Kamakura to Use Rogue Wave Software Technology to Enhance Cross-Platform Compatibility of Kamakura Risk Manager Solution.BOULDER, Colo. -- Rogue Wave rogue wave n. An unpredictable, abnormally large wave that occurs on a seemingly random basis in the oceans. Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX) providing reusable software components and services that facilitate application development, today announced that Kamakura, a leading provider of risk management information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. and software, will employ Rogue Wave(R) SourcePro(R) Core and SourcePro(R) DB solutions in its Risk Manager software to provide cross-platform support for Sun Solaris(TM) and Microsoft(R) Windows users. Under the three-year agreement, SourcePro Core and SourcePro DB will provide cross-platform support for Kamakura Risk Manager users, increasing the application's portability across databases and platforms such as Solaris and Windows. SourcePro DB will enable the Risk Manager solution to deliver database support across multiple databases, including Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. . By using the portable SourcePro components, Kamakura will save valuable resources required to build this functionality for individual clients. "Rogue Wave's technology is integral to supporting the large volume of transactions processed by our clients -- often totaling more than 30 million transactions per day. These high volumes of transactions make the database access and performance in our customers' software applications vital," said Warren A. Sherman, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Kamakura. "Rogue Wave tools have been instrumental in allowing us to easily customize our solution for our clients, regardless of platform, for several years." Kamakura's Risk Manager is an enterprise-wide risk management solution for financial institutions. Kamakura offers integrated credit risk, market risk, asset and liability management and performance measurement in a single piece of software. The enterprise-wide model allows for simpler integration, input and output and eliminates the need to reconcile differences between data models using different measures of risk. Risk Manager's modular structure allows users to customize Risk Manager to meet the specific platform support and risk functionality needed. "As companies in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. sector rely on increasingly complex applications to perform business processes, the ability to reuse existing business logic helps reduce the cost of keeping pace with customer demands," added Cory Isaacson, president, Rogue Wave Software. "Because these companies can't afford to sacrifice performance or to trust their core business systems to unproven unproven Dubious, nonscientific, not proven, quack, questionable, unscientific adjective Relating to that which has not been validated by reproducible experiments or other scientific methods for determining effect or efficacy solutions, Rogue Wave(R) products play a critical role in ensuring that key applications run at peak performance and at capacity levels that give them a competitive edge. Our relationship with Kamakura reinforces our strategy to provide Wall Street customers with the tools they need to grow their businesses and keep their customers happy." SourcePro Core provides a broad range of foundational native code components to increase compatibility of existing applications and services and aid in the integration and development of new ones. All of the components in SourcePro Core are portable across industry-leading operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and compilers. SourcePro Core handles the intricacies of complex tasks like threading, string handling, and internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation , freeing developers to focus on the business logic that powers their organizations systems. Rogue Wave SourcePro DB is a complete solution for object-oriented relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. access in C++. SourcePro DB's layered architecture An architecture in which data moves from one defined level of processing to another. Communications protocols are a primary example. See OSI model. simplifies writing database applications, while preserving the ability to access native database client libraries for maximum performance. SourcePro DB allows for the creation of applications that are reusable with databases from various vendors. About Rogue Wave Software Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), provides reusable software components and services that facilitate high-performance application development. More than 300,000 developers at some of the world's leading companies have used Rogue Wave(R) products to develop enterprise-level applications. Rogue Wave Software operates throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit http://www.roguewave.com. About Kamakura Kamakura Corporation is a leading provider of risk management information, processing and software. Kamakura has been a provider of daily default probabilities for listed companies listed company n → compañía cotizable listed company n → société cotée en Bourse listed company list n → since November 2002. Kamakura launched its private firm modeling product in January 2004. Kamakura is also the first company in the world to develop and install a fully integrated credit risk, market risk, asset and liability management, and transfer pricing Transfer pricing refers to the pricing of goods and services within a multi-divisional organization, particularly in regard to cross-border transactions. For example, goods from the production division may be sold to the marketing division, or goods from a parent company may be system. Kamakura has clients ranging in size from $3 billion in assets to $1 trillion in assets. Kamakura's risk management software is currently used in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, China and many other countries in Asia. Rogue Wave and SourcePro are registered trademarks of Quovadx, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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