There's also a couple of software features that risk being thrown into the gimmick bucket.
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MGM's willingness to risk software piracy is seen as an indication of its wish to pioneer direct-to consumer systems for Hollywood films.
Then Intel, which has worked closely with SunGard on making some of its risk software run in parallel to analyze millions of records, approached to talk about the processing power of the devices it was designing for the new operating system.
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Risk management software is not always good at figuring out how those global links work.
The company recently purchased OpenPages, an software company focusing on risk compliance.
OpenGamma, a startup which has so far received two rounds of funding from Accel Partners and FirstMark Capital, is creating a open-source-based platform for trading and risk analytics software to support front office applications.
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Aziz, who helped write AlgoRisk 2.3, says the limitations of risk-management software are known.
As a result, software houses bear all the risk if, as is usual, a project takes longer than planned.
Many feel that patching tools, a regular and fully automated backup program, and a strong recovery toolset are more effective in dealing with the risk than antivirus software.
"The good thing is that nothing went really seriously wrong--apart, of course, from the economy at large, " says John Bates, general manager of Progress Software, which sells trading risk control systems.
Craig headed up derivatives trading at First National Bank of Chicago, then cofounded a risk-management software outfit, but he took an interest in 2003, when Jim said he wanted to return from Eastern Europe.
Anything deemed "not news" would be forced to submit to a rating system or risk being blocked by software browsers.
As a result, I believe the large capex on health care information technology (here to date largely software) creates a very real risk of balance sheet squeeze which could seriously affect the viability of many hospitals.
These range from microwave ovens and laser light shows to home security systems and medical imaging devices. (CDER even regulates laser pointers but not online presentation software, if ever a true risk to human health).
Big Blue is hooking up with DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) in a pioneering three-year deal to jointly sell an integrated computer system that combines DeCode's unique gene-mining software, which sleuths out genetic risk factors for diseases, with IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) servers and database software.
Our platform captures the common practices and software infrastructure used for front office and risk analysis.
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"The risk is then clear to the end user, and they can then run a second simulator showing how alternative software can be used to mitigate the risk, " explained Mr Wilkinson.
It owes to the sophistication of homegrown software for managing hundreds of metrics that define risk.
Conduct regular risk assessments to reveal hardware, software and individual site vulnerabilities.
To limit such damage, risk managers (employed by the software developers or the merchants themselves) study sales data compiled before the anti-fraud software was implemented.
So when customers buy software products, the transactions are at their sole risk, Shafer explains.
This update in earlier software has 300 new features that are said to reduce risk, slash costs by up to 50%, reduce administrative overhead by up to 80% and lower aggregate support costs by up to 35%.
On long term Nokia is taking the risk of being on the hands of a software company with a not well succeced history on mobile and is wasting one decade of know how on software who would be very usefull on the next disruption of the industry and making it completely attached to microsoft.
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Dean Zarras has been writing software since 1982, focusing on large-scale trading and risk management systems on and off Wall Street.
James Adams is a Senior Analyst at Sageworks, a leading provider of credit risk management, loan loss reserve and stress testing software to financial institutions.
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Soon after Mr. Barrie arrived, he started using three new software systems to comprehensively track and manage the company's currency risk.
In the United Kingdom the London Fire Brigade (LFB) uses software created by business analytics specialists SAS as part of their Incident Risk Analysis toolkit.
If the software converts the file format to something other than PPT, the risk remains that graphic formatting and animations will not run 100% perfectly.
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And William Sharpe, a Nobel prize-winning economist at Stanford University in California, asserts that most of the financial-advice software now being touted to ordinary investors fails miserably to deal with risk.
Of those that realised they were at risk, little more than a third had amended their software, a quarter were working on the problem, and the rest had yet to get round to it.
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