Mathematica Player Family: Interactive Deployment: Case Studies

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There is no faster way to make and deploy a technical application than with Mathematica and Player Pro. With full Mathematica technology under the hood, Player Pro does the same calculations and runs the same programs as Mathematica but is a highly cost-effective deployment solution.

It's not uncommon for an application that takes a month to program in Java to take a day to program in Mathematica--and to take no time to deploy with Player Pro. It's quicker and easier to amend, too, and gives you the confidence of the world's most reliable computational engine.

The threshold for making applications came down dramatically with the release of Mathematica 6. Rather than give a dead report, you can supply applications or fully interactive documents. Instantly more impressive and more useful to your clients, an interactive document gets them engaged in your solution.

If your contracted deliverable is an application, make it faster and better. Solutions can be delivered with the low-cost, bundled Player Pro, licensed by you on behalf of your client or directly by your client.

When your frontline teams are working with clients, the choice of how to present information is usually between a fixed PowerPoint slideshow, dead information like graphs or charts, or a rough in-house application that was hard to build.

Mathematica and Player Pro mean it's now practical to make professional-looking applications specially for your teams, basing them on your sophisticated R&D models, with state-of-the-art presentation and ease-of-use that builds confidence. Customers can get answers to their "what-if" questions in real-time, adding credibility and shortening your sales cycle.

And it's not just frontline teams that benefit. Mathematica is the ideal environment for building high-tech applications for any group, deploying them through Player Pro throughout your organization.

"At low cost, we've equipped our agents with interactive applications showing the effect on policy payouts of changing a variety of parameters. It was easy for our research teams to build the software, it's easy for our agents to use it, and it's easy to engage our clients and for them to understand the options."

As well as being a powerful technical analysis tool, Mathematica takes system integration seriously. It brings together your static, database, and web data and lets you make it accessible to your users through an easy-to-use graphical interface.

What's new with the Player Pro solution is how high-powered analysis can be easily embedded in the applications, mining the most information out of your data.

Getting your R&D or analysis noticed around your organization can sometimes be a challenge. Traditional dead reports or PowerPoint presentations often make you choose between in-depth presentations that overwhelm with detail or executive summaries that fail to convince.

With interactivity, your recipients--whether colleague, client, or manager, technical or not--can explore the scenarios that they want to. The process gets them engaged in your content, asking and answering "what-if" questions themselves. Because of the ease of authoring and speed of deployment, Mathematica and Player Pro for the first time make interactive reports a practical option, bringing unprecedented improvements to the accuracy and efficiency of technical communication within an organization.

"My director has been really impressed with my interactive reports. They catch his attention and give me a much better chance of getting my projects approved."

Instead of just giving students a handout to read with your class, provide them with interactive courseware. Get them in control of understanding the concepts--for example, by dynamically controlling results through parameter changes. Make these notebooks complete with your course notes and mathematical expressions, easier than you would have made static documents and plots before.

All your students need is the free Mathematica Player to take advantage of the interactive courseware you develop.

Most technical research could be better communicated with applications that represent the findings alongside the traditional text, mathematical expressions, plots, and diagrams. This didn't used to be practical: too difficult to make, too hard to use, or too costly to deploy.

Mathematica and Player changed that, enabling embedded interactive Mathematica applets to be part of every research paper--easy to make, yet deployable to the free Mathematica Player that anyone can download.

Publishing a notebook for interactivity in Player is straightforward »

Publishers: find out how to accept notebook submissions and deploy Player interactivity »

Open-access publishing usually distributes web pages, PDFs, and other non-active content. Instead, encourage your authors to make their content active--adding in applications where readers change values, move graphs, or evaluate results. Notebooks are the ideal medium for delivering technical content. They have always combined computable mathematics with graphics and textual content in a highly versatile and translatable document format, but now Mathematica's unique embedded interactivity is an integral part, too. And it's deployable through the free Mathematica Player--fitting in with the open-access publishing model.

Wolfram Research has proved the success of interactive publishing with the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. As well as providing an unrivaled resource for technical content, it is an ideal, high-traffic location for publicizing key findings from open-access articles.

Until recently, making a technical book's electronic supplement or website has involved programmers recoding the original material. With the power of Mathematica technology and the Player family deployment options, only an original Mathematica source is necessary. One source for all your material and one process for production. Interactivity built-in. Branded deployment with the world's leading, ready-made, professional engine. Publishers are seeing the new technology make many new projects feasible, slashing the time and author services needed to produce professional electronic and interactive content.

Wolfram Research hosts its own free high-traffic Mathematica application publishing site--the Wolfram Demonstrations Project--where posted interactive content examples can draw attention to your full publication.

"We're bundling Mathematica Player and the associated interactive applications with our educational books. Improvements have been three-fold: we offer many more applications as they're easier to make, better quality with machine interoperability and--because the examples are at Wolfram's high-traffic site, too--great marketing for the book."

If you are an educational product or service provider looking to bundle dramatic, valuable content, talk to us about using Mathematica Player technology. We can get you up-and-running quickly with a range of content, technology, licensing, and branding to suit your needs.

Because building applets with Mathematica doesn't require you to be a programmer, teachers and lecturers are building exciting content every day, content that we can work with you to license, customize, and deploy.

"This is a whole new way to learn that we think can affect literally every high school student at every level, helping them understand tough concepts in ways that are just not possible with pencils, chalk, or old-fashioned overhead projectors."

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