StockSmart teams with LEVEL\5 to help users "Quest" for the best financial data on the Web.MELBOURNE Melbourne, city, Australia Melbourne, city (1991 pop. 2,761,995), capital of Victoria, SE Australia, on Port Phillip Bay at the mouth of the Yarra River. Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, is a rail and air hub and financial and commercial center. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1996-- Quest allows users to perform "best-fit" analysis of Mutual Fund and Stock data LEVEL\5 has announced that StockSmart has integrated Quest Server, LEVEL\5's search-and- discovery technology, into their Web site at http://www.stocksmart.com. Visitors to StockSmart use the fuzzy logic fuzzy logic, a multivalued (as opposed to binary) logic developed to deal with imprecise or vague data. Classical logic holds that everything can be expressed in binary terms: 0 or 1, black or white, yes or no; in terms of Boolean algebra, everything is in one set or and concept mapping capabilities of Quest to search among thousands of mutual funds. Quest makes it possible to find the winning funds that best fit the personal criteria and investment strategy of each visitor. The companies also plan to offer investors the opportunity to "Quest" the larger stock market and corporate background information databases available at StockSmart. LEVEL\5 will demonstrate the StockSmart site, along with other best-of-breed financial Web sites that utilize Quest, at Fall Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the World, December 10 - 13 at the Jacob Jacob (jā`kəb), in the Bible, ancestor of the Hebrews, the younger of Isaac and Rebecca's twin sons; the older was Esau. In exchange for a bowl of lentil soup, Jacob obtained Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, received the blessing Javits Center 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 (Booth 569). Quest uses its unique proprietary technology to identify the funds that best "match" an investor's complex mix of preferences. Investors drive the analysis by setting target criteria and by indicating how much the criteria matter to them. Among the criteria available are: the rankings earned by each Fund based on performance; actual rates of return; composite returns of the fund family; and expenses. In this way, investors can see which funds demonstrate an established track record of success, and suit their unique set of personal preferences and risk profile. Quest recently won the Internet Open in the Database Category at the Internet Commerce Expo, demonstrating another financial application which was developed for Baltimore, Maryland "Baltimore" redirects here. For the surrounding county, see Baltimore County, Maryland. For other uses, see Baltimore (disambiguation). Baltimore is an independent city located in the state of Maryland in the United States. based HR Investment Consultants, publishers of the 401K Plan Provider Directory. LEVEL\5 will also be highlighting this financial application at Fall Internet World. Also at Internet World, LEVEL\5 will introduce Quest Server for the 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). platform, making it available for use on over 60% of the Internet servers in the world. In addition, LEVEL\5 will introduce a new Preferred Partner Program for resellers, which was designed to make it easier for Resellers, VARs, Integrators and ISPs to sell Quest products. The new Preferred Partner Program includes a lower street and dealer price, along with marketing and sales support, sales leads A sales lead is the identity of a person or entity potentially interested in purchasing a product or service, and represents the first stage of a sales process. The lead may have a corporation or business associated with the person(s). and Web Site links. Founded in 1984, LEVEL\5 (http://www.l5r.com) spearheaded the birth of desktop expert systems with LEVEL\5 Object. Today, in addition to the Quest product line, LEVEL\5 continues to apply intelligent technologies to data access management. For example, SmartMode provides the world's only intelligent agent firewall, protecting critical corporate data resources from runaway ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. access, and SiteAnalyzer provides data access traffic monitoring and data usage pattern analysis. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: In the Internet/email address noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol between doug and L5R.com. Also, in the World Wide Web address noted in this news release, there is a double slash between http: and www.stocksmart.com; and between http: and www.15r.com. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: LEVEL\5 - Level Five Research, Melbourne Doug Taylor, Marketing Manager Ph: 800/444-4303, 407/729-6004 Internet: doug@L5R.com Web Site: http://www.l5r.com |
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