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STAC provides product development organizations with help across all four C's of competitive strategy by enabling a better understanding of what customers want, what competitors offer, what collaborators (partners) can bring to the table, and how the company's offerings stack up.

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Engineers build and maintain the systems that the world depends on, from applications and middleware to systems, networks, and storage. The engineers behind today's financial infrastructure are under pressure to improve performance and reduce costs even as they introduce new functionality. With so much riding on their shoulders, engineers need the best information and tools they can get their hands on. STAC helps in a number of ways.

In performance-sensitive businesses, application development is largely about managing tradeoffs. Those tradeoffs could be throughput versus latency, speed versus accuracy, or some other aspect of performance versus other application behavior. But they could just as easily be tradeoffs between application performance and developer productivity. Engineering for today's highly parallel environments is non-trivial, to put it mildly.

STAC provides resources that help developers understand those tradeoffs: