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SmartFolio 3.0.52 (Windows)

SmartFolio is a state-of-the-art asset allocation software for investment professionals and private investors. It contains advanced portfolio optimization and risk management techniques, based on the latest achievements in portfolio theory. The software combines highly advanced and innovative analytics with a user-friendly, intuitive interface, perfectly suited to any level of expertise...

Tags: Asset, Optimization, Microsoft Windows, Asset Allocation, Modern Investment Technologies, SmartFolio, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-09-04

SmartFolio Professional Edition 3.0.52 (Windows)

SmartFolio is a state-of-the-art portfolio construction software for investment professionals and private investors. SmartFolio contains advanced asset allocation, portfolio optimization and risk management techniques, based on the most recent achievements in portfolio theory. The software combines highly advanced and innovative analytics with a user-friendly, intuitive interface, perfectly suited to...

Tags: Modern Investment Technologies, SmartFolio, Asset Management, Financial Planning, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2008-09-03

Additional Resources

Office 2010 for students excludes Office Web Apps

I have to defend Microsoft hereThey have chosen to play in the price game so that's what you get: a price.You don't get a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Ford Ka now do you?MS has enormous investment costs to recover here. I'm no MS lover but their stock...

Tags: cloud computing, Web application, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

In praise of 'slow IT'

In praise of 'slow IT'Slow IT? We already have that.It's called Microsoft Windows/Office. Not only does Windows totally eliminate the point of dual/quad core processors, it insists on you installing more memory to run it. It might be pretty, but its tooo slow.The problem is probably to do with a...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, praise

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Fax proves a lingering business process communications point in need of automation

This guest post comes courtesy of David A. Kelly at Upside Research, where he’s principle analyst. You can reach him here. Sometimes, no matter how much some things change, others stay the same. Take the example of the fax machine. The first fax patent...

Tags: Business Process, Fax Machine, Esker S.A., Automation, Esker DeliveryWare Solution, Fax, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Remembering whose money it is

Remembering whose money it isIBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems RudyWhat if the rumour is true........ http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H1GS20090318Comon Man!Murph! You there man?!? Stop tying the Ethernet cable as a noose and talk to us.Its not so bad! Really! I welcome you with open arms my brother! The fact that...

Tags: Blogging, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Bedside Terminal Technologies: An Overview

Hospital IT professionals are having an enormous impact on patient well-being and satisfaction because they're equipping patient bedsides with modern devices for vitals monitoring, entertainment and communications. However, architecting a patient information and entertainment solution is complex, and IT departments must decide which technologies best meet patient expectations, clinical initiatives,...

Tags: Patient

White papers 2009-03-01

Worlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worlds

Worlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worldsQuake 3 predates this patent by two yearsQuake 3 would seem to run counter to this patent, as would Tribes, and several other online games from the 90s. The core concepts of such online interactions were also presented in the 90s movie...

Tags: Quake 3, patent, virtual world, patent litigation

Discussion threads 2008-12-30

Oriel Specialist Mathematics and Computing College - a SoftXpand user profile

Recently I had the opportunity to hear from Mark Woolner, someone who is using MiniFrame's SoftXpand every day. I thought that I'd pass on his comments to you. This, by the way, is a follow on post from the post MiniFrame SoftXpand. Oriel Specialist Mathematics and...

Tags: Monitor, Network, PC, Student, MiniFrame SoftXpand, College, Network Point, Desktops, Networking, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell you

Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell youProgress? By definition..."...there are two other significant factors that can impede our progress. The first is the lack of interest among the millennium generation to work on older technologies and the second is the fact...

Tags: Top-Five, legacy application, IT-staff

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past

To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...

Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Linux in schools - what's worked and what hasn't

Linux in schools - what's worked and what hasn'tWe are starting to use linux as wellWe are starting to use linux as well in our private school in Miami. One computer in the teacher loungue and two in the library run Ubuntu 7.10 and Kubuntu 7.10 because the computers hardware...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

CAD/CIM and the SAB software selection

This is a guest column by frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht. It's part of the SAB software discussion and represents exactly what I'd hoped to spawn with this whole imaginary company business: an interesting dialogue. That said, here's Erik: Innovative information technology can be a critical means for...

Tags: Software, Core Competency, Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, Product, Manufacturing, SAB, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-09-06

XenSource Annouces XenEnterprise V4

XenSource announced XenEnterprise V4 on August 13th. Here's a quick review of the announcement highlights:A quick scan of the XenSource announcement reveals that XenEnterprise v4 offers the following new features:XenMotion and Server Resource Pools: Multiple physical systems may be combined into a pool of virtual resources. XenMotion makes it possible...

Tags: Storage, Virtual Machine, XenSource Inc., Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-08-13

Intel readies massive multicore processors

Intel readies massive multicore processorsApplicability: Top 5...PleaseThis is a great milestone for chip development. However, what's the "payoff"? What do you do with a chip that has 80-96 processing cores? It challenging now with the possibility of 8 and 16.I'm not saying that this work is irrelevant...

Tags: Processors, Borkar, Polaris, processor, Intel Corp., FP MAC, memory, multi-core processor

Discussion threads 2007-06-14

Conversation with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic

title Javier Soltero, CEO and co-founder of Hyperic, and I had a fast moving discussion about management of virtualized environments, management architectures, the history of modern computing and came to the conclusion that a well designed architecture offers people freedom to select the best of new technology without fearing that...

Tags: Managing virtualized environments

Blog posts 2007-06-08

Pew Report notes, part three: He shoots, he scores... telling the story that makes a winner

The Pew Internet & American Life Projects report, A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, has raised a lot of questions in the mediasphere in the past couple days. Despite the concerns that social media, or "Web 2.0," are not catching on with rapidly or broadly enough, the report...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Wireless LAN security myths that won't die

Its been two years since I wrote "The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless LAN," and its probably been one of my more successful blog entries ever, with two flashes on Digg. Since that time, Ive written a free electronic book on enterprise wireless LAN security for anyone to...

Tags: LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, security, wireless-LAN security, WLAN, wireless

Blog posts 2007-03-26

SCA/SDO goes to OASIS, could be to SOA what Java EE was to n-tier computing

Seeking to make the Service Component Architecture SCA and its sibling Service Data Objects SDO the basis for a new generation of standardized architecture in the SOA era, the large IT vendors behind the developments have agreed to hand over the specifications for management and maturity to the Organization for...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SCA/SDO, OASIS, SOA, Java

Blog posts 2007-03-21

IBM VC Group propels 'Innovation Ecosystem': Exclusive interview with IBM Strategy Director

As Director of Strategic Insights, Venture Capital Group IBM Corporate Strategy, Drew Clark drives external innovation into IBM business units. Clark is impassioned about propelling emerging technologies into the IBM ecosystem for mutual success and he shared his passion with me yesterday in a lengthy discussion about the mission...

Tags: Business Models, ecommerce, IBM, Internet Data, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-02-15