Date: 24 July 2014	Issue: 19
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Join us in September for Insight D.C. 2014!

Vitech is pleased to annouce that registration is open for Insight D.C. 2014, taking place in Reston, VA, on September 16, 2014. 

Join us for a full day of insights, methodology, tips, and tricks in CORE while you strengthen your skill set and knowledge of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) within our user family. This event is specifically tailored for Vitech software users and is designed to provide the expertise needed to maximize the MBSE investment. Topics will focus on program management, testing, compliance, and user tips for our software products as well as insights to the future of MBSE. 

Registration is free, but seats are limited. Register today.

Join the Growing Vitech Team

Vitech Corporation is entering a new and exciting phase in its 22-year history, and we are looking for talented and energetic individuals to join our team. With an increasing emphasis on model-based approaches, our marketplace is moving towards the Vitech solution, and we are seeing more interest every day. Vitech is seeking to change the world through the advancement of systems engineering approaches, and we need team members who are up for the challenge! 

We are currently searching for several software engineering experts and a Washington, D.C.-based account executive. Our software positions are described on our website and those interested in the account executive position should email humanresources@vitechcorp.com. Senior Account Executives are responsible for communicating the business value of Vitech products and solutions to engineers, managers, and executives. The emphasis is on customer identification, qualification, communication, and management of sales opportunities.

INCOSE IS 2014 Review: Opportunities to Learn and Teach in Las Vegas

It was an excellent week in Las Vegas for the Vitech team - the engineering team had excellent opportunities to teach and learn through tutorials, paper presentations, and the Tool Vendor Challenge, and our account executives had opportunities to catch up with existing and prospective users of CORE and GENESYS.

The highlight of the week was the excellent set of reviews we received for Zane Scotts MBSE Tutorial from Saturday. For those who weren't able to attend due to the wait list or scheduling, please let us know! We would be happy to talk to you about opportunities to have Zane give his presentation to your team. Just reply to this email for more information. 

In addition to Zane's success, Vitech was pleased to host several presentations in a hospitality suite. Those presentations were well-received and we are happy to be planning to bring them back as webinars this fall! Keep an eye out for invitations in your inbox. 

Learning is a Two-Way Street

As the leading lady on the other side of the Vitech support phone number, I’ve talked to a lot of people over the years, some more than others. Even though my friends joke that it would be so hard to listen to problems all the time, I must say it’s been an absolute pleasure to get to know so many from across our user community. There are some customers that I lovingly call my “repeat offenders” – which usually translates to a power user. Our power users are always looking to know more – calling me with a “how do I,” “what about,” or “where did that button go?”

One of my favorite “repeat offenders” is Space Man D. D is the definition of a power user. He’s been using CORE longer than I’ve worked for Vitech and has even taught me a thing or two about our products. Sometimes when I’m talking to a power user like D I forget he’s human like the rest of us...more... 

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Today's Tip: Scheduling Tasks

As much as we want to focus our days around creativity and innovation, often times “housekeeping” tasks can consume much of our time and our mental energy. A daily web update to publish interim project deliverables, a key metrics report to log our status, regular data exchange / synchronization with the greater engineering project environment, or simply utilities to aid the engineer – all offer value but at the expense of the project at hand.

With CORE, you have the ability to schedule tasks (specifically reports), relying on automation to address the perspiration of the project while you focus your precious time on the value-added inspiration. Part of the user preferences, the task scheduler allows you to identify specific reports to run at any frequency for whatever need you have.

Any CORE report can be scheduled to run as a scheduled task. Prompts will use their default values and output files will be auto-saved in the CORE\Output\temp folder so that existing reports can run unattended. If you want special behavior – writing a file to a network drive for data exchange or publishing a work product to a specific location – you can easily modify a script to do just that. The intent is to seamlessly automate existing capabilities while at the same time enriching your toolkit to enhance and customize the CORE experience.

All scheduled reports run within your user session while you are logged into CORE. This means that they run with your privileges and are governed by all project permissions.

To set up a scheduled report, click Tools > User Preferences.  Then click Task Scheduler.

We look forward to your feedback on these tips. Contact us and let us know how we did and to suggest more topics.