ARM

by Gylling Data Management, Inc.

The Software Solution for Your Research Data Needs
Website: www.gdmdata.com Email: [email protected]
Why Use ARM Software?
 The ARM is software for establishing, managing, and summarizing of herbicide, insecticide, fungicide,
seed/variety, fertilizer, general non-chemical, nematicide, and plant growth regulator research on single
field or greenhouse trials.
 Managing plant science research data saves time throughout the research season while creating trials,
collecting and analyzing data. ARM produces the reports required for successful and timely trial man-
agement. Summary reports include integrated statistical analysis that automatically selects appropriate
analysis of variance according to selected statistical design.
 It is a respected standard throughout the crop production and crop protection industry in more than 70
countries, many companies and hundreds of universities.
ARM designer has worked with crop protection research for more than thirty years, and understands research
needs. We encourage client questions and ideas as GDM does not charge for our support. Many ARM
features are suggestions from our current clients.
ARM Overview
 Trial Size: Up to 999 treatments, assessment data columns, and subsamples per trial.
 Randomize and appropriately analyze trials as random-
ized complete block, completely random, split block by
application, Latin square, non-randomized, factorial, split-
plot, and strip-block (criss cross), Lattice (will decide when
creating trial); Square Lattice, Rectangular Lattice, Alpha
Lattice, Lattice Square (row-column).

 Multi-language: US English, International English, French,

German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Korean,
Japanese.
 Optionally conduct under GLP/GEP compliance.
 Transform data using built-in arcsine square root, log, Abbott’s % of Untreated, Henderson-Tilton or
square root transformations. Average, Count, and Sum Subsamples functions ignore missing data.
 Wide variety of reports with many report options to print to paper, screen, Excel, Word Processor, Adobe
PDF or File.
 Current ARM Features
ARM will make you more efficient and effective in managing your research studies. It can help improve
research quality, and reduce the time required to report results with clean new visual style that is much
friendlier for an infrequent ARM user. Someone familiar with ARM will be immediately productive, since all
ARM commands and ways of working are fully supported in updated ARM versions.

Study List is a table displaying key

information about all ARM studies on
your PC. The new ARM study list
design makes it much easier to view,
search, select, and manage studies.
New features include:
 Split-screen design shows
study details on easy-to-read
form view.
 More filters to find studies of
interest.
 Easily locate trials containing
specific treatment products,
crops, or targets.
 Use new Filters tab to display
list of all unique entries in
each study list field, such as
location or treatment name.
 File management features to archive, move, rename, or delete study files.
 Easily hide or display archived (completed) studies.
 Restore studies to a previous version, to rollback from an accidental change or file corruption caused
by a computer hardware failure. (See Automatic Backups for more information.)
 Launch file tasks from study list, such as printing reports or exporting results.

Tasks and Scheduling

 Study calendar displays scheduled tasks for current
study in an Microsoft Outlook style calendar, with choic-
es of day, week, month, and custom views.
 Master calendar shows scheduled tasks for all trials,
with the same view options as for study calendar.

Study Editors
 Navigation bar shows new study editors, offering a simple
one click method to view each editor.
 Split ARM desktop into horizontal or vertical panels, to dis-
play multiple editors.
 Schedule editor includes a grid view of tasks, to easily in-
sert, move, and copy/paste tasks.
 New task categories of “Assigned to” and “Task length”,
with automatic assessment link to “Assessment Timing” for
identifying completed tasks.
  Assessment editor includes a dockable properties dialog with auto-hide.
 Site description editor fully supports displaying
and printing proportional fonts. Editor uses a new
one row tab list to easily switch between tabs.
 Navigation bar at left lists all site description tabs
in a fixed order (an often requested feature).
 Prompts and entry fields are aligned into logical
columns on site description and protocol descrip-
tion.
 Prompt columns automatically adjust for different
language translation prompt lengths.
 Site and protocol description editors use the
current editor font (Tools - Options - Display), the same as other ARM study editors.

Reports
 Adjusting margins or changing page orientation
on Print Preview dialog automatically repaginates
report.
 New choices to view report thumbnails, zoom,
display pages, and select text on Print Preview.
 Print reports to Adobe PDF files with a single
button click using included PDF writer.
 Tree view of reports and studies on Print Preview
dialog, to easily display a selected report page.
 Automatically create a PDF copy of every printed
report, to keep a permanent electronic record.
 Select treatments, assessment columns, and
data header rows to print with simple mouse clicks.

Automatic Backups
Study list file management features include automatic backup of study files, providing data protection against
hardware problems or accidental study changes.

Help
A new media clips toolbar icon and help menu choice offers easy access to short media clips demonstrating
how to perform typical tasks in ARM. Users should require less training and support to use ARM 9 because of
the interface and help enhancements.

System Requirements
ARM 9 requirements are based on minimum software required to support Microsoft .NET 2.0 runtime, plus
hardware to provide adequate software performance for typical tasks. Recommended system configuration is:
 Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
 1 GHz or faster processor
 512 MB or more of RAM (2 GB minimum recommended for Vista and Windows 7)
 400 MB available hard disk space
 1024 x 768 or higher display resolution
 Mouse or pointing device
 CD-ROM or DVD-ROM to install program and license
 Printer
  Recommend one physically separate drive (USB flash drive, second hard drive, or network drive) for
archiving and backing up ARM studies
 Optional USB connection for Psion Workabout Pro or other data collector
 Print to Excel, Push/Pull, and Report Link features require Microsoft Excel 2003 or newer
 Send To feature requires a MAPI-enabled email program such as Microsoft Outlook

Supported Software Versions Policy

In general, GDM fully supports the current release version of software, and offers limited support for one
previous version. For example, when ARM 8 was released in March 2008 it became the 'current release
version', and ARM 7 became the 'previous version'. Thus ARM 7 became obsolete in 2012 when ARM 9 was
released.
Please note that within a software version listed below, GDM gives free support only for the most recent free
maintenance update. Users should always install the most recent free maintenance update before contacting
GDM for support.
GDM goal is to support our clients using our software. Many software updates result from clients who share
what they wish our software would do, and what new features would be nice to include. We also improve
documentation and error handling based on support calls from researchers using our software.

GDM Free Software Support Policy

** GDM provides free support for installations that meet all 9 requirements described below:
1. The installation is your newest purchased ARM version;
2. The most recent released ARM maintenance update for that version is installed;
3. It is a GDM supported program version;
4. The program was installed from a GDM CD or the GDM website (not an unknown installation from an-
other website, CD/DVD, or company);
5. It is installed on a stand-alone Windows PC (not running from a thin client);
6. The PC is running on current service pack of a supported Windows version (with Word, Excel, and
Outlook to fully support all ARM features);
7. The Windows version was either pre-installed on a purchased PC, or installed from a Windows installa-
tion DVD/CD;
8. The ARM program is run from a Windows user account with all required user rights and permissions for
ARM to work properly;
9. The Windows user account has permission to run the ARM Support Viewer (see Using the ARM Sup-
port Viewer for more information).

GDM charges $150/hour for support on any system that does not meet all 9 conditions listed above. (Minimum
time is 1 hour.)
Examples are for support issues that result from:
 Installing ARM on a Windows image built by corporate IT, or on Citrix or Terminal Server.
 Installing a corporate in-house version of an ARM customization on a cooperator or contractor PC when
a cooperator/contractor version is available.
 Moving required ARM folders that are installed by ARM, such as study definition or program folders.
 There is limited support for GDM software installed on an Apple Macintosh computer, with free support
only for questions about the GDM software. GDM cannot answer questions about Macintosh comput-
ers, Parallels emulator program, or a supported Windows version installed within Parallels.