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In 2016, the AVAware team made a departure from the usual cycle of product development and release with version 16.1. In a typical year, AVAware would post an early spring release, followed by at least one other major product update in the fall. This year, the team merged the development schedules for the year and worked through the spring and summer on the largest and most feature-rich product update ever released.
The extended development cycle offered the developers the time they needed to bring a number of exciting new features to the product. Many of these enhancements, especially those involving our AVAproject Fusion integration platform, involved many hours of work in cooperation with some of our most experienced users to make our vision for the product a reality. AVAware attributes much of the stability that our users have come to expect and rely upon, on the extensive “beta” testing we conduct on each and every product release. With the size and complexity of version 16.1, the “beta” process was more important than ever. As such, AVAware conducted our longest and most widely participated “beta” program ever. We would like to offer our deepest and most sincere thanks to all the “beta” users that assisted us this year – as always your suggestions and feedback are the wellspring of inspiration that allow us to create the most sophisticated products ever developed for the architectural openings industry.
The list of new features in this release of AVAproject is far too extensive to describe in a single article. As always, the complete list can be found in the product’s integrated ‘Help’, and on the ‘Product Updates’ page of the AVAware website. Subscribers to our AVAwire newsletter can expect to see several articles of the next few issues that focus on specific features and enhancements in detail.
Amongst the most exciting and powerful technical achievements in 16.1, are the latest developments to the AVAproject Fusion Integration Platform. This incredible product has already been called “revolutionary” by many users, for its ability to provide integration capabilities to virtually any accounting/ERP system. Fusion has eliminated the age-old “lockdown” that competing products have placed on users, by allowing distributors to choose the accounting system that best suits them – not the one that best suits the vendor. AVAware developers have taken this integration capability to the next level; AVAproject users can now make “real-time” inquiries of Fusion and the connecting accounting system right from the Openings Schedule and/or Hardware Groups. Essentially, AVAproject Fusion has facilitated a “live” link to any supported accounting/ERP system – right from the detailing and estimating area.
As usual, a complete list of “Release Notes” is available in the software’s built-in “Help” system and can be previewed prior to download in the “Product Updates” section of the Customer Login Area.
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Note: User must have a valid AVAware "online account", and log into the client area on AVAware website to access the “Product Updates” page. |
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