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Quantifi is a financial software company.

We develop trading and risk management solutions

for the financial markets.

One of the biggest challenges that banks

face in the marketplace is the risk

that a counterparty may default. For a mid-sized bank,

calculating the counterparty exposure

can require over 25 trillion trade repricings.

Each trade repricing can in itself be quite complex.

We tested our aggregation model.

The test data we use is a real world data

based on a single counterparty with several thousand trades.

The aggregation model calculates the total exposure

for that counterparty using three different ways.

Running this test, we found that the Intel Xeon Platinum 8180

processor is 1.47 times faster than

the equivalent previous generation

processor with the same memory.

To take advantage of multicore processors,

we use Intel threading building blocks.

That allows us to speed up and optimize

the core parts of our system, and allows

them to run faster on the higher core count of newer processors.

So one of the great things about Intel TPB

is how well it's integrated with Intel's other tools,

including Intel Parallel Studio.

That means you can analyze the performance as you tune it.

We can improve the performance of each trade using

vectorization.

Vectorization allows one instruction

to operate on multiple data at the same time.

Running our code with vectorization enabled

and disabled, we saw that we got an increase of up to 35%

in performance, depending on the core count.

We use [INAUDIBLE] amplifier to help measure

the performance in terms of utilization of cores,

and in terms of vectoization within each thread.

That allowed us to find individual bottlenecks

and steadily improve performance over time.

Our clients have been ecstatic with the results we provided.

Working with Intel, we've been able to provide them

with software that provides more accurate results,

and also reduces their hardware costs.

This has a very big impact on their business.

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Can you use GoCardless with your existing finance software? - Duration: 2:09.

Can you use GoCardless with your

existing finance software?

The simple answer here is yes.

GoCardless integrates with the leading

UK accounting software systems,

like Xero, Sage, QuickBooks,

Kashflow, Zoho and many more.

This means you can process

Direct Debit payments

from within your existing account

bringing you many benefits to your company.

In today's video we're going to cover

the three key benefits of integrating GoCardless

with your existing accounting software.

Firstly, it reduces late payments.

With Direct Debit, payments are directly taken

from your customers account when

payments are due.

This means no more waiting for bank transfers or

amendments to standing orders.

Also with Direct Debit the amount, the date and

the frequency can be amended without your

customer having to do anything.

Secondly, with GoCardless working with

your accounting software system

you can automate payment reconciliations.

Payments are received through a live feed and

are automatically reconciled

versus your outstanding invoices.

This saves you many hours

meaning you can use that time

to do higher level work for your business.

And finally, you can get a clear,

predictable view of cash flow.

With GoCardless payments

automatically reconciled and received,

you can get a streamlined cash collection

and a real-time view of income and cash flow.

So to sum up, by integrating

Direct Debit payments with GoCardless

in your accounting software.

You can one, reduce late payments.

Two, automate payment collection

and reconciliation.

And three, get a streamlined view of cash flow.

We also integrate with other

business management tools.

For subscription and billing, we

integrate with Chargebee and Zuora.

For CRM tools we integrate with

Salesforce and Sellsy.

And for member management tools,

we integrate with Virtuagym and Fonteva.

To find out more

please visit gocardless.com/partners

or click the link below.

For more infomation >> Can you use GoCardless with your existing finance software? - Duration: 2:09.

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Designing software from the end-user's perspective | Sharon Grosser - Duration: 2:39.

You can build beautiful, fancy, wonderful technology

but if I don't like it, you're making me miserable.

As a teacher myself, over many years experience, I could feel their pain

and I learnt a lot along the way about how to understand

what our customers really want in a product.

Hi, I'm Sharon Grosser.

For 14 years I was a secondary school teacher until my husband, Grant, and I

decided to quit our jobs and start SEQTA, a software company

dedicated to reducing teachers administrative workloads.

I think our success is based on understanding and delivering

what our clients really wanted in their software

and these are my top three tips on how to do that.

Feel the client's pain.

One of the main factors in the birth of SEQTA

was realizing that the existing software teachers were using in schools

to manage their workflow was dreadful.

But it was an opportunity for us because we had a lived experience

of the pain that teachers were feeling.

We understood in detail what was wrong with it and how to come up with something better.

Design from the end user's point of view.

I was an English teacher, I didn't like computers,

I didn't feel I needed to change because I'd been teaching very happily

and successively for many years, thank you very much.

That was my attitude and the attitude of many others.

We didn't fight that.

Instead, we focused on designing the software from the teacher's point of view.

It was all about their workflows

and letting teachers do their job the way they'd always done it.

Yes, with technology, but with technology that was intuitive

that looked and felt like the paper-based systems that they'd always been using.

Embed the end user in your business's culture.

So our customer is really the school.

The business manager or the Principal or the IT manager,

they're the people that make the decision to purchase the software

but they're not really the end-users.

So in a way, we were building for people who were powerless.

In the early days, we mainly employed X teachers.

Today this isn't really feasible, but our focus is still on looking after teachers.

Our culture emphasises that no matter what you're doing in the business,

it's because you want teachers to be empowered, creative and engaged.

If I had to give one piece of advice about designing software

from the end user's perspective,

it's never assume that you know what your users want.

You have to keep talking to them.

Keep checking your assumptions by asking your clients

if each new feature or iteration is solving their problem.