Benefits

The Mathcad Application Server is designed to help you manage calculations in a timely, cost-effective, secure manner. It allows your organization to:

• Connect the organisation: Distribute interactive Mathcad-based documents across an entire company, university, extranet or public Website from a single server, for widespread but protected use. Any calculation, graphing, or solving tool available in Mathcad 11 can be used to create an online calculation.
• Compose complex sites easily: Generate complex, interactive Web-based math applications with no server-side scripting or HTML development. Existing Mathcad legacy documents can be easily converted to Web-ready versions for broader distribution and reuse.
• Ensure document integrity: Ensure integrity of the original algorithm, and free individual workstations for prototyping work. Document integrity is preserved because worksheets are always saved in their original state. Only fields designated by the original author can be changed.
• Communicate math transparently: Deliver documents to users with little to no experience with Mathcad. The only knowledge required is how to use an Internet Web browser and form field elements, such as text boxes, list boxes, and buttons. Documents are rendered as they are in Mathcad, so mathematics appears in conventional math notation, along with all text and graphics elements incorporated in the original Mathcad document.
• Reduce hardware maintenance: Eliminate maintenance of many desktop Mathcad systems - client machines have only minimal system requirements, no plug-ins required.
• Control document security: Control access to documents through Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS).

Additional benefits for higher education

• Provide immediate feedback: Deliver interactive, online self-assessments that allow students to check their understanding of topics discussed in class, with instantaneous feedback.
• Deliver dynamic tutorials: Make online tutorials available for self-paced learning that include live math examples.
• Enhance distance learning: Enable effective distance education with interactive math-based materials.
• Create a solutions library: Create a repository of solutions to standard problems in engineering for students to use to generate specific results and analyse them.
• Share resources: Post assignments and solution sets on the Web that demonstrate calculations dynamically.
• Enable exploration and discovery: Provide explorations that allow students to experiment with mathematical models and draw conclusions based on their observations.