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Architecting the Intelligent Enterprise
Thursday, July 02, 2009
OpenSpan Brings BI, BAM and BPM to the Desktop
OpenSpan Inc. is shipping OpenSpan Events, a service that extends business intelligence (BI), business activity monitoring (BAM) and business process management (BPM) to the desktop. OpenSpan Event benefits include real-time visibility and alerts fot both IT and business managers.
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Yahoo Improves Apache Hadoop for Cloud
Yahoo has released an improved distribution of Apache Hadoop, an open source project that lets users process massive amounts of data. Yahoo Distribution of Hadoop supports many mission-critical apps at Yahoo, including Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail and various content and advertising services.
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San Francisco Employs SOA To Fight Water Pollution
San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission is enlisting an SOA-based solution from IBM in the city’s fight to reduce pollution in the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The city’s new weapon is IBM Maximo Asset Management software, which officials says will provide near real-time management of wastewater systems, including treatment centers and 1,000 miles of pipeline.
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Discount Tire Manages End-to-End with Red Hat
Discount Tire, an independent tire and wheel retailer, is using Red Hat Network Satellite to bring more visibility and performance to Linux systems running mission-critical internal and e-commerce systems. Discount Tire says even their IT staff productivity has also improved.
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SugarCRM Adds Integration, Mobile Tools to Cloud
SugarCRM is using the cloud to make it easier to build and manage mobile CRM (customer relationship management) solutions. The improved web services and better tools are part of the Sugar Open Cloud, and available as a beta test offerings.
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Frost Bank Standardizes on Ivory for Mainframe SOA
Frost Bank, which manages $15 billion in assets, is standardizing on GT Software’s Ivory Service Architect for a wide range of mainframe integration and modernization projects. Bank IT execs cite Ivory's easy approach to updating and integrating a wide array of core mainframe apps and data.
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HP Helps CIOs Run IT Like a Business
At HP Software Universe this week, HP unveiled its Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to help CIOs contain IT costs by using business analytics to make better decisions, operate more efficiently and better align IT activities with the rest of the business.
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Pegasystems Helps Insurers Build Profits, New Business
Pegasystems Inc. is shipping a BPM-rooted solution aimed at helping insurers drive new business and retain existing accounts. The 'New Business Backbone' helps automate many manual processes by integrating BPM, Best Practices and case management features.
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HP Software Universe Talks SOA, Governance: June 16 -18
This week, HP Software Universe 2009 is taking place in Las Vegas, offering attendees tips for using SOA, services and governance to help their businesses reduce costs, increase efficiencies and achieve short-term ROI.
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Saperion Upgrades ECM System for Integration
Saperion is shipping version 6 of its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system, which sports a SOA-based open architecture designed to let companies more quickly develop and customize new products and integrate with existing systems.
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Alfresco, EnterpriseDB Forge Open Source Alliance
Alfresco Software Inc. and EnterpriseDB Corp. have forged a technology and business alliance aimed at helping make it easier for businesses to benefit from open source database, content and integration options.
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Hear 6 Top Intelligent BPM Expert Sessions -- On Demand
Business Process Management experts from IBM, IDS-Scheer, Lombardi, Pegasystems, Software AG and TIBCO discuss Intelligent BPM solutions and Best Practices to accelerate productivity, profits and compliance in a series of on demand presentations. All sessions, available at no-charge, run about 20 minutes.
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iRise, Rational Tie-In Provides ‘Hi-Fi Simulations’
iRise is shipping iRise Connect for IBM Rational Requirements Composer to provide accurate simulations of how well software designs will meet business needs and integrate with existing software -- all before software development begins
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Sun's Cloud Services Target Business Needs
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced a new portfolio of professional services to help businesses move forward with cloud computing. Sun's Cloud Strategic Planning Service, announced at Sun's CommunityOne conference, pledged to connect-the-dots between cloud's capabilities and today's needs for ROI and business improvements.
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IBM Rational Drives ‘Strategic’ Software Delivery
At this week’s Rational Software Conference, IBM rolled out technologies designed to help companies drive more business value from their software and integration investments. Key Rational upgrades will apply business process principals to software delivery, provide visibility into business impact of software, and even leverage the cloud.
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Savvion Boosts BPM ROI with ‘Business Transformation'
Savvion has launched a Business Transformation Practice to help business and IT reap better ROI from BPM software. Savvion’s Business Transformation Practice looks to address five key business concerns.
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Intalio Ships Integrated BPM-CRM Enterprise Cloud
Intalio Inc. is bringing together BPM and CRM into an integrated cloud computing solution for the enterprise, thanks to two recent acquisitions. Intalio, a venture-backed firm, is also shipping an appliance based on HP technologies to support on-premise secure private clouds.
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Pegasystems, Milliman Integrate Features for Healthcare
Pegasystems Inc. and Milliman Care Guidelines are cooperating to deliver next generation workflow and case management capabilities to help healthcare organizations improve efficiencies and patient care.
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EDS Tunes SOA, Cloud for Continental Airlines Operations
EDS will combine SOA and cloud services to help Continental Airlines automate some flight operations and save money. The solution, to be delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS), will leverage EDS’ Airline SOA platform.
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5 Secrets of Highly-Available Integration Infrastructure
Progress Software describes five misconceptions or “dirty little secrets’ about high availability for IT integration infrastructure. The report discusses failover clusters and says five-nines uptime may not reflect true business costs of failures.
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Ping Identity Launches SAML Endpoint Program
Ping Identity Corp. is offering a new end-to-end program designed to help companies speed the rollout of SSO (single sign-on) and identity-enabled Web services between their partners and customers.
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iTKO’s LISA Extends SOA Testing To Speed Deployment
iTKO LISA is shipping upgrades to its SOA validation and virtualization lifecycle quality solutions to speed up design-to-deployment for enterprise software and SOA services. iTKO LISA’s 4.6 sports expanded support for stateful services, next-gen virtualization, and enhanced UI testing and policy validation.
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Cloud and API Updates Will Drive ‘Significant’ SOA Growth
SOA component services are poised for “significant growth” as IT departments speed conversion of their traditional APIs to SOA services, and as cloud computing begins to take hold for various on-demand services, according to the report “Worldwide SOA Component Services Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, 2009-2015” from WinterGreen Research Inc.
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IBM Upgrades Innov8 'Virtual Game' for SOA Training
IBM released an upgrade to its Innov8 ‘virtual game' for SOA training during its IMPACT OA conference in Las Vegas, Nev. Innov8 v2 aims to teach SOA skills to business and technology professionals with three new scenarios and business process expertise from ILOG.
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Dexterra Ties Mobile Workers to Backend Oracle Apps
Dexterra Inc. is powering the upgrade of an integrated mobile applications program at one of the world’s largest elevator services firms. The effort provides near real-time integration with ThyssenKrupp Elevators AMS’s backend Oracle CRM and ERP apps.
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SOA Dead? Report Says SOA Market Hits $10B by 2015
Despite predictions by some analysts that SOA is in the doldrums or dead, a new report from Wintergreen Research sees on-going double-digit growth for SOA projects over the next six years, and surpassing $10 billion by 2015.
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AmberPoint Upgrades Business Transaction Management
AmberPoint is shipping upgraded technologies for Business Transactions Management BTM designed to avoid fire drills from errors that can occur when transactions traverse multiple hops across an enterprise. The tools detect, discover and isolate transaction failures, and help more quickly determine the cause.
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Cordys, Sogeti Plan ‘BPM in the Cloud’ for Financials
Cordys, a provider of BPM technologies optimized for the cloud, is expanding its partnership with BPM services firm Sogeti to bring cloud-based BPM options to the financial and transportation sectors.
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SNIA Works on Cloud Storage Interfaces, Best Practices
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), has formed the Cloud Storage Technical Work Group (TWG) to develop storage networking architectures and best practices to enable companies to more easily load, access, integrate and secure cloud storage solutions.
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Enterprise Cloud Summit Coming to Las Vegas, May 18
The Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop, which will focus on how traditional enterprises can adopt cloud computing models, will be held May 18 and 19 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
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AppRiver Brings Voltage Email Encryption to SaaS Offerings
AppRiver, an email and hosting service for businesses, is adding Voltage Security Network, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-mail encryption technology to its line of managed e-mail services. AppRiver has integrated the Voltage SecureMail encryption system into its on-demand cloud-based infrastructure.
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ParaScale Upgrades Cloud Storage Software
ParaScale Inc. is shipping an upgrade to its ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) software, which can cluster hundreds of low-cost Linux servers into a enterprise-class file repository. PCS v1.2 upgrades the company’s distributed object file system technologies, and is opening new options for well-integrated, well-managed cloud storage.
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Amazon Adds 'Reserved' Pricing Options to EC2 Cloud
Amazon Web Services is launching a new pricing option aimed to provide EC2 users more predictability and lower costs. With ‘Reserved Instances’ Amazon expands EC2’s current On-Demand pay-as-you-go pricing.
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JackBe, EMS Brings ERP Mashups to Higher Education
Mashup innovator JackBe is partnering with EMS-Intelligent Chaos (EMS-IC) to bring ERP mashups to colleges and universities. The goal is to make information more accessible and useful to students and professors.
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Sabre Holdings Standardizes on FUSE Open Source ESB
Sabre Holdings, parent of the world-renown Sabre travel reservation system and Travelocity.com, will standardize on Progress Software’s FUSE open source ESB for real-time integration and SOA with its B2B partners.
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Pegasystems SmartBPM Powers Obama Mortgage Plan
Pegasystems’ SmartBPM technology and end-to-end integration is at work assisting mortgage lenders and servicers quickly comply with a new Obama Administration program aimed at helping solve the mortgage crisis.
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OSGi Grows in Popularity Among ESB Providers
The OSGi Service Platform is becoming the platform of choice for enterprise service bus (ESB) offerings, according to the OSGi Alliance. Progress Software, Red Hat and TIBCO Software are using or plan to use OSGi technology in their ESBs, officials said.
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Cordys Blends BPM and ‘Cloud’ with ECOSystem Offering
Cordys is blending the best of BPM and cloud computing with the debut demo of its Enterprise Cloud Orchestration System (ECOSystem). The technology was demonstrated at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit 2009 in San Diego.
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Global 360 viewPoint Delivers ‘Persona-based’ BPM
Global 360’s viewPoint, previewed at the Gartner BPM Summit, offers a ‘persona-based’ Business Process Management approach which delivers BPM apps that can better adapt to requirements of three trypes of user – developers, end users and managers.
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Identity and Access Management To See Boost by 2012
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is becoming a more viable solution for businesses, looking for efficient ways of identity management, according to market research firm RNCOS.
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EntropySoft Extends Integration for Microsoft SharePoint
EntropySoft is shipping a upgrade to its conector for Microsoft SharePoint, extending ability for users to integrate with document management offerings from EMC, Oracle, HP, IBM, Interwoven and Oracle.
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Research: Top 10 Data Virtualization Patterns
Composite Software Inc. has defined ‘Top 10’ data virtualization patterns in a new report for enterprise architects and integration teams.
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JackBe: ‘Record Adoptions’ for Enterprise Mashups in '08
JackBe execs says 2008 was a banner year for adoption of enterprise mashup solutions, noting record growth from adoptions in government and commercial sectors, as well as its launch of an online mashup developer community.
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Gartner Holds Business Continuity Summit in April
Gartner’s Business Continuity Management Summit will be held on April 27-29 in Chicago. During the event, attendees will receive strategic and tactical guidance to help them build recovery, continuity, and continuous availability capacity for end-to-end enterprise applications.
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DSI dcLINK Validated for Oracle E-Business Suite 12
Data Systems International said it completed Oracle's required application and testing procedures to validate integration of its dcLINK 5.0 with Oracle E-Business Suite 12, which uses Oracle BPEL Process Manager.
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O’Reilly Sets ‘Found Conference’ for June 9-11
O’Reilly Media Inc.’s Found Conference is set for June 9-11 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, Calif. The three-day conference aims to help developers focus on search acquisition and architecture techniques to make web-based content easier to find.
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Siemens Deploys Cast Iron Integration Enterprise-Wide
Siemens Energy Inc. is expanding its use of Cast Iron Systems’ Integration Solution appliance throughout the enterprise. Based on an early success with Cast Iron's integratation appliance technologies, Siemens looks to cut costs to maintain and update their integrated systems, as well as combat degraded performance.
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Reflection 2008 Adds Desktop Virtualization, Security
Attachmate is looking define the next-generation terminal emulation platform with Reflection 2008, an upgrade which blends desktop virtualization and support for any-to-any integration projects (such as SOA), with strong support for policy enforcement, security and SLAs.
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Questetra Launches Online BPM Encyclopedia
Questetra Inc. has launched an online BPM Encyclopedia. Dubbed “Q-BPM.org,” it is designed to support Business Process Management projects across 3 key aspects, business strategy, IT strategy and process design.
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SOA Pattern Catalogue, Community Launched by Prentice Hall
SOA Design Patterns, a catalog of 85 design patterns for SOA projects, is now available from Prentice Hall. The book is accompanied by a new SOA expert community, SOAPatterns.org. The coordinated book-web community effort is aimed at creating an on-going environment for submitting, evaluatiung and using new SOA design patterns.
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Sun’s GlassFish Portfolio Could Change Middleware Game
This week, Sun Microsystems enters the open source middleware space with GlassFish Portfolio, a pre-integrated and easily configurable platform that offers an ESB, management and monitoring capability, a web portal for community development, and LAMP stack. IDN talks with Sun execs and looks at 7 ways GlassFish Portfolio could change the game for open source middleware.
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Microsoft Contributes to Apache Open Source SOA Project
Microsoft is contributing code to one of Apache’s open-source SOA project. In a blog post, Microsoft said it was contributing code to Project Stonehenge, intended to build a set of sample applications to implement a SOA based on approved W3C and OASIS standard protocols.
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IDS Scheer, EntropySoft Solution Ties Together CMS and BPM
IDS Scheer and EntropySoft will integrate bi-directional connectors between IDS’ ARIS enterprise architecture platform and EntropySoft’s Content Management System. The integrated offering will help manage and control all business process information.
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Commodities Trader Moves Risk Management to SOA
Commodities trader Trafigura Ltd. is showing how SOA can improve risk assessmen in the volatile world of commodities trading. Using SOA and orchestration capabilities from Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS, Trafigura IT is driving better visibility, reliability and performance
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EMA: 10 ‘Real World’ Best Practices for Service Catalogs
The Enterprise Management Association (EMA) is offering 10 Best Practices for using a Service Catalog as part of ITIL projects, especially those based on architectures using web services and SOA.
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Sogeti Offers CoE Services for IBM WebSphere Commerce
Sogeti is offering a new suite of consulting services to help customers in the retail and manufacturing sector using IBM WebSphere Commerce create a Center of Excellence (CoE) to customers in the U.S. Ireland, Sweden, India and the Netherlands.
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Oracle Bolsters Tuxedo for End-to-End Transactions, SOA
This week, Oracle upgraded the Tuxedo distributed transaction processing platform with tighter integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware, stronger support for mainframe-to-SOA transactions and support for SCA.
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CA Updates Network, Systems Management for Mainframe SOA
CA aims to help IT managers and architects implement mainframe-to-SOA projects with upgrades to its hallmark network and systems management offerings. Updates will boost visibility, performance, availability and compliance with SLAs for business-critical applications, a top CA exec tells IDN.
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Accenture: U.S. Execs Focus on Business Analytics
Despite the financial slowdown, some two-thirds of executives working at large U.S. companies say they need to improve their analytical capabilities, and about half admit they need to add IT capabilities and personnel to support business analytics, according to recent survey by Accenture.
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Open Source IT Embraces Cloud Computing, Google App Engine
Cloud computing is gaining strong momentum in the open source community, with close half of all professionals saying they will offer their apps as web services via cloud providers. Google’s Apps Engine, so far, is the top cloud provider-of-choice, says a survey by Evans Data Corp.
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Sun’s SWIFT Open Integration Powers Banking B2B
Spanish savings bank Caja Madrid will use Sun Microsystems' SWIFT Open Suite for financial integration for secure end-to-end payments, securities, funds and B2B communications. The project shows today’s financial climate is prompting financial IT architects worldwide to explore new integration options.
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Software AG ESB Fuels Rapid Growth for Chinese Insurer
China’s Ping An Insurance is using Software AG’s webMethods ESB/SOA suite to support rapid business expansion and offer ‘one account’ access to insurance, banking and asset management services to 40 million customers.
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Fitch: 2009 ‘Integration’ Spending May Prove a Bright Spot
As the economic downturn enters 2009, IT spending for integration-focused software, consulting and systems integration may prove to be the bright spot. The prediction comes from the 2009 Fitch Outlook, an IT spending projection from worldwide credit watcher Fitch Ratings.
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Amazon’s AWS Offers Public Data as Free ‘Cloud’ Service
Amazon Web Services is taking ‘cloud services’ to a new level with its launch of “Public Data Sets on AWS,” on-demand centralized repositories of public data sets that users can integrated into their AWS cloud-based applications – at no charge.
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AmberPoint Expands SOA Governance for Microsoft Platforms
AmberPoint is bringing greater end-to-end SOA governance and business transaction management capabilities for heterogeneous composite apps with support for Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and .NET Framework 3.5.
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Keynote’s KITE Offers 1-Click Apps Testing From the Cloud
Keynote Systems is making it easy for IT to test apps directly from the cloud, with new 1-click functionality from its KITE (Keynote Internet Testing Environment) product. KITE is available as a free desktop product to test and analyze the performance of Web sites, as well as Web and Web 2.0 apps from across the Internet cloud.
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Gartner Sets CIO Leadership Forum for Jan. 25-27
To help CIOs deal with new, unprecedented challenges that require them to make critical changes across their enterprises and IT organizations, Gartner Inc. is holding its CIO Leadership Forum on Jan,. 25-27, 2009 in Palm Springs, Calif. Learn more about this invitation-only event, and submit an application to attend.
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VMware, HP To Bring Cloud, SOA to Next-Gen DataCenters
VMware and HP are working together to develop software to manage mixed physical and virtual datacenters, in what officials describe as an effort to blend next-gen technologies for datacenter integration, on-demand applications, and cloud computing infrastructure using SOA-type standards and practices.
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Micro Focus Unveils ‘Cloud for COBOL’ Option
Micro Focus is bringing COBOL to cloud computing with its newly-launched Enterprise Cloud Services. The initiative is designed to enable enterprises to save money and accelerate business modernization by moving their COBOL-based business processes and applications onto a cloud platform.
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Quantivo Wins Cloud Computing Emerging Technology Award
Quantivo is the winner of the Emerging Technology Award from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal for the cloud computing category. Cloud computing enables Quantivo’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model.
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5 Strategies to Help IT Pros Navigate the Downturn
To help you gear up for a healthier 2009, here are 5 top strategies to help network and IT managers navigate the current economic downturn. They are offered by Intelliden Inc., a provider of high-performance enterprise and networking solutions. The theme is a simple one. Don’t panic. Be smart!
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Virgin, EDS Team on SOA-Based Airline Reservation System
Virgin Atlantic Airways will extend its IT services partnership with EDS as part of the airline’s push to modernize its airline reservation system using SOA and hosted services.
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Mazda Secures B2B XML Traffic with Vordel
Mazda Australia, a subsidiary of Mazda Motor Corp., has deployed Vordel’s XML channel communications to secure and manage the exchange of business information across the Mazda dealer network.
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Google, Red Hat’s JBoss Enable Next-Gen Web 2.0, RIA Apps
Red Hat is bringing a range of developer and production support to the Google Web Toolkit, and begun integrating GWT and JBoss Seam Framework. The efforts aim to speed design, development and deployment of Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications.
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OMG To Acquire Green Computing Impact Organization
The Object Management Group (OMG), the longtime IT integration standards group, will acquire the Green Computing Impact Organization Inc. (GCIO), an organization focused on sustainability standards and practices.
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VanceInfo Opens IBM-Focused SOA Solution Lab in China
VanceInfo, one of the leading offshore software development companies in China, has opened an SOA Solution Lab in Beijing to focus on developing industry-specific solutions built on IBM’s WebSphere SOA portfolio.
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Alchemy Solutions Shows Moving COBOL to .NET Isn’t Magic
A suite of legacy modernization technologies focused on migration to Microsoft .NET Framework technologies and first developed by Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. are now available through a new company called Alchemy Solutions Inc.
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Gartner CIO Leadership Forum Set For Jan. 25-27 in Palm Springs
To help CIOs deal with new, unprecedented challenges that require them to make critical changes across their enterprises and IT organizations, Gartner Inc. is holding its CIO Leadership Forum on Jan,. 25-27, 2009. The invitation-only event will take place at the Hyatt Grand Champion Resort, Villas & Spa in Palm Springs, Calif.
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Red Hat’s JBoss Middleware Hits 250 Certified ISVs
Red Hat continues to expand its community of JBoss Enterprise Middleware Certified ISVs, with the program now boasting 250 members The JBoss Certified ISV Program aims to deliver software, support and sales-marketing support to ISVs integrating applications with JBoss enterprise platforms and frameworks.
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Aberdeen: Planning Frameworks Help Identify IT Leaders
An intriguing study recently released by Aberdeen Group finds similarities between how companies plan their IT projects, and how they can find their next-generation of leaders – both for IT and companywide. Adherence to standards, attention to structure, and test-and evaluate are all keys to both.
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Oracle Upgrades Event-Driven Architecture Suite
Oracle has launched a new release of the Oracle Event Driven Architecture Suite (Oracle EDA Suite), a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to help businesses rapidly respond to constantly changing market conditions. Oracle’s latest EDA release leverages integration technologies from its BEA Systems acquisition.
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IBM, EIM Help U.S. Army Automate BPM To Cut Costs
IBM and EIM Corp. are teaming up cut for a massive digitization project which will automate business processes for the U, S. Army Publishing Directorate (APD). The project could save the Army up to $1.3 billion annually, the companies said.
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CA Uses SOA To Ease Mainframe Operation, Maintenance
CA has launched Mainframe 2.0, an initiative to make it easier to govern, manage, maintain and secure IBM’s z/OS platform. Notably, CA execs say Mainframe 2.0 will use many principals and technologies from SOA-based architectures.
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Progress Apama CEP Powers RealTime Trading for CQG
Progress Software Corp. has announced that CQG, a charting, analytics, and trade routing platform for global futures markets, will use its Apama complexevent processing CEP platform to deliver advanced execution capabilities to traders.
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iTKO’s LISA 4.5 Extends Automated SOA Lifecycle Testing
iTKO LISA, a provider of testing, validation and virtualization solutions for SOA, has integrated edition its LISA 4.5 lifecycle software within Eclipse. LISA Eclipse Edition offers deep integration with Source Control, Lifecycle Management, SWT interface elements, and many otehr Eclipse IDE features.
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Rally Software Updates PaaS for Agile Lifecycle Management
Rally Software Development Corp. in December will ship updates to its applications and Platform-as-a-Service offerings for Agile lifecycle management, including features to speed development and lower costs by unifying the various SDLC silos.
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Survey: SOA Security a Growing Concern for IT Execs
More than half of IT professionals say they have deferred or slowed SOA or web services adoption due to security concerns. Many wants vendors and services firms to improve SOA security solutions. The global study was released at Computer Associates’ CA World in mid-November in Las Vegas.
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Real-Time SOA Platform Aims to Help Unfreeze Credit Markets
A new SOA-based online application service platform is coming in early 2009 from Storm Networks for buy-side and sell-side institutions participating in the corporate bank loan market. The Storm Loan Marketplace platform was developed in conjunction with SOA provider Quartet Financial Systems as well as Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley.
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Jobs Spike for Middleware Devs with Spring Expertise
Enterprise Java architects and devs concerned about an economic downturn could find solace in a report from SpringSource, creator of the open source Spring platform for enterprise Java apps. SpringSource execs say job listings specifying Spring experience now exceed those for Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere posts.
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Survey: Measuring ROI ‘Greatest’ Challenge for SOA Devs
Determining ROI or payback-for-business from SOA investments is the “greatest challenge” facing SOA developers, finds an Evans Data Corp. survey. Determining SOA's ROI is tougher than technical tasks such as identifying Web Services, testing and validating, the survey said.
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Microsoft SOA & BPM User Conference: Jan 27-30, 2009
The Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference will be held Jan. 27-30, 2009 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Attendees will receive details from Microsoft and its partners on core SOA and BPM offerings, including BizTalk Server, .NET Framework, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Dublin, Oslo and Office.
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Software AG, OpenSpan To Bridge SOA, Legacy and Desktops
Software AG is partnering with OpenSpan Inc. to extend SOA solutions by tying webMethods in with corporate desktops apps running Windows, Java, SaaS and even ‘closed applications’ that offer no APIs.
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Progress Software Extends OpenEdge AppsDev for SOA
Progress Software Corp. has updated its OpenEdge business appdev platform to accelerate SOA projects with design, test and deployment support for tools that come with Progress’ Sonic ESB. OpenEdge also sports a new GUI-driven support for working with Microsoft .NET.
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NetBeans 6.5 Available, Keys on Multi-Language Support
Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community have released NetBeans 6.5 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). While the new release features powerful Java enhancements, it also features support for PHP, Spring, Hibernate, Groovy, Grails, Ruby and even early access version for Python. NetBeans 6.5 also expands localization to a whole new set of written languages.
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MuleSource Upgrades Open Source ESB for Enterprise SOA
MuleSource is shipping an upgrade to its enterprise-class open source Mule ESB. Mule 2.1 Enterprise, comes with new premium connectors for major enterprise packages, as well as support for the Mule RESTpack, and valuable retry policies designed for enterprise SOA deployments.
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CERN Extends SOA Flexibility via Visual Orchestration
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, is using “visual orchestration” from Active Endpoints to ensure its SOA projects are flexible enough to meet a wide range of project goals for IT, business and administrative users.
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JackBe Expands Dev Tools, Support for Web 2.0 Mashups
JackBe is expanding its offering for enterprise Web 2.0 with Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform Developer Edition, along with expanded no-cost training and support through its Mashup Developer Community (MDC).
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MarketingSherpa's Landing Page Optimization Workshop: Nov. 17-18
MarketingSherpa and MarketingExperiments will host the 2008 Landing Page Optimization Workshop, where attendees will learn how to boost effectiveness of landing pages and increase online revenues. Attendees will also receive an individualized review of their landing pages.
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Savvion BusinessManager 7.5 Opens BPM To Business-Users
Major BPM player Savvion is shipping next-gen technology it says will finally allow business users to create and manage business processes. IDN looks at Savvion BusinessManager 7.5, BPM suite.
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Unisys ClearPath Brings Real-Time to Mainframe-Class SOA
Unisys Corp. is shipping a new set of SOA-friendly offerings for its family of ClearPath mainframe-class servers, with a focus on helping users with design time and runtime support for building flexible, real-time infrastructures while cutting cost and complexity.
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Web 2.0 Discussed at Social Media Strategies – Oct 29-30
Industry experts will converge at the Social Media Strategies Conference to offer insights and expertise on creating a social media strategy Oct 29-30 in San Francisco.
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StarPound Targets Voice, Video Integration with Data, BPM
StarPound Technologies is shipping an update to its open source StarPound CORE platform, to let enterprises IT more easily add voice, web, video, messaging and email communications to existing data, business processes and e-customer interactions.
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Progress Updates Open Source FUSE ESB for Full Lifecycle
Progress Software is shipping FUSE ESB 4.0, an upgrade to the former IONA open source ESB based on the Apache Open Source ServiceMix ESB. FUSE 4.0 expands lifecycle support to design, build, test, deploy and manage the ESB, and underscores Progress’ intent to continue support for Open Source middleware.
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IBM Expands Products, Services for BPM for SOA
This fall, IBM is offering new software and services to help companies better improve their business processes to take advantage of SOA agility benefits. On tap: Better BPM modeling, updates for BPM Healthcheck, and a Web 2.0-based ‘business spaces’ to boost IT/business collaboration.
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Software AG CentraSite Upgrade Automates SOA Governance
Software AG is shipping CentraSite ActiveSOA, establishes new benchmarks for automated critical SOA Governance processes, and to improve business efficiencies and better unified command and control.
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Red Hat Upgrades JBoss, JON for Enterprise SOA
Red Hat has upgraded its enterprise offerings for SOA with the release of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1. The focus of these upgrades are to cut cost and complexity of SOA projects, and bring more visibility to SOA management and team development.
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HP Systinet 3.00 Brings Automation to SOA Governance
HP is shipping SOA Systinet 3.00, an upgraded to its foundation SOA Governance product to boost SOA returns by offering improved visibility and integration between SOA design time and runtime, boost automation and expanding support for SOA and business process.
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WorkSoft Upgrades SOA Testing, Validation Tools
Worksoft Inc. is shipping an upgrade to its Worksoft Certify for SOA, which provides a ‘scriptless’ approach to testing and validating business processes for SOA. The ofering works with SAP, .NET, Java and mainframe environments.
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WSO2 Open Source Tools, Training Bring SQL to SOA
Open source SOA firm WSO2 is helping database administrators and programmers play a more central role in SOA projects with release of WSO2 Data Services tool and online training.
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SOA Software Expands SOA Governance for Microsoft .NET
SOA Software has expanded certification of the Microsoft .NET Framework to include the Microsoft Managed Services Engine (MSE) as a governed service platform.
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Sybase PowerDesigner 15 Upgrades Modeling for SOA Agility
Late this month, Sybase Inc. will ship Sybase PowerDesigner 15, its upgraded all-in-one modeling and design product to bring more automation to alignment of IT and business processes, especially for SOA and BPM projects.
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Internet Leaders Gather at Web 2.0 Summit, Nov. 5-7
Web 2.0 Summit will bring together the leaders of the Internet economy in San Francisco on Nov. 5-7. The program will explore Web 2.0 business models and technologies at work in healthcare, genetics, finance, global business, and politics. Featured speakers wil include Al Gore and Lance Armstrong.
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Sun Ships OpenSSO Enterprise To Secure Web Services
Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced Sun OpenSSO Enterprise software, an integrated and 'open' end-to-end toolset for secure single sign-on (SSO) for SOA and web services environments.
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Web 2.0 Expo Europe Convenes in Berlin, Oct 21-23
The second annual Web 2.0 Expo Europe will be held in Berlin on Oct. 21-23. Topics include: start-up financing, mobile 2.0, cloud computing, social network and Web 2.0 advertising.
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Oracle Says BEA Integration Hits on Many Cylinders
Last week Oracle Corp. told attendees at Oracle OpenWorld that the integartion of BEA Systems resources into Oracle's well-integrated middleware product family cotniues at a rapid pace. Oracle cited progress with key Oracle Fusion Middlewar components, including Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle WebLogic Application Grid, Oracle Business Process Management, and Oracle WebCenter Suite.
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BNP Paribas Improves Loans BPM with Pegasystems
As the credit crisis rolls on, many financial institutions are better integrating workflow and business process systems. The latest example, BNP Paribas will use the PegaRules Process Commander platform from Pegasystems Inc., to improve loan origination and approval systems for its large loans processing operation.
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Oracle TopLink 11g Strengthens Ties with WebLogic, ADF
To ease infrastructure development projects, Oracle Corp. is shipping Oracle TopLink 11g, with tighter support for WebLogic Server and open Java frameworks, including Oracle’s Application Development Framework. TopLink is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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Caspio Bridge Boosts Web 2.0 Support with Ajax, Mashups
Caspio is upgrading Web 2.0 capabilities in its Caspio Bridge web-based subscription database platform with more interactive and integration to support mashups, AJAX and security protections.
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Oracle Upgrades WebLogic SIP Server for Multimedia
Oracle Corp. is shipping Communications Converged Application Server 4.0, based on BEA’s WebLogic SIP Server. The upgraded CCAS allows network operators, equipment providers, SI and ISVs to develop, deliver and operate multimedia communications services in real time.
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Attachmate Tunes Verastream for Mainframe-SOA Projects
Longtime mainframe integration firm Attachmate Corp. this week released an update to its Verastream Host Integrator to greatly simplify the complexity of legacy-to-SOA integration, as well as lower the time, cost and risk of such projects.
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Oracle Updates Help Enterprise IT onto Amazon Cloud
Oracle is offering a packaged ‘cloud computing’ offering to enable corporate IT to better utilize Amazon’s Web Services. The license bundles Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
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Survey: Financial IT Wants ‘Integrated’ Risk Management
An enterprise IT survey released this week finds financial firms coping with $500 billion in losses and write-downs looking for a more ‘integrated’ and balanced approach to risk management. Top 3 drivers: better capital allocation, better loss containment, and even protection against losing trust.
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Sonic ESB Improves Integration, Updates for Insurance BPO
A leading provider of Business Processing Outsourcing to insurance companies, McCamish Systems, is streaming its complex and costly point-to-point B2B architecture using an ESB, and in the bargain is also improving flexibility and response time to its customers.
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Microsoft Previews RoadMap for BizTalk Server 2009
Microsoft Corp. says its next major release of BizTalk Server 2009 is on track for the middle of next year, and offers a glimpse at key features to bolster .NET support for SOA, BPM and other enterprise integration tasks.
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Intel Upgrades XML Software Suite, Mule ESB Adds Support
Intel is shipping an upgrade to its XML Software Suite, designed to provide software partners and end users better XML acceleration, and a new benchmarking tool to check on their performance boosts. MuleSource, provider of the popular Mule Open Source ESB will offer off-the-shelf integration between Mule and the Intel XML Software Suite.
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server as 'Integration Hub'
SharePoint Solutions is encouraging enterprise IT to use Microsoft SharePoint as a “hub” for enterprise application integration projects with a new 3-day training course for architects and devs.
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More Training Courses for Mule Open Source ESB
Evosolutions LLC, an Ohio-based provider of integration solutions, is offering comprehensive lifecycle training for MuleSource’s open source Mule ESB community edition to architects, administrators and developers. All courses include a hands-on lab.
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Software AG Adds Legacy Modernization Tools for SOA
Software AG is shipping a product suite to make it easier to update, integrate and optimize legacy systems for SOA. The webMethods Application Modernization Suite-Discovery Edition offers powerful analytics, refactoring and visualization for COBOL, PL/I, RPG, C/C++ , VB and Java.
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Sun Eyes Former BEA Users with Java CAPS Special Offer
Sun Microsystems is looking to capture the former BEA middleware customers away from Oracle with a special offer for Sun's Java CAPS (Composite Application Platform Suite) for SOA. Offer expires Oct. 30.
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Altova Ships Entry-Level XML Edit, Validation Tool
Altova, creator of XMLSpy, is shipping an entry-level XML editor. Altova XMLSpy 2008 Standard Edition lets users view, validate and edit XML, DTD, XML Schema, XSLT, and XQuery.
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Online Travel Agency Saves Time, Money with SOA
Vantage Deluxe World Travel has deployed a business-savvy SOA project that makes it easier and less expensive for customers to book vacations. The SOA solution from IBM also cuts costs and saves many man-hours for Vantage IT.
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Brazilian Homebuilder Manages Assets with Lombardi BPM
FIT Residencial, a homebuilder in Brazil, is implementing Lombardi Teamworks BPM software to support two core business processes: real estate evaluation acquisition; and financial, legal and commercial management of land and building assets.
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Office 2.0 Showcases Technologies, Case Studies Sept 3-5
Office 2.0 2008 will showcase how enterprises are new tools for collaboration, mobility, Software as a Service and even ‘could’ computing to improve productivity, innovation and ROI. Office 2.0 happens Sept 3-5 in San Francisco.
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Survey: SOA Governance Spending To Skyrocket in Asia
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