Altaira Announces Microsoft Silverlight Interface For Its Cross-Asset Pricing And Risk System.

Online, October 17, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Altaira has announced development of a Microsoft Silverlight interface to its Cross-Asset Pricing and Risk Portfolio System, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment.

As a multi-asset-class Financial portfolio system for front-to-middle-office, pricing, trading and risk-management. Altaira features the following:.

• 100% Microsoft® .NET and C# for rapid application development and easy maintenance

• Microsoft Silverlight for an amazingly rich client interface, either web-based or locally hosted

• Grid computing for outstanding performance and virtually unlimited scalability (scale-up, scale-out)

• Web services for both cross-platform interoperability and full extensibility

• Three-tiered architecture allowing any component (presentation, logic or data) to be upgraded or replaced independently

• Market-standard (public domain) and open-source models by default, but many more can be supported with the client's choice of proprietary or third-party models.

Silverlight delivers an engaging experience through all major browsers on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux client operating systems, and can run on mobile devices such as Windows Phone 7, Nokia Series 60. It hosts a sleek graphics system for rich internet applications (RIA) with support for advanced data integration, multithreading, HD video using IIS Smooth Streaming. Silverlight enables both online and offline applications for a broad range of financial applications.

Built on a 100% Microsoft platform, and now with Silverlight as the presentation tier of the system, the retail, or institutional user can simply run Altaira through any browser without the need to install any software. When running the system through a browser the user will experience live streaming quotes, data, video, messaging, media, and a robust Trading/Pricing/Risk Portfolio application.