AIS Releases XESS/Trade Spreadsheet Add-In; Showcased at UNIX EXPO PLUS '96 in NY.CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1996--Applied Information Systems (AIS) has released the XESS/Trade add-in for its XESS XESS X Engineering Software Systems Corp Real-Time Spreadsheet. XESS/Trade seamlessly integrates real-time financial data with the most powerful real-time graphical spreadsheet. AIS will showcase XESS/Trade in booth 2245 at UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). EXPO Plus '96 in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Oct. 8-10. AIS will demonstrate XESS/Trade connected to XESS spreadsheets running on Unix and on Windows NT. AIS will also preview the XESS spreadsheet displaying real-time market data through a browser using a Java spreadsheet applet. The rugged real-time design of the XESS spreadsheet ensures performance and reliability, proven in the most demanding applications - designing airplanes, monitoring spacecraft, deploying troops. Now XESS/Trade unlocks this power for brokers and traders by seamlessly delivering real-time financial market data to the XESS spreadsheet for immediate analysis and display. XESS/Trade connects to the Reuters Triarch 2000 data distribution system with the ability to receive data and to publish result pages. XESS/Trade supports record and page based data, page parsing See parse. parsing - parser (shredding), price cleaning, chained and tiled records, limit minding, triggers, alerts, and real-time graphs and charts. The unique XESS Connections API Toolkit makes it easy to add custom analytic functions to supplement over 250 standard functions. "Over the last six years, XESS has become the premier real-time spreadsheet for engineering and process control," said Arthur Coston, president of AIS. "Now with XESS/Trade, we bring this world-class technology to trading rooms." The XESS/Trade add-in is currently available for SunOS, Solaris, and HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. . It can serve XESS spreadsheets running on most UNIX, OpenVMS, and Windows NT systems. AIS, headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chapel Hill is a town in North Carolina and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), the oldest state-supported university in the United States. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 48,715. As of 2004 its estimated population was 52,440. , is a 23-year-old supplier of software products and solutions targeting multi-vendor integration and advanced client/server applications. XESS is a powerful spreadsheet system for X Windows that can be used either as a standalone application or as a widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. for integration with other applications. It incorporates the OSF/Motif standard as its graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to . As a spreadsheet, XESS includes the fullest range of computational and graphical tools for both financial and scientific/engineering applications. XESS is available for most Unix, OpenVMS, and Windows NT systems. For instant information on AIS's products and services, access the World Wide Web at http://www.ais.com/. CONTACT: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill Anne Hartley, 919/942-7801, info@ais.com |
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