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The task of calculating insurance company risk and ability parameters in case when the spare capital is invested with transmitting a portion of risk to reinsurer implies searching numeral multiple-choice integral and differential equations solution. Insurance Company Ability Analysis software package was developed to support this task. Functional shape and usability features of the package are described with a help of illustrating applications.

The problem of a disturbance index calculation is discussed. This index movement data may be used to estimate various effects that influence equity market and provide the prediction models constructing process with useful additional infor¬mation. The method suggested makes it possible to form a learning sample in such a way that enables an analyst to apply at most his/her knowledge and experience for neuron networks explor¬ing.

The concept of lending enterprise informational and analytical environment is used to account management system development. The system requirements and the most significant implementation problems are analyzed following by considerations of possible solutions which assume banking processes automation level improvement.

The article presents some results of economic research in the field of information systems development. The most actual and demanded software development methodologies in the market of IT-services are briefly described and the analysis of techniques estimation on the basis of these methodologies is carried out. Labor and software costs estimation tasks are considered using Func¬tional Point model and COCOMO II (Constructive Cost Model).

General problems of preliminary resource estimation in small original software project are examined in the article. Capabilities and limitations of software project preliminary estimation methods recognized by Russian and international standards (functional points and COCOMO II) are discussed. The results of applying these methods for estimation real software project are given. Also typical Russian risks of software products are fixed and an approach to estimation of identified risks influence on project budget is examined.

Cloud computing features and development directions are considered. The underlying concept means that data are stored on and handled by Internet provider server as opposed to user computer. The issues of payment facilities and variety of services proposed, software and hardware implementation tools, service accessibility, security and compatibility with existing applications as well as the main approaches for the technology standards elaboration are discussed