Sayula's flagship product Anima comprises a multi OS grid computing framework, a high-performance add-in transparently integrating the framework's features in Microsoft Excel, and a real-time Flash client spreadsheet application that makes Excel documents available on the Internet. Some of Anima standard features are multi-vendor market data retrieving and contributing functions, multi-vendor relational DB access, and the ability to dynamically integrate proprietary or third-party analytic libraries.

Sayula's Anima provides for the simplest deployment of analytic libraries on the Linux, Solaris, and Windows server side -just copy the libraries to a server directory, define the function signatures on Anima's system administrator's GUI and the functions become instantly available to all the Excel users in your network. This powerful functionality is silently implemented by Anima's robust distributed application infrastructure.

Anima's power does not stop with Excel. The same functions that you have just deployed on your server also become instantly available in your company's web. Anima implements a real-time and fully interactive spreadsheet Flash application supporting the display of any standard Excel document. Spreadsheets on the web can be opened in private or shared mode, the latter mode allowing all authorized users to see, in real-time, any changes made to the document.

In Excel, Anima's generic add-in effectively transforms Excel into a thin client application, transparently offloading analytics execution to the server with no need to modify existing spreadsheets. On the Web, the Excel-like Flash client understands the format of native Excel XML spreadsheet files, which means any existing Excel models can be readily activated as real-time, fully interactive spreadsheets on any standard web browser. And in both environments consistency of analytic results is no longer an issue. Anima's distributed architecture completely eliminates the perennial problem of client-deployed software version incompatibility.

Anima supports two-way (subscribing and publishing) generic access to any of the following real-time Enterprise Service Bus implementations:

• Reuters RMDS
• Reuters Triarch/SSL
• Tibco Rendezvous (Rv)
• Bloomberg BBComm Server.