How To Install Derivatives Expert IV

Derivatives Expert IV for (all) Mathematica license types:

• Single-User

• Single-Machine

• Network

• webMathematica

• gridMathematica

Contents

 1.a Introduction

 1.b Versions

 2a. Installing on Microsoft Windows

 2b. Installing on Linux and UNIX

 2c. Installing on Mac OS X

 3. Special requirements (only the database module)

1.a Introduction

Dear User of Derivatives Expert IV


This is the fourth official release of Derivatives Expert.

If Derivatives Expert is installed correctly it will operate just like any other standard Mathematica package or notebook on any given platform.

Each license of Derivatives Expert IV is delivered as "Digital Delivery" i.e. by download through the internet or by delivery through email.

Below follows further information on how to install Derivatives Expert correctly.

(This may not apply to you: Some licenses of Derivatives Expert IV may require that a so-called $MachineID is sent to your distributor or Innova Financial Solutions beforehand.)

1.b Versions

 To install Derivatives Expert IV on Mathematica 7 and 6 see below.

 To install Derivatives Expert III on Mathematica 5, 5.1 and 5.2: See here.

 To install Derivatives Expert III on Mathematica 4.x: See here.

2a. Installing on Microsoft Windows

 With your unpacking software e.g. WinZip unpack the licensed file DerivativesExpertIV.zip (or .tgz) and place the complete DerivativesExpert folder (as it is) in your preferred Mathematica Applications folder e.g.:

$BaseDirectory\Applications\

or

$UserBaseDirectory\Applications\



 You should now have the following paths (your full path names may be different) that contain files:

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\ (contains 24 files)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Data\ (contains 2 files)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Documentation\English\ (contains 45 files)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Java\com\innova\derivativesexpert\database\ (contains 2 files)

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Kernel\ (contains 1 file)


  Now start/restart Mathematica, go to the Help menu and choose Documentation Center. In the Documentation Center find the link called Installed Add-Ons, and click on it. This will show a new window where Derivatives Expert should be shown. Click on the Derivatives Expert link and a help browser opens.


  Maximize the help browser, and if you choose Add-ons in the help menu you should now see Derivatives Expert as an item in the Add-ons menu.

The Derivatives Expert item has all the 23 notebooks as sub-items and they are numbered.


 If you have placed Derivatives Expert correctly in the Applications directory, as described above, you can run the examples in the opened notebooks. To show/list a notebook in the Help browser, double-click on "The whole notebook" in the introduction of any one of the notebooks numbered 1 to 19.

The notebooks that are not numbered 1 to 19 are informational notebooks.

Now please open (e.g. from the File->Open... menu in Mathematica) and read Introduction.nb. Also remember that the standard Mathematica documentation contains a lot of information about running and opening Mathematica compatible packages and notebooks.

2b. Installing on Linux and UNIX

Refer to the Windows installation guide above.

2c. Installing on Mac OS X

Refer to the Windows installation guide above.

3. Special requirements for the database module

As of Mathematica version 5.1 there is a database application with Mathematica which may be best to use. If you wish to use the Database module of Derivatives Expert IV please place one or more relevant JDBC drivers so that J/Link can see them. Please refer to the standard J/Link documentation or email us. Make sure to delete the JDBC drivers that follow with Mathematica if the one you are using is newer but first refer to the standard Mathematica documentation (for more on JDBC drivers and related). Relevant place (for the DatabaseTools package of Derivatives Expert) to place the JDBC drivers are e.g.:

$BaseDirectory\Applications\DerivativesExpert\Java\