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NAG and Maplesoft announce Maple-NAG Connector

Delivers faster, more reliable models and applications in less time

Oxford, UK; Chicago, USA; February 5, 2007: Users of Maple™, the flagship modelling, exploration and application development product from Maplesoft, now have a powerful new software toolbox to further increase their capability and productivity. NAG™, the world's leading provider of numerical algorithms, has just released, in partnership with Maplesoft, the innovative Maple-NAG Connector toolbox. With this exciting new product, the extensive functionality of the NAG C Library can be invoked simply from within the Maple environment, giving convenient direct access to a very wide range of powerful numerical algorithms that complement the extensive mathematical analysis and visualization tools of Maple.

The NAG Library is the largest commercially available collection of mathematical and statistical algorithms in the world. By providing an integrated environment within Maple to make code development easier, the Maple-NAG Connector effectively provides an easy-to-use front end to all the functionality of the NAG C Library at Mark 7. The toolbox eliminates direct application compilation and also provides simplified calling sequences and searchable documentation to the NAG routines.

“This unique partnership combining the mathematical and software strengths of NAG and Maplesoft will give users significantly more freedom and control,” said Dr. Rob Meyer, Chief Executive Officer, NAG. “It is a strong embodiment of the synergy between numeric and symbolic algorithms.”

“Maplesoft's partnership with NAG provides a competitive advantage for users as it gives them the power to create faster, more reliable models and applications in shorter time,” said Jim Cooper, President, Maplesoft.

Key features of the Maple-NAG Connector include:

• Maple users have easy, familiar Maple-style access to the powerful NAG C Library numeric routines from inside the Maple environment.
• Use of NAG routines anywhere that Maple commands are used.
• Fast prototyping and modelling environment provides results quickly.
• Development and testing in an interactive environment eliminates the need for compiling or linking.
• Simplified calling sequences make coding easier.
• Appropriate default values for many parameters are provided automatically.
• NAG C Library documentation is integrated into the searchable, indexed, Maple Help System, and includes hundreds of examples coded in Maple.

The Maple-NAG Connector is very beneficial to practitioners working in application development, mathematical modelling, finance, life sciences, statistical analysis, and environmental sciences.

Pricing & Availability

Single user licences for the Maple-NAG Connector cost $295. The Maple-NAG Connector is available directly from the NAG Web Store at www.nag.com/webstore.asp, or alternatively, contact the NAG Sales Team at sales@nag.com.

About NAG

NAG's mathematical and statistical components underpin thousands of programs and applications spanning the globe in industries as diverse as financial analysis, science and engineering, and in academia and research. They are so widely used and trusted because of their outstanding and unrivalled quality, reliability and portability. Whether you are using a single PC or a cluster of the world's largest supercomputers, NAG has the numerical software capabilities to suit your model.

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft is the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics. Maplesoft offers powerful and easy-to-use tools that save time and reduce errors.

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