Enhanced modelling and collaboration with Central

Overview

Video Transcript

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<v Peter>Hello, everyone.</v>

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Welcome, my name’s Peter.

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I’m one of the product managers here at Seequent.

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Looking forward to chatting to you today about some

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of the new work we’ve just completed at Central,

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so there’ll be workflows and also a lot of the things

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that are coming up in the next six to 12 months as well.

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Now I know I’m in a bit of a competitive time slot,

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at the moment I’m competing

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with the polar bears from the Toronto Zoo.

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But thanks for coming along and listening in today.

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Just before we kick off, short disclaimer here,

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everything you’ll see in today is Seequent’s

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and there may be some forward looking statements,

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’cause we’re talking about some things on the roadmap.

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So there is always a bit of uncertainty there,

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but we’re pretty happy with what we’re about to show.

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So let’s start out talking about what’s new in Central,

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some of the new workflows we’ve got

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and then I’ll move over and talk into some

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of the future capabilities on the roadmap.

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So, in Central, one of the key parts

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of the product is this ability

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to visualize and share information.

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So you can share with a colleague and they can see it in 3D,

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but with the Central browser,

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it’s our old way of doing things with the desktop,

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and it’s really challenging to engage an audience.

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It’s really hard to actually get in there and get started.

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Start the application up and navigate

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to the project that’s imported.

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So what we’ve be working on for the last 12 months,

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really changes the game here.

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In Central it’s now possible

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to open your project up directly in the web.

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What you can see here on the screen,

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is our new web-based visualization.

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So you can simply navigate to your company’s Central portal

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and you’ve got all of that visualization functionality

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that you expect from Seequent right in 3D.

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So you can slice, you’ve got full slice control,

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just like you would have in Leapfrog.

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You’ve got your ability to do various different types

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of geoscience data with various controls.

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So you can see here on the screen,

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looking at a model, just this small one here,

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I’ll show you some bigger ones in a minute.

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But it’s really, really powerful,

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we put a lot of work into the graphics.

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We’ve got performance to, I reckon, in places better than

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what we’re getting out of the desktop.

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So we’re really excited to get this functionality up.

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One of the best bits is that because it’s Cloud based,

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you don’t have to install anything.

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There’s no updates for you to do.

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We handle all of that behind the scenes.

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You just get to take advantage of the latest capability.

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With this, also, one of the powerful things

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is sharing with a colleague.

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You can copy that URL, up the top,

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if they’ve got permission to Central, away they go.

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So if you want to share something with your manager,

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it’s now really easy to do so.

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Another key piece that’s new, is of Central,

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before all this was stuff was released,

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at the end of last year,

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is this ability to engage your team.

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Now we put out notifications, about 12 months ago,

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and it would inform you when there was a new version

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of the project available, but one of the challenges is,

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is it didn’t really take you anywhere.

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That’s really hard to actually link from,

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say an email notification to a desktop application

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and take you into 3D.

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So what we’ve done now,

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we’ve got this web-based visualization,

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is your notifications are going to take you directly

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to the conversation, right to where it’s important.

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So in this example here, you can see here,

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Anderson’s actually tagged me in 3D, he’s at mentioned me,

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a new piece was just added.

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And what it’s going to do is it’s taken me straight

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to the 3D interface and right

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to the point of the conversation.

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So what it means is that,

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the way that you have your wider team involved in a project,

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you don’t publish a new version,

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you’re going to comment on something.

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It’s really a much more engaging experience

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’cause they don’t need to install anything.

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Here I can use the at mention, I’m going to tag Anderson.

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“Yeah I think we should drill another hole here,”

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for example, he’s going to get a message,

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instantly, be able to jump in there in 3D.

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So those notifications, which are linked either via email

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or through an app, will take you straight to 3D now,

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which is super powerful.

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And you’ve also got the option here

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to change your preferences.

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If you don’t want to follow a particular project,

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turn it off, we know how noisy those things can get.

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All right, so that’s new.

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Another piece that we’ve put a lot of work into is

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how some of our new workflows

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for connecting to data sources.

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A couple of years ago, we put into Central the ability

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to link a mesh from one project to another.

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And what that meant, is that you could actually

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link the output created by one team member

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with someone else’s project.

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So for example, someone’s modeling the alterations,

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someone else is modeling the geology,

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you could model those separately

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and then bring them back together.

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And that worked pretty well,

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but what we’ve done in the last release,

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is we’ve really lit those workflows on fire.

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And there’s a whole lot of new options,

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both to input source data, as well as link to data

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that other people have created.

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So what this means is that we’ve done two things.

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So we’ve put in this ability to import more

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from what we call the Central data room.

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What this allows you to do is import things like points,

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structural data or lines, drill holes, geophysical grids,

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link them to the project.

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So when they update you’re going to be always working

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with the latest data.

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So you can see here,

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I’m just going through the import workflow now

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and what that enables you to do, like I said, is link it,

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could be linked to more than one project,

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if you need as well, which is really powerful.

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Now the other thing that we’ve done,

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so we focused on the source data,

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linking through files by the data room,

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we also put a lot of work into

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how those objects can be imported across projects.

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So now you can not only just import meshes across projects,

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you can import an entire geological model.

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Here I am reloading the latest version

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of part that’s imported into my project.

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So it means you can create this dynamic workflows

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where you’re getting objects from various projects,

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pulling them to get, for example, link them up

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to an estimation object and everything’s going to be dynamic

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and flow through.

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So that’s just pulled through that latest information.

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Let’s see it going through and processing now.

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Alright, so that’s some of the stuff that’s new,

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there’s some really powerful functionality in there.

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If you haven’t already seen it and you’ve got Central,

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go and check out the web-based visualization,

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just open up the Central Portal,

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find a project, jump in there.

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We actually got a release coming out on Sunday,

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so there’s going to be some new new capability

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in there coming up for you anyway, a well.

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But if you haven’t got Central, reach out to one of our team

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and someone will be happy

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to show you all the latest capability.

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One thing I forgot to mention at the start as well,

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if you do have any questions, please drop them in the chat.

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We’re going to have some questions towards the end.

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All right, so what’s next?

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We’ve got a big piece of work coming up at the moment,

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in Central, to improve the way we share content.

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So at the moment, we’re bringing in this new concept

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around scenes, you’re probably familiar with scenes

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from Leapfrog or from Oasis montaj with the 3D views.

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Scenes let you highlight a point of interest in the project.

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The thing that’s most important for the people

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that are less familiar.

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So you want to look at a particular drilling interceptor

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or a particular structure, you can create a scene

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and your colleagues will be able to open

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that up directly on the latest version

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or on the version that it’s created.

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So we’re working on the scenes workflows right now,

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and we’re hoping to have these out mid year for you,

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so it’s going to make it easy for those people less familiar

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with the project to be able to just go

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and go to those important points of interest,

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without having to need to know the intricacies of it.

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We’re working on sharing.

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So at the moment, you’ve got some level of sharing in there

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and you can invite various team members to projects

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and they’ve got full access

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or just at least to view or edit.

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We’re bringing in a new concept of a guest user.

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Now what this will mean is that you can share

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with people outside your organization.

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It’s not going to be any cost associated with the guest scene,

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you’ll get a cut down experience,

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but it’ll let you kind of share just that 3D view

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that you want to, it’ll allow to share one of those scenes

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with the people who need to see it.

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So we think it’s going to be really great for you

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to help drive engagement on your projects.

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There’ll be ways for those guests users

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to also become part of the team,

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if they want to receive the notifications

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and be a bit more involved.

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We’re working on embedding.

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So if you want to communicate with a really wide audience,

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you need to be able to make things public.

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So Central has been focused on really,

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being quite secure and controlled,

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we’re now adding another piece to it,

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to allow you, when you choose,

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to be able to make something public

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and either embed it on a webpage,

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so that everyone can see it.

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So we’re using that new web-based visualization,

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so that’s what we’ve done in Seequent view before,

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but we’ll be able to take that up a notch

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with better performance and larger model sizes

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and more control for you so you don’t have

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to update the website so often when you have a new version.

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So there’s that work, going to be going down as well.

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Another key piece we’re focused on at the moment,

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is the team aspect.

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We know that geology is not just about the geologists,

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there’s multiple disciplines at play here.

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And we understand how complex this can get.

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Everyone’s got their own applications

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they need to work with,

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everyone’s got their own proprietary files they need

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to work with and we’re trying to simplify that process.

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So we’ve got work coming up in the pipeline

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to really enhance the integrations

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with Oasis montaj to bring a more consistent to the fold.

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Also GeoStudio suite as well

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to enable geotechnical engineers

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and engineering geologists to also have access

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to the latest geology data.

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And following on from this, we’re thinking about

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how we can integrate with partner products.

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So we’ve got a whole body of work here

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to really open up our APIs and integrations

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to partner companies, customers as well eventually, we hope,

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and we actually got our first integration,

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going to be coming out, hopefully around mid year

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with Midalytics and MX deposit,

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allowing you to link up your drill hole data,

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right through to your implicit model via Cental.

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So this work is really exciting

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because we are going to be adding many, many partners in here,

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not just one or two,

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we’re hoping to have heaps of them coming in.

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It’s all about making it a repeatable process

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so that we can allow you to connect up

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to all the partner applications that you need to.

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So if you haven’t already seen MX deposit,

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I believe Dave Curtis going to be doing a demo

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through the middle of next week.

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So he’s going to show some of this integration.

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So if you want to have a look at it, go check it out.

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And if you happen to catch the presentation earlier,

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on Seequent Evo, Penny talked a lot more

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about the Seequent integrations

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and some of that stuff we’re doing

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to enable a wide ecosystem of applications.

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So that’s all I’ve got here for you today.

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I hope you’ve found it informative and learnt a few things.

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There’s a lot happening,

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these are just some of the highlights,

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a lot of smaller features coming

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through in our next release, things around performance

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and extra data types that you’re going to be able to use.

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And there’s a whole load of stuff coming through

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in that web-based visualization as well

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to give you more tools to interrogate your data.

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So on that note, thanks for listening.

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Open up for questions, now, if you’ve got any questions,

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please drop them in the chat.

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I’m more than happy to take a few now.

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And if not, thanks very much.

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<v Steven>Thank you, Peter, my name’s Steven Donovan.</v>

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I’m just here to help answer any questions.

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And if you have any, just pop them into the chat there.

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So I’ve got one to get started here.

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You mentioned that there’s a release coming this Sunday.

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How frequent are we releasing new features from Central?

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<v Peter>Yeah, good question.</v>

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So some of our new Cloud components,

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like the web-based visualization

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that you see there in that Central Portal.

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We’re going to be releasing those once a month

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but we’ll probably even go down to almost every two weeks.

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The neat thing about that is because it’s Cloud based,

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there’s nothing for you guys to worry about on your side.

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We’ll do the updates

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and we can really easily roll out additional versions

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if there’s any issues or roll back to to previous ones.

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Doesn’t have those same compatibility challenges

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that you have with the desktop

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and project upgrades and things like that.

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So it’s a much more modern way of releasing software.

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So we hope we can deliver more to you guys, quicker.

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<v Steven>That’s great.</v>

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And there’s another question here on integrations,

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so how important is it that we integrate

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with others in the industry

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to break down these geoscientific silos?

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<v Peter>Yeah, we see that it’s really important.</v>

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And Seequent for a long time, for our various products,

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we’ve done a lot of integrations.

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They’ve generally been quite kind of point to point, though.

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And when I say that, I mean, we’ve shared information

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with the company and we work on a particular file format

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or a particular connection,

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problem is it doesn’t scale up right

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and this is half the challenge we have is that,

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we know we’ve got to actually connect up

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with like 50 different software packages,

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not just five or 10.

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So we see it as super important

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and the key here to really enable us

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to get things going is to make things repeatable

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and scalable so that you really get a number

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of partners in pretty quickly.

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So, yeah, watch the space, the big focus is on

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how we can repeat the process.

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<v Steven>Fantastic.</v>

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Well, I’m not seeing any more questions

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in the chat there Peter,

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so unless there’s anything else from anyone,

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I think we can wrap things up.

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Thank you very much.

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