Learning Centre?

More and more of our clients, and others who are evaluating the software, are watching the on-line tutorials found on our web site in the Learning Centre. We are pleased with the positive comments we have been receiving. The tutorials are designed to increase proficiency in using our software, and also help train new staff who need to use AGROBASE Generation II® in their organization. There are currently 11 on-line tutorials with sound and video, from about 6 to 24 minutes in length, all running with QuickTime® which can be downloaded from our web site if needed. The topics currently covered are: the research tree explorer that "drives" the software, importing experiments and treatments, creating and managing user-defined traits or variables, defining locations, importing data with the special link to Excel®, viewing data in an experiment, generating labels, transforming data, and performing an ANOVA. For example, to watch an in-depth tutorial on how to view your data in AGROBASE Generation II, click here. More tutorials will be developed in the coming months – please visit our web site, you will find the Learning Centre under the new "Resources" tab.

So how do these on-line tutorials relate to our training courses? We expect that the Learning Centre will enhance the value of our training courses. For all our training courses, we will expect that everyone at the introductory level will have at least watched the on-line tutorials. This way, trainees will find the course more valuable with more time spent on learning how to adapt the software to one’s unique needs and answer more specific questions. This also means that the entire course can be taught at a more advanced level, studying the software’s capabilities in greater depth.

Windows 7

We have received some inquiries as to whether AGROBASE Generation II will run on the soon-to-be-released Windows 7® of Microsoft. Our tests so far with the beta release from Microsoft indicate that there will not be any problems.

Up-Coming Training Courses

Register soon for the January 11-15 2010 course in Duesseldorf to ensure your spot and a hotel room! Likewise, don’t miss the early bird date of December 2, 2009, and also January 5, 2010 for the upcoming St Louis course. Remember, all the courses now cover the intro to advanced topics over 5 days, and you can register for any 2, 3, 4, or all 5 days, depending upon your needs and your knowledge of the software. Visit our web site on the "Services" tab and click on "Courses/Training" for details on the topics and themes for each day to determine the most appropriate days if you plan to attend any of our courses. Or, click here for the registration forms and all the information

The Stellenbosch March 18-19, 22-24 course registration forms are now available. The early bird registration deadline date is February 18, 2010. This course will be held right after the Southern African Plant Breeding Association’s 8th Symposium in Stellenbosch, where Dr Mulitze is one of the speakers.

We have already had some inquiries about our next course in Australia. The dates for the next course in Australia will July 19-23, 2010, in Adelaide, South Australia. The early bird registration deadline date is May 10, 2010 and the registration form is available from our web site.

Visit Us in Pittsburgh

Are you coming to the American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 1-5, 2009? Please come and visit us in booth #1938. We would be pleased to show you how AGROBASE Generation II can strengthen your research, and also demonstrate the newly released SQL Server version.

Latest Version Release

This week we released a new update to Generation II VFP version, we are now at v18.5.1. If you are currently running version 18 you need only download the agrobase.exe from Downloads under the Resources section of our web site.

Earlier versions need to download the setup-v18.exe.

Seed Inventory Module

As part of the on-going development of our software, we will be releasing a new seed inventory module in 2010. The initial beta version being developed by our IT group is nearing completion. This new module will be fully integrated within AGROBASE Generation II, but only available for the SQL Server version. This module will help users to manage their seed inventory by seed lots, keep track of seed quality and viability and other user-defined traits, control seed lot allocation, and much more. We will be announcing more details in forthcoming newsletters.

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171 Waterloo Street
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