The term user-friendly is over used when talking about Windows software but it is important.  You expect programs to operate a certain way so when you go from one application to another you know what to expect.  Aquifer^win32 adheres to more Windows standards that any other pumping test software even though it is not called "Aquifer^win32 for Windows".  The win32 in the name is because Aquifer^win32 was written specifically for 32-bit Windows platforms.  It has never run in DOS or 16-bit Windows and caries with it no limitations from those operating systems.

Another aspect of user-friendly is cutting the learning curve when it comes to using new software.  That is why we are combining slug test analysis, pumping test analysis, step test analysis, pumping test simulations and analytical flow modeling into one application with a common user-interface.  Why learn a number of different applications when one will do?

Maybe the most important aspect of user-friendly is removing confusion. Aquifer^win32 is designed to differentiate among distinct analysis types (slug tests, pumping tests etc) by storing them in different documents.  In this way you won't encounter parameters or operations that have no meaning to the type of analysis you are doing.

Although you may not realize this, there are over 80 different parameters across the analyses supported by Aquifer^win32.  We have developed a unique method of presenting only those parameters that apply at any given time.  If you are performing a simple Thesis confined aquifer analysis you will see the following: