APL Borealis and APL2000 are pleased
to present...
"Leveraging the APL Advantage"
Integrating
APL2000 in the Actuarial Environment
November 17th, downtown Toronto, featuring...
Joe Blaze, Blaze SSI Corp. &
APL2000
and
Sonia
Beekman, APL2000
An afternoon of presentations on the
very latest in APL technology
and APL2000 products, with
special focus on Actuarial applications
Location: Hyatt
Regency on King -
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 17th, 12-noon to 4:30pm
Cost: Free; buffet lunch included
***
RSVP: is essential ***
Space
is limited - please contact us to register for this event as soon as possible.
"APL+Win" is a core APL2000 product for the
Windows environment and continues to deliver one of the world's best
development platforms for business applications. Come and see how!
Join us for a delicious lunch and an afternoon of
presentations and discussion on the latest features of today's APL software
development environment and Actuarial software expertise.
Joe Blaze,
Managing Director APL2000, and Executive V.P. of BLAZE SSI Corp. will
demonstrate how his company is continuing the 30-year history of successfully
developing and marketing employee-benefit and actuarial software in the
Joe's presentations will focus especially on commercial
Actuarial applications but will be applicable to all product developers. His
topics will include Monte Carlo
Simulation modelling, multi-threading and Multiple Processor technology for
enhanced performance, IT integration for business applications, and more (see the agenda for details)
Sonia Beekman,
Director of Sales & Marketing for APL2000, will provide an overview of
APL2000 products and services, including APL+Win, APL+Unix/Linux, APL
WebServices and VisualAPL.
RSVP or Further Info: Richard
Procter, APL Borealis, tel:
705-434-1239
Brian
Oliver, APL Borealis, tel: 416-457-7828
email: info@aplborealis.com
AGENDA - Leveraging the APL Advantage - Nov. 17,
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12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM Drop-in Lunch |
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·
Meet APL2000
and APL Borealis |
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Products demos
available for viewing |
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1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Joe Blaze, Managing Director, APL2000 |
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Background Information ·
Academic and
actuarial experiences with APL ·
Building the
commercial APL application systems marketed by BLAZE SSI Corp. ·
Evaluations of
APL vs. other programming technology in 1982, 1992, 2000 and 2005 ·
The APL
Advantage: source code invariance; ease of development and maintenance by
domain experts; excellent performance on large data sets; reduced lines of
code |
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Some Next Big Thing(s)
·
Practical
Element: Quality of Random Inputs; Generating
Random Numbers; Mathematical methods, e.g LeCuyer; Electro-optical methods ·
Practical
Element: Performance: Single-threaded
computation; APL+Win []MF analysis; Implementing parallel computation; Using APL WebServices and the APL+Win
ActiveX Interface for multi-threaded, multi-processor performance gains ·
How many
trials: Convergence or divergence; From Bortkiewitsch to Kolmogorov |
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2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Sonia Beekman, Director of Sales
& Marketing, APL2000 |
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Overview of APL2000 Products and
Services |
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·
APL+Win ·
VisualAPL ·
APL WebServices |
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APL+UNIX / APL+
Linux ·
APL Database
Interface Tools |
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3:30 PM – 4:00
PM Afternoon Break |
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Open discussion
with attendees |
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4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Joe Blaze |
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Adding to the APL Advantage – Choosing the right
tools ·
APL WebServices
to expose APL-based application systems to web-based clients ·
Linking
Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation GUI to APL ·
VisualAPL for
the fully-managed .Net environment ·
n-Tiered
application design, the newest book on APL application system design by ·
Presenting
APL-generated results in the Excel and Pdf formats ·
The APL2000
Forum at http://forum.apl2000.com/ |