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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Financial Markets Lab Vienna Wins Computerworld Object Application Award Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com News: For Immediate Release Contact: Rainer Staringer Financial Markets Lab Technical University Vienna Treitlstrasse 3 1040 Wien Austria, EUROPE +43(1) 58801-8137 Email: rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at Financial Markets Lab Vienna Wins Computerworld Object Application Award VIENNA, June 17, 1993 -- The Risk Management System, developed by the Financial Markets Lab (FML) of the Technical University Vienna, has won the grand prize in the top category of the Object Management Group's "1993 Computerworld Object Application Awards Contest." The contest, co-sponsored by Computerworld magazine and the Object Management Group, is designed to salute organizations and developers who have successfully implemented object technology in their operations. The five award categories ranged from "Best Object-Based Application Developed Using Non-Object Oriented Tools" to the top category, "Best Application Utilizing Reusable Components Leveraged from or for Use in Other Projects", where the advantages of object-oriented technology are used to the utmost. The Risk Management System is a NEXTSTEP-based custom application designed and developed by FML for Creditanstalt, Austrias leading bank. Creditanstalt uses the application to monitor and report the risk and performance of portfolios in their securities trading division. "The NEXTSTEP environment allowed us to develop a complex custom application in minimal time through remarkably simple integration with other applications and existing class libraries. Very little extra code was necessary to harness the powerful mathematical capabilities of Mathematica and the advanced layout and report generating functions of Improv for our application. A lot of the functionality in the finished application did not require any programming at all. The risk manager himself dragged user interface items from our custom Interface Builder palette and specified the computations in the form of Mathematica expressions in the corresponding Inspector panels. The savings in development time and unnecessary communication overhead between the domain expert and the programmers were enormous." said Werner Staringer, head of the Financial Markets Lab. The winners were announced yesterday at a special ObjectWorld Expo awards banquet at the Moscone Center in San Franscisco. Steve Jobs, CEO and Chairman of NeXT Computer, was the master of ceremonies. The Financial Markets Lab, based at the Institute of Software Technology of the Technical University Vienna, specializes in financial software. It maintains strong links with the finance industry and is funded primarily through external research contracts. Mathematica is a trademark of Wolfram Research. Improv is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. NEXTSTEP and InterfaceBuilder are trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc.
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