Lab49 is currently working on a few different areas of interest:

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Financial Services

• Lab49's WPF Development practice has been working with clients and technology partners on a number of research and delivery projects.
• Applicability of WinFX in Financial Services. Click here to view Daniel Chait's video on WinFX in finance

Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) in Financial Services

Lab49 has been researching how WWF can help the structured products and credit derivatives market solve their complex credit event processing issues.

Distributed Computing and Cache Networks

Lab49's Large Scale Computing practice has been working on multiple client projects where grid computing, distributed caching and event processing have been key to gaining competitive advantage. Additionally, we have experience in implementing various technology vendor solutions:

• Grid Computing: Datasynapse, Platform, Windows Cluster Server
• Distributed Cache and Data Fabric technologies: GemFire, Gigaspaces, JBoss Cache, ScaleOut Software, Tangosol
• Complex Event processing (CEP) and Event Stream Processing (ESP): BEA Weblogic Event Server, Coral8, Esper, Progress Apama, Streambase

Use of GPUs on graphics cards to enhance local analytics calculations

Damien Morton writes about the use of GPUs on graphics cards to enhance local analytics calculations.

Many of our current thoughts, observations, research and ideas can be followed in the Lab49 Blog