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About TIPS, Inc TIPS, Inc, is at the forefront in the development of fixed income calculations software for the financial services industry and is considered to be the industry leader in fixed income analytics. TIPS, Inc, was founded in 1986 by Jan Mayle, author of the Standard Securities Calculation Methods books published by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association ( SIFMA ). After years of working as a consultant to the financial services industry, Mr. Mayle saw a need to integrate existing standards which he developed in conjunction with the SIA with the industry 's growing use of software. Designed to help the securities industry standardize the valuation and analysis of fixed income securities, the company 's primary product is the Standard Securities Calculations Software Library. The software library provides calculation routines for valuation and analysis of domestic, foreign developed and emerging market fixed income securities to developers of in-house and commercial systems. Delivering on TIPS ' mission to facilitate standards within the financial services industry, the library 's hardware and language independence assures users of consistent results. It can be used on most industry-standard computers from mainframes and minis to workstations and personal computers and can be used with most common programming languages including C, C#, Java, Perl, COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG, PL/SQL, Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic and others. In addition to developing the software library, TIPS, Inc, offers educational courses, consulting and benchmark data. TIPS, Inc, also works with industry associations and rulemaking bodies to define, create, implement and update industry standards. TIPS, Inc, software is currently being used by many of the nation 's leading brokerage, money management, banking and insurance firms. Additionally, TIPS provides its software to the nation 's largest software development companies.