If something bad happens, it causes an exception to occur and it gets passed on up explicitly, which promotes very good behavior on the part of programmers. Java technology enables me to grow a development team much more effectively than other languages. Time Is Money One of Athena Design's customers, a large European bank, is extending its use of Integer to its Euro currency trading. The system captures the ongoing real-time knowledge of the company and makes it immediately and simultaneously accessible to all traders. Traders can, for example, quickly access the value of 30-year futures of Euros as compared to dollars.
Currency traders build formulas that include various mixes of dollars, yen, gold, oil, etc.
In gaining access to all the firm-wide positions at any one time, they can discern the business logic as well. This can powerfully impact the bottom line for traders making quick, complex decisions based on updated information. The difference between spending 30 seconds and 4 seconds to recalculate a bank's position on a particular financial instrument in one trade can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Flexible User Options Users are able to see spreadsheet data in the form that best suits them. Integer includes a spreadsheet engine that is typically server-based, but able to run on the client.