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Financial Fate 1 (Windows)

Financial Fate projects all sources and uses of cash flows for the do-it-yourselfer. Detailed reports such as investment plans, balance sheets, tax plans, and cash flow projections are made available to the user with year-by-year and line-item-detail visibility. For example, when forecasting health-care expenses Financial Fate will automatically adjust these...

Tags: Financial, Cash Flow, Microsoft Windows, Financial Modeling Solutions, Financial Fate, Financial Accounting, Taxes, Finance, Financial Planning

Software downloads 2008-09-04

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Stories that warrant watching: SPSS, HP, Acer, Google, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite

Wedding bells for a Chicago software firm Last week, IBM offered to pay $1.2 billion for SPSS, nee Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. SPSS was one of those niche firms with a lot of brilliant folks on board. They possessed a number of slick apps that...

Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., NetSuite Inc., SPSS Inc., SAP AG, Acer Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-03

IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS

IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...

Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Survey: Wall Street looks to cloud technology for its next bailout

Can new technology initiatives help pull Wall Street out of the danger zone? A new survey released by IBM and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association SIFMA finds that IT budgets are tight on Wall Street, but things are loosening up, and there's going to be plenty of demand for...

Tags: Wall Street, Survey, Bailout, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-25

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

News to know: Google and T-Mobile on G1; OpenWorld; SOA; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile G1: Specs, pricing breakdown UPDATED: T-Mobile, Google, HTC unveil G1 (with hands-on pics) Ed Burnette: Google releases Android 1.0 SDK Hands-On with...

Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Semantic Web, Web Services, Research & Development, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Driving Strategic Planning With Predictive Modelling

Uncertainty makes strategic planning complex. Removing, or even mitigating, uncertainty can create unlimited business value. However, most companies lack the strategic planning infrastructure to rise above the unknown. Fortunately, there are solutions to help organizations overcome uncertainty and achieve results. Oracle's business intelligence, financial planning and predictive modeling tools enable...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Modeling, Research & Development, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2008-07-01

Through Better Analysis of Company Operations and Financial Metrics, This Leading Motorcycle Manufacturer Increases the Benefits of Its Forecasting and Planning Solutions

The motorcycle manufacturer wanted to increase cost effectiveness, as well as improve market responsiveness and brand image. Its challenges were its slow speed to market, high inventory levels and high transportation costs. IBM helped this manufacturer overcome many of its challenges by identifying the initiatives that would have the greatest...

Tags: Financial, Benefit, Motorcycle, Analysis, IBM Corp., Forecasting, Transportation, Manufacturing

Case studies 2008-01-01

I've said it before: Microsoft should buy BEA

The dark clouds over BEA are deepening with news that activist Carl Icahn is buying up tangible influence in the software vendor probably with the idea of a sale. BEA faces lingering unknowns on its financial statements -- not to mention entrenched concerns about sales, growth and its ability to...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Programming Languages, Middleware, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-05

Optaros opens OS projects catalog, JBoss Rules 4.0 debuts

With more than 140,000 open-source projects floating around, finding the right one for your company is a daunting task. For IT managers, who usually don't have the vantage point that developers enjoy, the search can also be fraught with danger. Choosing or backing the wrong project can have far-reaching operational,...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, search, Open Source, JBoss, Java, Intellectual Property, Enterprise Java, Developer Tools

Blog posts 2007-07-21

HP Grid Computing for Financial Services Institutions

Across the board, financial markets are witnessing increased speed and staggering growth in trading volumes. This has inevitably led to difficulties in rapidly valuing positions, quantifying risks, identifying opportunities and structuring new products. Financial institutions must be able to revalue positions faster and more accurately and, in some cases, do...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Grid Computing, Financial Services Corp., Financial Accounting, Research & Development, Finance, Business Operations

White papers 2007-06-01

My interview with Borland's Tod Nielsen on the future of development producitvity

Borland Software Corp. has well-earned its place in the pantheon of venerable innovators of software development productivity. The company's sterling product heritage is outdone only by its record of trying to reinvent itself, of making bold moves into new markets. The process continues with the Silicon Valley company's recent news...

Tags: Borland Software Corp., IDE

Blog posts 2006-03-10

IT productivity? Let the good times roll

IT productivity? Let the good times rollGee maybenow that the pace of hardware tech is slowing, we can spend MORE time on SOFTWARE. The extra "time" should be used to take good software and ENGINEER it to become great software! Software engineering - what a concept! Once software development becomes...

Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Intellectual property, OASIS, productivity gain, Information and Communication Technology, software, technology innovation, IT Support, information technology

Discussion threads 2005-08-09

Best Practices in Selecting Performance Management Software

A new generation of sophisticated, Web-based database applications is changing the way companies look at planning and financial reporting. These corporate performance management CPM solutions combine a wide variety of financial functions into a single suite, resulting in one real-time data pool for budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reporting, business modeling, strategic...

Tags: Performance, Best Practice, Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2005-02-01