Visual Numerics Announces Availability of the IMSL C# Numerical Library for Microsoft .NET Framework-Based Applications

5 October, 2004

Advanced Analytics for Microsoft .NET Framework-based Applications - IMSL C# Numerical Library.

Visual Numerics Inc., a leading provider of numerical analysis and visualisation software, today announced the immediate availability of the IMSL C# Numerical Library, the only mathematical and statistical libraries written in 100% Microsoft Visual C# .NET for complete compatibility and scalability with the Microsoft .NET Framework. With the IMSL C# Library, developers using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 can create advanced business analytics applications to help organisations gain valuable insight into business data, including previously undetected trends and relationships. Based on more than three decades of Visual Numerics' technical computing and algorithm development experience, the highly reliable mathematical and statistical algorithms found in the IMSL C# Library deliver to developers using Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET a level of analysis previously found only in high-performance computing environments.

Visual Numerics has achieved this increased performance by taking Visual C# .NET to a new level and building on the mathematical framework of the language, significantly increasing the high-performance analytics capabilities available for the .NET Framework. For the first time, developers using Microsoft .NET have the ability to build advanced analytics into applications without having to wrangle with the inefficiencies and difficulties of wrapped code or deal with versioning or component registration challenges.

"Microsoft is pleased that this new offering is available for the .NET Framework. The IMSL C# Library meets the growing need for advanced analytics for business users in a broadly accessible environment. By building on Visual C# .NET to accommodate mathematics for high-end analytics, developers can now build even more sophisticated analytics applications with the level of accuracy and reliability that high-performance computing programmers have had for decades."

Dan Fernandez, Visual C# .NET Product Manager
.NET Developer Product Management Group
Microsoft Corporation

Today's business managers are increasingly called upon to be able to more accurately predict and forecast business performance. To meet this challenge, they are utilising business analytics applications, specifically those capable of performing high-level data analysis. The IMSL C# Library enables developers using Visual C# .NET or Visual Basic .NET to meet these needs using proven code that they can quickly and easily embed into applications. Key benefits of the IMSL C# Library include the following:

• Written in 100% Visual C# .NET, the IMSL C# Library requires a minimal learning curve. Developers can write an application in Visual C# .NET or Visual Basic .NET and seamlessly use the IMSL C# Library as the analysis engine
• The algorithms in the IMSL C# Library interact easily with a broad range of charting and visualisation packages, including Excel, .NET Framework utilities and third party vendors
• The IMSL C# Library, which includes user-friendly nomenclature of descriptive function names, significantly shortens development time and promotes standardisation

"The scale and sophistication of our .NET Framework-based applications are increasing rapidly. Visual Numerics' IMSL C# Library has reduced our development time by providing fully tested and supported analysis tools that expand our advanced analytics capabilities within our Visual Studio .NET development environment. With the IMSL C# Library we will be able to make world-class numerical analysis applications available to business users who need insight into critical information in areas such as marketing, finance, manufacturing and online services, just to name a few."

Professor W.K. Li
Chair Professor in Statistics
The University of Hong Kong

"We are committed to staying ahead of the industry and offering our customers the highest quality, most sophisticated numerical analysis solutions for every mainstream platform. Visual Numerics is proud to be the first company to bring such strong analytics to business users on the .NET Framework, one of today's most accessible development environments."

Phil Fraher
COO
Visual Numerics.

About the IMSL C# Numerical Library

Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET, combined with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, are designed to make programming easier and faster. The IMSL C# Library is written in 100% Visual C# .NET -- it provides fully managed code, and ensures that programs written today will stay in compliance and remain compatible with future applications. Managed code provides interoperability and deployment flexibility for Microsoft .NET-connected applications. For example, a developer can write an application in Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET or any language that is compliant with the .NET Framework and seamlessly use the IMSL C# Library as the analysis engine without having to go through the hassles of wrapping algorithms in unmanaged code. Due to the extreme portability of the .NET Framework, the IMSL C# Library can be shared via the Web while also giving developers the most powerful and comprehensive mathematical, statistical, and finance algorithms available.

About the IMSL Numerical Library Family of Products

The IMSL Numerical Libraries have been the cornerstone of high-performance and deep computing as well as predictive analytics applications in science, technical and business environments for nearly three decades. These embeddable mathematical and statistical algorithms, written in C, C#, Java and Fortran, are used in a broad range of applications -- from programs that help airplanes fly to allowing people to predict the weather, to those that enable innovative ways to study the human genome as well as applications that predict stock market behavior and provide risk management and portfolio optimisation. The IMSL Libraries are regarded as the most sophisticated, flexible, scalable and highly accessible technology available for numerical analysis in the most important mainstream programming environments in use today.

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