January 2009
 
 


KINGDOM 8.3 - NOW AVAILABLE!

Includes 100+ new enhancements

[ Click Here ] to inquire about SPECIAL introductory pricing on new 1D Forward Modeling.

Welcome to the new monthly SMT customer newsletter. The goal of this newsletter is to give you the most up-to-date information and highlights on SMT products and events.

  
     
     
  PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS  
 
 
 

What's New

KINGDOM 8.3
The new release of KINGDOM is full of powerful new capabilities, including new modules like 1D Forward Modeling, Access Security and the Mobility Sentinel. Existing modules and performance have also been significantly enhanced with over 100 additions, the majority of which are in 2d/3dPAK and EarthPAK.

  • New Modules

    • 1D Forward Modeling – Provides litholigic and fluid modeling including AVO Modeling and integrated Fluid Workshop capabilities
    • Access Security – Limits who can access which KINGDOM projects
    • Mobility Sentinel – Allows Network License owners to have time limited, disconnected access to KINGDOM. Ideal for users needing KINGDOM while traveling for work
  • New Enhancements

    • 2d\3dPAK: Improved Gridding including back interpolation to wells
    • AVOPAK: AVO Conditioning including super gathers, angle gathers, spectral balancing
    • EarthPAK: Vertical Cross Section Annotation and many other enhancements
    • LogPAK: Neural Network based Log Section Replacement
    • VelPAK: Workflow and UI improvements
    • VuPAK: Speed & Performance Improvements
  • Performance Improvements

Numbers below are estimates from internal testing, actual outcomes will vary based on customer environment. For best results, SMT recommends a high performance machine using 64bit KINGDOM, 64bit OS, and SQL or Oracle database.

    • 20x improvements to data loading using SQL\Oracle
    • 10x improvements on numerous calculator operations
    • 3x improvements to data loading using MS Access
    • 2x faster contour line displays
    • 2x faster loads of cross lines
 
     
 

Product Information

[ Click here ] to download KINGDOM 8.3 Whitepapers Package. The package includes information on everything that is new, as well as the README and Planning Guide for upgrading to 8.3

  
 

 

  
     
  CORPORATE NEWS  
 
 
 

Trying to reduce your geoscience budget this year?

Many organizations are running KINGDOM as well as more expensive legacy interpretation solutions. For organizations looking for a little extra room in their budget, switching to KINGDOM can save 60% - 80% versus the other guys. Of course, savings are different for every organization, so we created a Cost Savings Analyzer to give you an estimate of savings in your environment.

[ Click here ] to try it for yourself!

CEO Letter to Customers

Over the last year SMT improved service to customers with 2 new major releases and 3 new offices in Moscow, Calgary, and Bogotá. [ Click here ] to read our Year In Review from SMT CEO Arshad Matin.

  
     
     
  SERVICES HIGHLIGHTS  
 
 
 

What's New

Need help upgrading to KINGDOM 8.3?

SMT now offers our NEW Health Check service offering. This pre-packaged, defined cost solution will ensure that experienced professionals from SMT are there to help you migrate and optimize your current environment – saving you time and money.  Contact your account manager to learn more.

Public Training

Early Bird Discount

SMT offers an "Early Bird Discount" when courses are registered 3 weeks before the date of class.

Courses Being Offered
  • Advanced Mapping Methods
  • Advance Data Loading Techniques
  • 1 Dimensional Forward Modeling (coming in April)
 
     
 

Public Training

Q1 Training Locations
SMT offers worldwide training in the following cities - (USA) Houston, Dallas, Denver, and Lafayette; (Non-USA) Croydon, UK and Delhi.

Opening in March - SMT Training Center in our Croydon, UK office.

[ Click here ] to view SMT Public Training schedule by location.

[ Click here ] to view SMT full training course catalog.

  
     
     
  SUPPORT HIGHLIGHTS  
 
 
 

Technical Support Policy Update

With the new release of KINGDOM 8.3, we encourage our customers to upgrade and make use of all the exciting new features and fixes available in this release. In keeping with our on-going effort to improve technical support processes, we will now be migrating reported and reproducible defects from pre-8.1 releases to our current known issues queue and closing out the remainder.

This migration process will help ensure that customers maintain visibility on their active issues and will be reflected in your My Account view. During this process if you encounter a closed issue that is still a defect in a current version please don’t hesitate to contact us. We will ensure this defect is added to our current issues queue. We will continue to provide technical support guidance for on-maintenance customers on all KINGDOM versions. As a reminder, all released fixes on reported issues will continue to be released on the most current version, 8.3.

Monthly Technical Tip

Upgrading to 64bit:

2009 will likely be the year that most organizations switch over to true 64bit computing. KINGDOM has supported 64bit computing since version 8.2. However, Microsoft Access will not support 64bit. As a result, customers who wish to see the performance improvements of 64bit will need to run the freely available SQL Express, or commercially license SQL Server or Oracle databases.

Why is 64bit better?

More addressable memory! No matter how much memory your computer has, 32bit can only address 4GB of RAM. This barrier is removed with 64bit computation. Since higher performance begins with greater memory, 64bit KINGDOM can be a great improvement for customers.

In fact, in internal tests we found at least 12 different operations that were significantly faster using 64bit KINGDOM. To see our results [ click here ].

Since Microsoft will not be creating a 64bit version of MS Access, customers using MS Access today will need to migrate to SQL Express, SQL Server, or Oracle to take full advantage. However, we have included a new tool in 8.3 to help you manage this conversion more easily. You can [ click here ] to view a pre-recorded web presentation that discusses 64bit in detail.

And remember, the new SMT Health Check service offering can help get you migrated to 64bit as well. Contact your account manager to learn more.

  
     
     
  UPCOMING EVENTS  
 
 
 

To see the complete SMT Calendar of Events, online [ click here ]

Corporate Events

Colombia Office Opening Reception in Bogotá

Please join SMT for an introduction and overview of our new KINGDOM 8.3 solution as we open our new office in Bogotá. Don’t miss this chance to meet our new personnel in Colombia as well as talk to SMT executives from headquarters. In addition, there will be a technical overview of all of the exciting new capabilities in the latest release of KINGDOM. Appetizers and drinks will be provided! [ Click to register ]

Customer Demo Centers at Tradeshows

Winter NAPE Expo
February 5-6, 2009
George R Brown Convention Center

Sign up for your own CUSTOM demonstration of the all new KINGDOM 8.3.
[ Register ] for the Customer Demonstration Center

User Groups

If you are currently a customer we invite you to attend one of our local User Groups to learn product tips and tricks, network with other SMT product users and share knowledge with our product management.

1-12-09 / San Antonio User Group on 1D Forward Modeling
1-15-09 / Denver User Group on Mapping Workflow
1-27-09 / Houston User Group on AVOPAK

Webinars

Did you know that SMT is organizing regular webinars in your region and that all these webinars are available to you on our website?  Here is a list of upcoming webinars – archives of old webinars are also available on line.

1-13-09 / Correctly Mapping Surface Geology
1-20-09 / Surface depth conversion using VelPAK 8.3
2-10-09 / What's New in EarthPAK 8.3!
3-10-09 / AVO Pre-Stack Gather Conditioning: Preparing your gathers for AVO analysis
 
     
 
 
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