However, he argues that the return on investment for a company like IBM or a similarly large business can be so substantial merely from utilizing software to get real-time visibility into their currency exposure.
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Today, evidence-based medicine is accessible for clinicians and linked to software that provides real-time, high-quality clinical decision support, which leads to increased accuracy, better patient care, streamlined documentation and the elimination of costs formerly related to manual inefficiencies.
Summit Energy has developed a software-based, real-time energy management solution that allows users to save energy.
This segment offers handheld and portable devices, and related software that can deliver real-time location data and directions to specific destinations.
While IGT may have fallen behind in coming up with flashy new games, the company manages to keep its customers in line by dominating the back room with accounting software that keeps a real-time record of the money that's being won and lost on each slot machine.
Other software works on ways to transform applications while minimizing risks like compliance or dependence on the software by a remote department, then put it in a cloud environment, untied to any particular server if that is appropriate. (This stage is where the Microsoft part comes in.) Afterward, there is a security assessment, checking software for security attacks in real time.
Despite the slick real-time 3D interface, Play says that the software doesn't require a 3D graphics card.
Aetna tested the software of the three main real-time on-line training suppliers for six months (see box).
My own employer, SAP, has reinvented itself from back-office ERP software purveyor to become a real-time platform company delivering break-through technologies that are transforming business.
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Sensors out in the field monitor all the traffic area and report back to the box, and the software provides users with a real-time, graphical view of what's going on inside their network.
New compression software offers 5x compression in real-time.
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At the same time investment into real estate has tripled, while both software and financial flows have more than doubled.
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For extreme overclocking enthusiasts, they can use their mobile phone to monitor frequency, temperature and voltage parameters in real time while their computer is running full-screen testing software.
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Essentially, the software culls and indexes data in real-time.
Roundbox, a leading mobile software provider, is providing non-real time data services that power the Smartphone coupon application, as well as the Electronic Services Guide (ESG) for both innovative applications for ATSC MDTV.
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The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple, including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
His two-year-old Seattle startup makes software that tracks gift-card balances in real time and blasts e-mails about looming expirations.
Her software, which helps children understand facial expressions in real time by carrying a small computing device with them, eases the transition from computer interaction to human interaction.
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The trouble with this approach to the relatively slow interconnection of the processors, latency and lack of real-time security is that there are synchronization and communication challenges, software programming complexities and other issues that are exacerbated in a cloud computing environment.
Even as Baron beefed up his radar business, his weather geeks were racking up patents on software that could interact with gps systems to deliver real-time forecasts to mobile customers.
They are developing software to help grid managers make sense of all that real-time data, and even to forecast problems before they occur.
In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration.
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New software goes beyond passive recording to alerting law enforcement about suspicious activity in real time.
"Software advances are helping to drive exciting new applications like non-real-time mobile DTV broadcasts, " said Peter Mataga, chief technology officer at Roundbox.
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Future iDevice interfaces may also be leveraged for Apple to enhance its upcoming iOS mapping software with cloud-based crowd-sourced info for more reliable real-time traffic information.
In a speech earlier this year, he cited the importance of precision-target advertising, real-time search functions, e-commerce, revenue-sharing with third-party software and games developers as well as payment for digital content.
Arista also offers network monitoring software, LANZ, which watches networks and tracks sources of congestion in real-time.
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Because UCB develops our own proprietary software system, every box we purchase is tracked and reported online in real-time.
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Even though this community formed around a piece of commercial software, the relationships within it are real and the result of a significant investment of time and energy and trust.
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