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GreyStone Real Estate Investor (exe): Through a user-friendly menu system, GreyStone gives you access to a wide array of key financial metrics (up to 30 years) for real estate investment analysis. Simply enter property data (such as purchase price, rent, loan rate) and the program automatically generates investment outputs including NPV, IRR, ROI, Cash Flow,...; Tags: Rent, Risk Analysis, Investor, Analysis, GreyStone Real Estate, Strategy, Management; Software downloads 2008-01-21
Single Instance of SQL Server 2005 Supports 120-Node Grid Computing for risk analysis: Banks and other financial institutions around the world use SunGard BancWare ALM to run complex modelling to determine their risk in managing assets and liabilities. There are so many variables to consider that SunGard customers typically deploy BancWare ALM using several computers networked together - with the application and database...; Tags: SunGard Data Systems Inc., Microsoft SQL Server, Risk Analysis, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Productivity, Databases, Processors, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Case studies 2007-11-13
A risk analysis of Disk Backup or Repository Maintenance: The paper discusses a simple model of disk backups and other maintenance processes that include change to computer data. The paper determines optimal strategies for scheduling such processes. A maximum entropy model of random change provides a simple and intuitive guide to the process of sector based disk change and...; Tags: Disk, Risk Analysis, Backups; White papers 2006-06-19
RiskyProject (exe): RiskyProject is advanced project management software with integrated risk analysis. Project managers can use RiskyProject for planning, scheduling, quantitative risk analysis, and performance measurement of projects with multiple risks and uncertainties. RiskyProject allows managers to improve their ability to predict the course of projects and determine how risks and uncertainties...; Tags: Risk Analysis, RiskyProject, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management; Software downloads 2006-04-21
RiskyProject Lite (exe): RiskyProject Lite is project management software with integrated risk analysis. RiskyProject Lite helps project managers to plan the project and determine how risks will affect project schedules. RiskyProject allows the manager to create project schedule and risks or import them from other project management software, perform quantitative risk analysis, and...; Tags: Risk Analysis, RiskyProject Lite, RiskyProject, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management; Software downloads 2006-04-19

risk analysis Using the DuPont Model: Talking the Language of the Business Using Financial Models for risk analysis: This whitepaper outlines the importance of understanding the financial impact of information security risks. The DuPont model is used to describe this because it gives an understanding of the relationship between incidents and how it has an impact on profitability. To use the model knowledge about accounting and financial reporting...; Tags: Information Security, Financial, Risk Analysis, DuPont Co., Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance; White papers 2006-03-01
Build security into your network design with an architectural risk analysis: This sample chapter, taken from Software Security: Building Security In, discusses why it's importance to apply risk analysis methods at the design level of your business applications. By explicitly identifying risk, you can create a good general-purpose measure of software security, especially if you track risk over...; Tags: Software, Security, Network, Risk Analysis, Network Design, Addison-Wesley, Strategy, Management; Book chapters 2006-02-03
Manage Risk and Compliance With IBM Rational Compliance-Driven Development Solutions: Risk and compliance are inextricably linked in modern enterprise risk management. However, most organizations do not have an easy way to quantify these risks and incorporate them in their software development prioritization and management activities. Rational Portfolio Manager centrally catalogues risks and responses. It describes and measures each identified risk...; Tags: Compliance, Risk Analysis, IBM Corp., Software Development, Enterprise Risk Management, Strategy, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Business Security, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2005-08-01
Quantitative risk analysis: Step-By-Step: In this paper, the use of a centralized data table containing reference data and estimating techniques for some of the key variables for determining risks and losses will help to present a stronger case for security improvement to management. A discussion of methods for the valuation of...; Tags: Risk Analysis, SANS Institute, Security, Strategy, Management; White papers 2002-12-01
Bank of Montreal Banks on Sun for risk analysis: BMO Financial Group is one of the largest financial services provider in North America. Their challenge was to give Bank of Montreal's Market Risk Assessment Group the power to run faster and more complex simulations to better evaluate risks of the bank's portfolio. This entails producing more comprehensive, yet more...; Tags: Bank, Sun Microsystems Inc., Risk Analysis, BMO Financial Group, Financial Services, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance; Case studies
Building True Defense With Real-Time risk analysis: One preaches defense and attempts to put it into practice, but has one really achieved the vision of layered security one sells to the management and customers? One deploys automated security tools, but these are individual solutions that cannot interact with each other or give useful insight into the organization's...; Tags: Vigilar Inc., Risk Analysis, Strategy, Productivity, Security, Management; Webcasts
Bank Improves risk analysis and Efficiency With an Intelligent Single View of Customer: Sasfin Bank is a South African bank providing financial services for entrepreneurs. It wanted to create a single view of the customer that would help provide information required for risk analysis, compliance with Basel II regulation, and for making insightful business decisions. To do this, Sasfin took on a top...; Tags: Bank, Regulation, Risk Analysis, Microsoft Corp., Sasfin Bank, Pricing, Basel II, Business Intelligence, Financial Services, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management; Case studies

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Windows 7 ship date? The crowd has spoken...: Last month, I kicked off the Windows 7 release date prediction pool with my analysis on why I think Windows 7 will be released in time for the holiday buying season in 2009, picking July 29, 2009 as my entry. At the same time, I invited readers to add their...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments: As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...; Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack: Microsoft won't be delivering database backup as one of the new features promised for the first "PowerPack" update for Windows Home Server when it ships later this year. The independent "We Got Served" Home Server blog acknowledged the feature cut in a May 9 entry. According to...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What open source teaches publishers: I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...; Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge: In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...; Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released: Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...; Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-15
News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Maple4 FTP Connection (zip): The automated copying or carry of data on FTP Server. By means of FC it is possible to set obviously with what files to work (for example, to copy index.html), or easier to specify the catalogue of sending and transfer. The broad gully of work with FC (all work -...; Tags: Catalogue, FTP Server, Maple4, Servers, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-05-15