Category: General

Yes, we do have a roadmap and a list of features that will be implemented in future versions.

Please visit the Feature Request Forum from time to time and watch out for announcements.

The default language of the graphical user interface (menus, messages, ...) is English. It can be changed to German,French, Portuguese, and Spanish in or Options dialog.

e!Sankey has been developed only for making Sankey diagrams. Sankey diagrams are one of the visualisation modes of material flows, that are available in Umberto.

Umberto is a fully-fledged material flow modeling software, that allows to model any type of process system, calculate all flows from the process specifications, analyse and display the inventory results. Furthermore you can do a flow cost accounting for the process system and assess the results under environmental and/or economic perspectives, using key performance indicators or valuation systems.

Read more about Umberto, e!Sankey's "older brother" on the Umberto Website.

Only the pro version has the the 'Excel Live Link' feature. All other diagramming features can be found in both versions.

The 'Excel Live Link' is only available in e!Sankey 2.5 pro. It allows to link the flow quantity to a spreadsheet in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The diagram will automatically be redrawn, if a cell value in the spreadsheet is changed.

The standard version e!Sankey 2.0 does not have an Excel feature or interface.

They are named after Captain Henry Matthew Sankey, an engineer from Cork, Ireland who worked in the steam engine improvement. He was the first to publish an energy content diagram, so the type of diagram with arrow width proportional to the flow quantity are named after him. For more Information please see the related Wikipedia article.