|
|
Geotech Computer
Systems |
Summer 2009 Newsletter |
In This Newsletter...
· Enviro Software News - Update on Enviro Features
· Free Tip - Add a Table Properties Report to an Access Database
· Environmental Humor
· Quarterly Special - Geotech Economic Stimulus Plan
· Smart Moves in Tough Times - Software Rental
A
Quick Word
Welcome to the Summer, 2009 issue of our newsletter. We hope you find it interesting and useful. And remember, it's for you, and not for us, so if there's something you would like to see, please let us know at info@geotech.com. See our Spring 2009 newsletter here.
Enviro Software News - Update on Enviro Features
The Enviro development team continues to add new, useful features. Three of particular interest in the latest version of Enviro Data include a significant rewrite of the existing sample planning tool, major enhancements to the validation tool, and a feature to import data from a field sonde. The new sample planning tool lets you input your sample plan (stations, parameters, methods, QC, etc.) and then generate events from that plan. You can then automatically create a file for field data entry, and print chains of custody. At the end you can then run an automated completeness check. The improvements to the data validation are based on feedback from a number of chemist clients, and significantly increase flexibility and workflow. The new import feature takes time series data from a YSI Sontek probe and lets you configure the aggregation of the data into useful results for reporting. Contact Geotech for a demo if you would like a demonstration of these or other features.
|
Enviro Spase, our GIS tool, has recently been updated with several new features. For example, the Stick Log wizard has been expanded to allow display of lithologic data along with or instead of concentration data. The logs can be placed on the map next to the station locations, or can be offset to a predetermined location. They can be shown by depth or elevation, and there are a variety of options to display the logs in a way that is most useful for your projects. Another enhancement affects the various callout wizards. You can now specify the background of the callout box based on user-defined station groups, giving you a great deal of flexibility in highlighting the data in a variety of useful ways. These and other features, some that have been released and some in development, help make Enviro Spase an even more useful tool for displaying your environmental data. |
Enviro Spase Stick Log |
To see more new Enviro features, click on eData 2008 or eSpase 2008.
Free Tip - Add a table properties report to an Access database
Dr. Dave Rich has created a free utility, TableInfo, for working with Access databases. This utility was featured in an article in Access Office VB Advisor magazine. TableInfo contains a report that you can put in your Access database to display the properties of the tables in that database. Please download TableInfo with our compliments:
·
Ctrl-Click the TableInfo link above to open the Geotech website.
·
Click the Free Software! button and then click the TableInfo link.
·
Click the appropriate Click here
link for your version of Access.
·
Click Save on the File Download
screen.
·
Select
the desired folder for your download, and then click Save.
Environmental
Humor
Environmental problems are complex
problems. Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong
answers.
If the outcome of a test is likely to change, conduct the test
only once.
Quarterly Special - Geotech Economic Stimulus Plan
Geotech is
very sensitive to the current state of the economy, and how it is affecting our
environmental clients. Geotech would like to help you out by offering you a big
savings on your database management needs - buy one Enviro Data Advanced or Concurrent license, and get a second
license for 50% off. That's a savings of up to $2,500, plus the technical
expertise you will need to make this the year you get ahead on your
environmental database projects. Our latest update of this software lets you
define your plans and events, prepare field data entry files, print chains of
custody, and track container and preservation requirements. And at the end of
the event, Enviro Data can run a completeness report so you can see if you got
what you expected. This is in addition to Enviro Data's other strong features,
including robust importing and QC, reporting and limit comparisons, graphs,
maps, and much more. Save time and money by getting your sampling program right
the first time, and managing it efficiently. So buy your copies of Enviro Data today and see for yourself why so many companies
are switching to Enviro Data. Call today for more
details and to take advantage of this limited time offer. 877-740-1999
(Toll-Free)
Smart Moves in Tough Times - Software Rental
Did you know that you can rent
Geotech's powerful Enviro
Data software? We have a rent-to-own program that keeps your initial investment
down, while putting the software to work on your projects, saving time and
improving quality, right now. The rental fee is low enough that you can
expense
the software to overhead or administration, allowing you to purchase now instead
of having to wait for a project to expense it to. Contact Geotech for details at
877-740-1999 (Toll-Free).
Geotech
Press Releases
May 15, 2009 - Geotech Client List
Continues to Grow
May was another very busy month for
the staff at Geotech, with many new software purchases, and new and ongoing
service work. Two of May's new
Enviro Data clients include: a major regional
environmental company that implemented Enviro Data for
their municipal government and private sector work, and the second is a company
that operates several saltwater disposal systems in west
Some of our service work that was done in May included: a major oil & gas company that is implementing Enviro Data for their coal-bed methane produced-water operations; helping one of the largest environmental companies manage their legacy and ongoing data for a major Air Force facility; assisting another very large environmental company expand and implement Enviro Data to become their corporate standard worldwide; and working with a major government contractor to expand their use of Enviro Data on several rocket-fuel clean-up projects.
May 31, 2009 - Trade Shows/Training/Demonstrations
Geotech exhibited at several trade shows and attended a number of environmental meetings in May: the Tribal Nations Meeting, May 4-7, in Albuquerque, NM, sponsored by the US Army Corps of Engineers; NDIA/E2S2 trade show in Denver, May 5-7; the National Tribal Environmental Conference, May 11-14, in Bar Harbor, ME; and a lunch meeting titled Groundwater Remediation Techniques sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Association of Environmental Professionals, May 15, in Denver, CO.
We held two Enviro Data trainings in May: one for the Iowa Tribe May 20-21, and the second May 26-28, for the staff at one of our new clients in Minnesota, and we conducted numerous demos and WebEx's last month for regional and national environmental companies in over a dozen cities around the country.
Geotech
Services
Geotech
specializes in environmental software, database management services and custom
programming. We can assist with data loading, reporting, mapping, and other
services, or we can train you to do these tasks. For
more information about Geotech products and services, please visit our web site
at http://www.geotech.com/.
FYI
If you
wish to be removed from this mailing list click Unsubscribe and then click the Send
button.
We do not buy or sell email addresses. We receive them from various sources. If you have questions about this, or any other topic in this newsletter, please contact us at info@geotech.com. All emails will be answered personally.
Do you have suggestions to improve this newsletter, or topics that you would like to see discussed? Would you like to submit an article for a future newsletter? Please email these suggestions or submissions to us at info@geotech.com. We welcome your ideas.
Feel free to forward this newsletter to a colleague or friend.
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Geotech Computer Systems, Inc.
303-740-1999 (PH)
877-740-1999 (Toll-Free)
303-740-1990 (Fax)