But wouldn't you agree that an understanding of finance, software or telecom is what's needed in 2001?
Manufacturing companies need efficient telecoms, insurance, finance and software services to succeed.
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Measuring its collection of apps against the standards of the Open Web Application Security Project or OWASP, Veracode found that only 16% of government web applications were secure, compared with 24% of finance industry software and 28% of commercial software.
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Many externships (particularly those outside software and finance) are unpaid.
They tend to go into industries like finance, biomedical engineering, software and government, Rutter added.
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And as China shifts from a manufacturing to knowledge-based economy, expect it to invest in "knowledge based" sectors like insurance, finance and hi-tech software firms.
The new guard who bought the Cirri may have lacked aviation pedigrees, but they were typically accomplished in fields outside aviation, including computers, software, high finance and real estate development.
And he is looking for people with skills in software development, marketing, finance, legal, and sales (with expertise in packaged goods and retailing).
For cross-site scripting, which allows an attacker to inject his or her own code into a website, 75% of government-written applications were vulnerable, compared with 67% in the finance industry and 55% of commercial software.
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This new usage model is designed for customers running 3D workloads in the engineering, medical, media and entertainment, scientific, software development and economic and finance market segments looking to support additional users on a single workstation.
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And using criteria of the security-focused education group SANS to gauge offline applications, the study found that 18% of government apps passed, compared with 28% of finance industry apps and 34% of commercial software.
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Davis, Kumiega and Van Vliet point out that automated finance unites three professions financial engineers, software engineers and computer engineers but has no one taking ultimate responsibility.
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We see software eating every industry from agriculture to finance.
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Web-based, personal finance management services, similar in purpose to Quicken and Quickbooks software, are increasingly adding travel-related features to their offerings.
By offering fast ananlysis of large amount of data, ScaleOut Software has won clients in such disparate uses as finance, online dating and home shopping.
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That means tech planners need the same kind of big pattern-finding software more commonly used by designers, chief executives, and finance types.
C. who helped finance the Chelsea Piers sportsarama in Manhattan and Media Cybernetics, which sells image-analysis software.
The number of Software-as-a-Service applications available today for managing business functions like finance, HR and more can help startups better handle rapid growth.
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