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News November 2005
Unexpected Proposal from Japan Earlier this year, ABS, the largest US based risk consulting company, approached RELCON with a proposal to represent RS in Japan with sales and support. This in itself would not be of note, except that ABS is the parent company of PLG which writes and sells RISKMAN, a major PRA software. In fact, Steve “Woody” Epstein, who approached RELCON with the proposal, is the creator and chief architect of RISKMAN. He is currently the Director of PRA Technologies in Asia for ABS. Woody explains: RISKMAN and RiskSpectrum each represent a different ways of modeling, loosely called Large Event Trees and Large Fault Trees. A model built in one way cannot be quantified in the other way without a major undertaking. So traditionally our client bases have been separate, since PLG, and now ABS, specializes in the Large Event Tree method. Here, in Japan, we tend to service our potential customers in every need they have, even if it is not our specialty. Also our client’s compare their calculations making different models with different PRA software. This is the horizontal way of doing business in Japan, and to be successful, we at ABS must do so, also. |
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