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ROI: Five Components Of An Effective Calculation
White Papers This paper examines five key factors that are critical to successful ROI calculation: people, processes, technology, data quality/data integrity, and metrics. With the recent economic slowdown, disastrous accounting scandals, and the looming threat...
[October 28, 2007, 23:00]
Leading Reinsurer Deploys New Calculation Engine For Effective Premium Pricing
White Papers RVK is Switzerland's largest reinsurer in the health insurance market. The organisation delivers services for 49 small and medium-sized health insurers and their 800,000 customers. The ability to balance premium prices with the cost of service...
[December 31, 2006, 23:00]
Portobello Reduces Production Cost Calculation Time From Six Hours To 15 Minutes
White Papers Portobello S/A, founded in 1979, leads the Brazilian ceramic flooring industry. The company based in the city of Tijucas in southern Santa Catarina State, exports to more than 65 countries. The challenge was to expand IT infrastructure to support...
[July 11, 2007, 0:00]
Parallel Processing Of Matrix Operations On The Pulsyr Configurable Architecture
White Papers The paper describes the application of a Pulsating information arrays (Pulsyr) for parallel calculation of matrix operations. The Pulsyr architecture suits well image and video processing and pattern recognition problems, but parallelism inherent...
[March 3, 2008, 23:00]
Major Bug In MS Excel 2007
Blog Comment Looks like we won't be getting any more info from Redmond http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/10/09/calculation-issue-update-fix-available.aspx It was code that we introduced as part of the calculation overhaul that we did for Excel 2007 however.
[October 11, 2007, 16:45]
Calculating Duration Via The Lagged Values Of Variables
White Papers Duration calculation is common in many SAS programming tasks. As most books and papers about SAS have not fully explored the LAG function in the context of duration calculation, the author now wishes to leverage the LAG function and offer a...
[June 2, 2007, 0:00]
A System To Calculate Market Value-at-Risk Using Oracle
White Papers SAS/IML is used with Base SAS and Oracle to produce a system to calculate value at risk with the flexibility to reflect changes in the database in the calculation and reporting. The overall process is covered and aspects of the calculation are...
[December 26, 2006, 23:00]
IBM, Screensaver To Tackle Smallpox
News Partners in the effort include UnitedDevices, a company founded by SETI@home organisers; Accelrys, which specialises in pharmaceutical and chemical calculation software; and Evotec OAI, which provides drug discovery services.
[February 5, 2003, 8:21]
UK's Top Firms Misjudge Millennium Work
News A millennium compliant date may be moved to a different field to be used in a calculation, and that calculation may not be done in a Year 2000 [compliant] way," he said. The computer systems and services group was commissioned to act as a "second...
[November 19, 1998, 16:26]
How To Get A Supercomputer For Free
News Intel Pentium chips and AMD's Athlons have feature called SIMD, which lets them perform a calculation on several lots of data simultaneously. In the vector processor used by NEC's SX-6i, a calculation can be performed on 256 bits of data in...
[February 24, 2003, 16:32]
Accenture To Launch 'Green Data Centre Calculator'
News Trends can be built into the calculation such as the price of electricity, capacity costs and future carbon costs. The total cost of carbon offsetting can also be included in the calculation. Data centres are computational workhorses which can...
[January 31, 2008, 7:29]
Operators Blame Roaming Charges On Handset Subsidies
News You can't just reduce the cost of roaming calls down to a simple calculation. The calculation takes into account the cost of terminating a call — an average of 12c/min for calling a mobile and 1c/min for calling a landline — and originating it, and...
[February 23, 2007, 11:49]
Grid Workflow Software For A High-Throughput Proteome Annotation Pipeline
White Papers This calculation presents challenges both in terms of the scale of the computational resources required (approximately 1.8 million CPU hours), as well as in data and workflow management. The goal of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Project is to...
[December 7, 2005, 23:00]
The Benefits Of Data Standardization: A Case Study In Solid Waste Management
White Papers Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to standardize recycling calculation rates for Solid Waste Management (SWM). This paper explains Recycling Measurement, a tool developed by the U.S. Included herein are sections containing a definition for...
[July 19, 2003, 0:00]
Assessing ROI For Content Management Systems
White Papers This paper provides cost calculation tools and related benefits assessments that help determine the return on investment (ROI) of enterprise content management systems. We provide a spreadsheet summary to help tally direct cost savings when...
[July 21, 2003, 0:00]
Impact Of Interference Model On Capacity In CDMA Cellular Networks
White Papers An overwhelming number of models in the literature use average interference for calculation of capacity of a CDMA network. This paper shows how to calculate the actual per-user interference and analyze the effect of user-distribution on the...
[July 25, 2004, 0:00]
Simple Mortgage Calculator
Downloads It provides basic mortgage calculation functions and amortization schedules on mobile phones for real estate professional and loan agents. Simple Mortgage Calculator by Mindswell is a tool used on J2ME phones.
[April 9, 2008, 13:16]
MathSoft Taps IntraLearn Software For Web-Based Training
White Papers MathSoft, Inc.the provider of the broadest line of technical calculation and analytical software for business and academia, has created an innovative Web site for product training and online education, the MathSoft Learning Site at http://learning...
[July 21, 2004, 0:00]
EZplot
Downloads EZplot is an extensive plotting package and data calculation tool for Excel. The EZplot program was developed for a large aircraft engine manufacturer in order to address the enormous amount of time that was spent creating plots and calculations.
[April 8, 2008, 9:17]
Introduction To MDX Scripting In Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Beta 2
White Papers Analysis Services offers a powerful server-based calculation engine. It's a spreadsheet on steroids that can do virtually anything. This paper describes how Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 can be applied to...
[March 6, 2005, 23:00]
