Finance

• Cognition Corporation
  Application: Cost Advantage™
  Cost Advantage™ is a powerful Design for Manufacturability (DFM) expert system powered by Allegro CL. The system captures manufacturing process knowledge and leverages that information to identify and reduce costs at every stage of a product's life cycle.

• PricewaterhouseCoopers
  Application: Comet and Planet
  Comet is a knowledge-based audit planning application. The application helps PricewaterhouseCoopers audit professionals decide which audit procedures should be undertaken at a particular company, so that the audit is both effective and efficient. The Planet application is helping PricewaterhouseCoopers dramatically reduce the time required to plan an audit.

• Wisdom Technologies, Inc.
  Application: CFO Strategist
  CFO Strategist is a unique application that brings state-of-the-art expert system technology to the real-world financial problem of cash management. Designed by and for treasurers, CRESUS is the only cash management program which helps automate the financial corporate treasury decision-making process, saving time and money.

• RavenPack International S.L.
  Applcation: RavenPack News Analysis
  RavenPack has successfully built a sophisticated system that pushes the state of the art in computer processing of unstructured news content. A leading provider of real-time news analysis services, financial professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts of news content on more than 28,000 publicly traded companies across 80 countries. Financial institutions use RavenPack's news analysis services to generate better returns by systematically incorporating the effects of news in their investment process.