Risk analysis specialist sees sales revenues jump in Middle East and North Africa
Risk and decision analysis expert Palisade (www.palisade.com) has reported an increase in Middle East and North Africa sales revenue of 241 percent in the first half of 2009, compared to the same period the previous year.
The company has operated in the region since [...]

Investors and decision-makers must demand uncertainty analysis warns Palisade
As the media reports tentative signs that the recession is over and the stock markets start to head upwards again, risk analysis expert Palisade (www.palisade.com) is warning on the false security offered by static forecasts.
With recessions only occurring on average every ten years, despite their potentially devastating [...]

- Craig Ferri, Managing Director at leading Risk and Decision Analysis Software Company Palisade
14 September, 2009, London, UK; The recent turbulence in the global economy has projected the word ‘risk’ into many everyday conversations, both commercial and personal: the unacceptable risks taken by fund managers which led to the collapse of major financial institutions; companies [...]

Leuven, Belgium – July 14, 2009 – IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate first process and a step forward towards fabricating aggressively scaled germanium-pFET transistors.
To scale CMOS technology [...]

Data-Based Decision Making for Uncertain Times
Ithaca, New York and London, UK. Palisade Corporation has just released an enhanced new version of its DecisionTools Suite, the best-selling decision support package available for Excel. Version 5.5 of the DecisionTools Suite is a selection of seven software programs that put the most frequently used methods for objective, [...]

Cambridge University’s Judge Business School is using @RISK from Palisade (www.palisade.com) to advise on climate change. This work involved the risk analysis software forming a key element of the analysis model that supported the Stern Review, the largest and most widely referenced report on the economic impact of global warming.
Dr Chris Hope, reader in [...]

Invitation to free webcast – Friday 2 April 2009
John Lynch, president of JWL Environmental, will give the next presentation in Palisade’s live webcast series:
“The use of The DecisionTools Suite in Probabilistic Cost Estimating for Environmental Asset Retirement Obligations”
2 April 2009
4 to 5pm UK time (11am to 12 noon Eastern Daylight Time)
This free live webcast will [...]

@RISK helps Águas do Douro e Paiva estimate impact of construction of new power sub-station on overall company energy costs and water tariffs
Águas do Douro e Paiva (AdDP, www.addp.pt), a Portuguese water utility company, has estimated the potential financial success of an energy costs reduction project using @RISK, the risk analysis software tool from Palisade [...]

This week has seen the head of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) admit that the watchdog did not focus enough on the excessive risks being taken by banks. In addition a former HBOS employee has confessed that risk managers at the bank were discouraged from challenging business decisions. In light of the current [...]

Qimonda AG (NYSE: QI) announced today that it has arranged a Euro 325 million financing package for the ramp up of its innovative Buried Wordline technology. The package includes a Euro 150 million loan from the German Free State of Saxony, a Euro 100 million loan from a leading financial institution in Portugal and a [...]