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OPERIS ANALYSIS KIT (OAK)

Operis is pleased to announce the release of version 4.00 of OAK, the Operis Analysis Kit, a widely used tool that adds to Microsoft Excel various facilities useful in the development and review of large spreadsheet models.

Compared with the previous version, OAK has been redeveloped so that it is compatible with Excel 2007 and with Windows Vista, though it continues to work with earlier versions of MS Office and Windows. When used with Excel 2007, it presents a new ribbon-style interface and can handle the larger spreadsheets that that application now addresses.

It has also been rewritten for performance, as that is important when dealing with those larger spreadsheets. Some functions are several hundred times faster than they were.

OAK 4.00 introduces new and ambitious technologies for understanding the process by which a spreadsheet gets to a result, particularly aimed at functions such as VLOOKUP, SUMIF and OFFSET which can be hard to decipher. It enhances the product's market leading ability to compare similar spreadsheets, distinguishing between true changes and spurious differences that are no more than a byproduct of spreadsheet cells changing position.

For the first time version 4.00 exposes all of OAK's facilities to COM, so that it can be programmed in VBA and similar languages, allowing an organisation's own favourite spreadsheet review methods to be automated.

OAK 4.00 is available for 30 day trial at www.operisanalysiskit.com where it is accompanied by extensive documentation which discusses techniques for gaining confidence that conclusions drawn from spreadsheets are dependable.

Version 4.0 - Visit the new OAK v4 Website