Alienbrain Studio 7.1
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:39 pm
What's New in Alienbrain Studio 7.1?
Release 7.1 of Alienbrain Studio is designed to further improve your team's performance. In addition to all the new features introduced with version 7, the newly released version 7.1 provides preview and thumbnail displays that are up to 10 times faster, even more powerful search options and a new context sensitive help.
Significantly improved preview and thumbnail speed (up to 10x faster)
Through local caching, Alienbrain Studio 7.1 handles preview and thumbnail communication much more efficiently. Server-side triggers ensure high first-time access performance.
Powerful new searching options
Alienbrain's capabilities for searching through the asset history and through local assets have been extended and optimized in performance. You can now also search for individual file revisions or submitted changes with the option to toggle between both.
Change Sets - advanced features
The new architecture of version 7 enables transaction-based processes, such as a change set functionality that makes it easy to track and review highly complex change operations.
With change sets, you can group changes to multiple files into a logical structure and treat changes to those files as one unit throughout the asset lifecycle. You can then submit these changes in one atomic transaction to the server, either submitting all changes at once or none at all. This process ensures data integrity on the server even in case the system is disrupted or fails.
Release 7.1 extends the change set support to cover the entire lifecycle of a software project. You can now redirect results of merge operations to a change set instead of submitting them. To facilitate maximum parallel activity, you can now check out assets based on previous versions requiring a merge when being submitted.
New SOFTIMAGE|XSI integration
With SOFTIMAGE|XSI 4.2 and Alienbrain 7.1, the Alienbrain user interface is available as an embedded view within XSI, integrating the asset management functionality seamlessly into the modeler’s workflow. This new integration also updates reference management to support all types of XSI references.
Context-sensitive help
The new release provides context-sensitive online help to assist new users in mastering Alienbrain functionality even faster. Alienbrain 7.1 also supplies reference and background information about the current task for experienced users.
Other new features in Alienbrain Studio 7 include:
Windows Integration Framework (WIF)
The new Microsoft Windows® Integration Framework (WIF) offered in version 7 enables you to integrate any Windows application into your Alienbrain asset management system with very little effort.
Improved Performance and Scalability
The newly-designed architecture of Alienbrain Studio 7 supports multi-threading, allowing teams to leverage multi-processor machines while providing the scalability needed as team sizes grow.
Central Configuration Server
The newly introduced Central Configuration Server (CCS) is a designated Alienbrain server used to store server and project-spanning information, making cross-server and cross-project administrative tasks, such as user management, easier. The CCS now also enables project-wide Mime type management.
Central User Management
The Central User Management allows administrators to create, modify, manage and delete users, user groups and user rights across projects. In addition to managing users manually, the Central User Management provides an option to synchronize its internal user base with an existing user management in a Windows® NT domain.
Users can now benefit from a true single-sign-on solution without any project-specific passwords. They can also be logged on transparently when using Windows domain logon or LDAP authentication, completely removing the need for an explicit logon.
Enhanced Reference Manager
Version 7 of Alienbrain Studio extends one of the benefits previously only available in the third-party integrations to the client: reference management.
The Reference Manager helps you get an immediate overview of your 3D scene. You can see which files a scene refers to, and in turn see which scenes refer to a specific file. That way, you can find out how a simple change might affect many other files before making the change. All this functionality is now available directly in the client.
Availability
Alienbrain Studio 7.1 is available from January 24, 2005.
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Release 7.1 of Alienbrain Studio is designed to further improve your team's performance. In addition to all the new features introduced with version 7, the newly released version 7.1 provides preview and thumbnail displays that are up to 10 times faster, even more powerful search options and a new context sensitive help.
Significantly improved preview and thumbnail speed (up to 10x faster)
Through local caching, Alienbrain Studio 7.1 handles preview and thumbnail communication much more efficiently. Server-side triggers ensure high first-time access performance.
Powerful new searching options
Alienbrain's capabilities for searching through the asset history and through local assets have been extended and optimized in performance. You can now also search for individual file revisions or submitted changes with the option to toggle between both.
Change Sets - advanced features
The new architecture of version 7 enables transaction-based processes, such as a change set functionality that makes it easy to track and review highly complex change operations.
With change sets, you can group changes to multiple files into a logical structure and treat changes to those files as one unit throughout the asset lifecycle. You can then submit these changes in one atomic transaction to the server, either submitting all changes at once or none at all. This process ensures data integrity on the server even in case the system is disrupted or fails.
Release 7.1 extends the change set support to cover the entire lifecycle of a software project. You can now redirect results of merge operations to a change set instead of submitting them. To facilitate maximum parallel activity, you can now check out assets based on previous versions requiring a merge when being submitted.
New SOFTIMAGE|XSI integration
With SOFTIMAGE|XSI 4.2 and Alienbrain 7.1, the Alienbrain user interface is available as an embedded view within XSI, integrating the asset management functionality seamlessly into the modeler’s workflow. This new integration also updates reference management to support all types of XSI references.
Context-sensitive help
The new release provides context-sensitive online help to assist new users in mastering Alienbrain functionality even faster. Alienbrain 7.1 also supplies reference and background information about the current task for experienced users.
Other new features in Alienbrain Studio 7 include:
Windows Integration Framework (WIF)
The new Microsoft Windows® Integration Framework (WIF) offered in version 7 enables you to integrate any Windows application into your Alienbrain asset management system with very little effort.
Improved Performance and Scalability
The newly-designed architecture of Alienbrain Studio 7 supports multi-threading, allowing teams to leverage multi-processor machines while providing the scalability needed as team sizes grow.
Central Configuration Server
The newly introduced Central Configuration Server (CCS) is a designated Alienbrain server used to store server and project-spanning information, making cross-server and cross-project administrative tasks, such as user management, easier. The CCS now also enables project-wide Mime type management.
Central User Management
The Central User Management allows administrators to create, modify, manage and delete users, user groups and user rights across projects. In addition to managing users manually, the Central User Management provides an option to synchronize its internal user base with an existing user management in a Windows® NT domain.
Users can now benefit from a true single-sign-on solution without any project-specific passwords. They can also be logged on transparently when using Windows domain logon or LDAP authentication, completely removing the need for an explicit logon.
Enhanced Reference Manager
Version 7 of Alienbrain Studio extends one of the benefits previously only available in the third-party integrations to the client: reference management.
The Reference Manager helps you get an immediate overview of your 3D scene. You can see which files a scene refers to, and in turn see which scenes refer to a specific file. That way, you can find out how a simple change might affect many other files before making the change. All this functionality is now available directly in the client.
Availability
Alienbrain Studio 7.1 is available from January 24, 2005.
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[url=\"http://www.nxn-software.com/prod_alst_pric_us.php\"]Pricing[/url]
[url=\"http://www.nxn-software.com/prod_alst.php\"]Product Home Page[/url]