Buy-side firms that did run risk management might have used Riskmetrics or Algorithmics, , while others used Excel, a flexible all-purpose tool not designed for specific tasks like risk management.
The 58-year-old says one of his first tasks was to provide stability and to make sure all staff and management felt "integrated", which included making sure those dealing with Under-eights rugby or the England senior men's team were all working together.
EU's original aim of creating a 60, 000-strong force, able to deploy at 60 days' notice for tasks ranging from disaster relief to crisis management, has been all but abandoned.
Instead of having to switch among different tools to do different managementtasks, you now have this variety of plug-ins to do all the tasks with one common interface.