Daniel and Luci,
Craig Bauling here.
Thanks for your comments about the differences between Mathematica and Finance Platform. Posting on the Community is a great way to start a dialogue about topics like this, and your post has already caught the attention of the marketing team.
There are a number of key features that differentiate Wolfram Finance Platform from the other Mathematica licenses. While the Bloomberg link gets the most attention, there are other key features that uniquely support our Wolfram Finance Platform customers. The two I think are most beneficial are:
- A large set of dedicated GPU parallelized functions that serve the Financial marketplace, and
- The inclusion of the Enterprise license functionality.
Regarding 1), your computations take less time to process without needing your development team to create advanced functions. This saves time in development as well as during processing.
Regarding 2), the built-in Enterprise functionality allows users to create interactive reporting systems and to create models with advanced CDF features. Wolfram Finance Platform users can deploy CDF applications that allow non-Mathematica users to import their own datasets, interact using textual inputs (as opposed to only sliders, checkboxes and radio-buttons), and in the end, either publish reports or export the results in various file formats; without your users having to have Mathematica or to know Mathematica code.
The result is that we are seeing a lot of excitement around the Wolfram Finance Platforms functionality and its ability to support business reporting systems.
