The SIM4ME Portal facilitates a simple, bidirectional transfer of applicable variables between integrated IPS simulation software and Microsoft® Excel. The Portal allows a novice user to interact with the simulation through an Excel spreadsheet without necessitating prior knowledge or experience with software. Applicable variables are dragged-and-dropped from a list of available variables. Once they have been dropped on the Excel spreadsheet, those variables are used to control the simulation.
The SIM4ME Portal is the next step in collaborative engineering facilitating communication between different IPS simulation software products and one of the most commonly used business applications in the world, Excel. This collaboration exponentially expands the power of any simulation software product on its own by making it the simulations easier to use and effectively broadening the user base to anyone who is capable of using Excel. This maximizes the ROI in process models by increasing their usage.