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RISK & INSURANCE

By CYRIL TUOHY, managing editor of Risk & Insurance®

The Technology Hits and Misses of 2009

What and why some technologies were hotter than others.

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Server suites. Leaving the mobile platforms for the more established "server side" of the enterprise technology architecture, Pagos, the small, Farmington, Conn.-based developer of business logic software, has been promoting its new SpreadsheetWEB product designed to convert Excel spreadsheets into Web applications and then host them instantly on SpreadsheetWEB servers.

The application, designed for business users, not IT geeks, helps solve inconsistencies in data, according to Ugur Kadakal, president and CEO of the company. It's an idea that holds promise. If every accounting manager collected just 1 cent for every time they came across an inconsistent data point, they'd be retired poolside instead of hoofin' it through yet another conference exhibit hall.