For the Camera Data without application means nothing. That's why Visual Numerics, Inc. decided to make sense out of numbers. So we built an application system that helps people analyze the data. But most people doing some kind of trading operation or numerical intensive work are using our software.
Case compares the emerging market of financial engineering to science engineering.
Whereas engineers at the build programs that model weather patterns, the financial engineers build programs that model the behavior of the financial market. The seventh largest investment house runs its trading system, written in the C programming language, on a Sun Microsystems workstation. CNL's statistics and optimization routines are used to select stocks, perform calculations and display performance over time. The optimization procedure lets users create a portfolio that will have a high correlation with a specific stock so it may be used for risk management. I turned to CNL when I was looking for pre-built routines that could be embedded directly into my system.