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Software engineer, systems analyst 'least stressful' jobs in America

If you're a software engineer or computer systems analyst, relax -- you have one of the least stressful jobs in America. But you were already relaxed, weren't you? Job search portal CareerCast today announced its list of the most and least stressful jobs in...

Tags: Software, Job, Actuary, Analyst, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Firm Cuts Insurers' Modeling Time Nearly 95 Percent With High-Performance Solutions

IHA Consultants, a small IT consultancy, helps healthcare and property/casualty insurers by providing Web-based stochastic solutions for advanced actuarial modeling. The company's Stochastic Actuarial Reserve and Trend Model solutions use Microsoft High-Performance Computing HPC technologies to develop financial reporting and forecasting models that are not possible using nonstochastic methods. With...

Tags: Solution, Actuary, Insurance Company, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Research & Development, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

Case studies 2008-11-18

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Software and business method patents take a hit

Software and business method patents take a hitIf you want to see technology take off...completely do away with patents and copyrights. Once you free new technology to be improved by all and not just its owner, technology will finally reach its potential.Good news for technology consultantsThe biggest winners from...

Tags: Patent Reform, software, patent

Discussion threads 2008-11-01

Actuary Speeds Calculations by Factor of 10 With Windows-Based HPC Cluster

Mercer, a global pension consulting firm, developed a new actuarial valuation system that required a sharp increase in numerical computations. By adopting High-Performance Computing HPC with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Mercer improved calculation speeds by a factor of 10. The new HPC system enhanced the functionality of Mercer's retirement...

Tags: Valuation, Mercer, Microsoft Windows, Payroll Solutions

Case studies 2008-07-01

AdvaMed says of health care inflation, not me

We have reached the stage in the health care debate where everyone is pointing the blame, and pointing it elsewhere. It's like the Family Circus Not Me. Who did it, Billy? Not me. In this case the Not Me is a study, from AdvaMed,...

Tags: Device Manufacturer, Insurance Company, Health Care, Inflation, AdvaMed, General Device Inflation, Insurance, Government, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Regulations, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-14

New MS tool isolates Office 2003 zero-day exploits

New MS tool isolates Office 2003 zero-day exploitsStrips out macros and VBA???Talk about making something useless.Kludgy is better than nothing, I guessOur MS rep said he hadn't heard of the Office zero-day vulnerability issues, but luckily MS must have. Now if they can just refine this solution so it's...

Tags: tool, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2007, zero-day bug, Microsoft Office 2003, New MS tool

Discussion threads 2007-05-10

Steve Jobs blasts teacher unions and textbook industry

Steve Jobs blasts teacher unions and textbook industryUnion ProblemsThis is just another case where unions do more to harm the industry than help. The fact of the matter is, every teacher in the world is a teacher because they WANT to teach - the pay isn't and won't be...

Tags: Benefits, Steve Jobs, education

Discussion threads 2007-02-18

Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questions

Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questionslock them upand close the doors!What can you expect from such crooks?45 companies, which risk disclosure and securities fraud violations........That says something about American business.........Ask yourself this.........do we have 45 budding ENRONS out there just waiting to screw their employees or better yet their...

Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, stock price, stock, stock option, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-16

Getting the premium you deserve

Getting the premium you deserveThis is a severe violation of one's privacyI have no problem enforcing good driving or stricter driving standards like they do in Germany, but letting the insurance companies do this is opening the Pandora's Box. What next, make people wear diagnostic instruments that check their...

Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, insurance

Discussion threads 2005-02-28