Cloud-based communication, customer development, community building and financial applications help small businesses acquire and manage information quickly and strategically.
Cloud based help desk, CRM and financial applications that used to cost tens of thousands of dollars can now be deployed for a few bucks a month a user.
Mobile phones are becoming payment devices, interacting directly with backend financial services applications to complete transactions.
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That includes everything from simplifying financial aid applications for these families, to increasing career opportunities for these spouses, to expanding childcare options for the children of service members.
Inside, it's a little more tense, as lines of students queue up - financial aid applications in hand - to negotiate how they're going to pay for their education.
Which is not the same for financial management applications.
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In particular, students hoping to use refunds to pay tuition and those relying on finalized returns in order to complete financial aid applications, were angry and took to the internet to complain.
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He expects it will improve time to market for financial-services applications by automating the configuration of testing environments and reducing application-testing times from days to hours.
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More than a million more federal financial-aid applications were filed during the beginning of 2009 than in the beginning of 2008, with a 16.3% increase among dependent students.
These are workloads like cloud gaming, visualization, HPC applications, financial services and facial recognition.
The fund will start taking applications for financial help around September this year, when applicants will start being notified if they have been chosen as volunteers.
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Businesses that need fast access to data--think fast-trading financial institutions or Web applications that access big collections of information--are likely customers for solid-state storage, says Greg Quick, an analyst with the 451 Group.
In a Thursday afternoon presentation titled "Hacking Capitalism" at the Black Hat conference, a gathering of computer security experts, they detailed weaknesses in applications using Financial Information eXchange Protocol, or FIX, a common language used in communications between banks and commercial markets.
You'd think electronic financial trading would be extra secure, but not so much: One of the most popular application-layer protocols in the financial industry leaves these money applications wide open to attack, according to researchers.
Dodd says there are "alternatives" to forcing lawmakers to craft last-minute legislation, such as the Treasury making money immediately available to auto companies, or the Fed approving applications from Chrysler Financial and GMAC to become bank holding companies.
As a result, companies like financial services firms may find their applications are underperforming.
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While it may be tempting to try to build a profitable oil company, think instead of health services, financial professionals, software and gaming applications.
Technology applications for healthcare and financial services are also promising.
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The site says more than three fourths of all financial exchanges surveyed support FIX in their applications, and that most major stock exchanges and investment banks use FIX for their electronic trading.
For instance, IBM is using Java as the technical heart of its San Francisco Project, a set of frameworks for building business applications, such as integrated financial systems, by combining pre-built components such as accounts payable and receivable modules.
Some credit apps may demand a list of customers and other financial information. (Examples of credit applications can be found at the Credit Research Foundation).
In parallel to the consumers conducting millions of transactions online or via mobile applications, a new wave of financial crime and cyber threats have emerged in the banking sector to exploit these new access channels as part of a broader network based threat to banking security.
The company says Moris will be sold only to law-enforcement agencies, although it is considering building applications for the health-care and financial industries.
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It provides global financial and economic data and a variety of analytical applications to investment managers, hedge funds, investment bankers, private equity companies, and other investors.
Standard data mining focuses on structured data and looks at traditional financial forms such as insurance claims and bank account applications to build a risk profile.
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Philips officials said that they expect the line to be popular with financial institutions and other industries that have transaction-based applications.
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Transportation, financial systems, emergency services, utilities, and government applications are just a few examples of services that need absolute availability and robust security.
He sees a big future for what he called "virtual close" -- the ability of companies to assess their own financial health on a daily basis using Web-based applications.
Goldsmith says he can't divulge details on the specific vulnerabilities Matasano found in applications deploying FIX, as well as other financial industry-specific protocols, but the bottom line is that these protocols weren't built with security in mind.
So far, government prosecutors have mostly focused on the lower level contributors to the current financial meltdown, such as mortgage brokers who approved fraudulent applications, and some hedge-fund managers at Bear Stearns who allegedly misrepresented the health of their funds.
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