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Hotel Alda Plaza Mayor, Salamanca
Situated in the heart of Salamanca, Hotel Alda Plaza Mayor is within walking distance of Plaza Mayor, Cathedral of Salamanca, and San Esteban Convent. Also nearby are Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum and Pontifical University of Salamanca.
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Dining options at this Salamanca residence include a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a bar/lounge. Wireless and wired high-speed Internet access is complimentary in public areas. Additional amenities at this Beaux Arts property include coffee/tea in the lobby and an elevator (lift). A total renovation of this property was completed in June 2012.
The 14 air-conditioned guestrooms at Hotel Alda Plaza Mayor include hair dryers. Guests can use the in-room complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access. Televisions are equipped with satellite channels.
Centre of Salamanca. Very reasonably priced. Friendly staff.
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Should I heat a mudroom/vestibule?
I am about to start renovating the mudroom/vestibule of my house and I'm not sure whether I should add electric radiant floor heat.
My house was built around 1930 but the vestibule on the front is only about 30 years old. The exterior is brick and stone. I was told the original entrance fell apart so the prior owners built this new one themselves. Aesthetically, the prior owners did a decent job but otherwise itâÂÂs junk. The whole thing leaks and isn't sealed or insulated well. The room is actually 2 stories because it is above what we believe was the coal bin in the basement. When they put in the floor joists for the upper room they ran the wood exposed to the outside which is the cause of most of the leaking when it rains.
Needless to say, we are going to totally have to gut it. I would like to make the room part of the inside of the house rather than the outside, which is currently is.
It's a very small room. Currently about 5 feet by 8 feet, but we plan on putting in a coat closet so the actual room will be smaller.
Is it small enough that it will be ok to just let it heat up by opening the inside door or will it just suck the heat out of the house?
Also, I plan on replacing the front door. So, after a new door and sealing and insulating it should be pretty tight.
Sounds to me like this room will be more of a pass thru. You pass thru it after you are in the house to hang your coat in a closet and maybe remove your shoes and then into the main house closing the door behind you. It will act like a buffer between the outside and the inside. Basically an enclosed porch.
UNLESS there is plumbing in any of the walls that butt up to this room I wouldn't bother to heat it.
At most I might make sure there was an outlet so if I chose to I could put a small electric heater in there but given the amount of real time you might spend in that area it may not even be worth that.
We recently moved the entry of a powder room from the bathroom, to inside of a closet/butler's pantry which you enter from our dining area in our 1915 home. What we didn't take into consideration was a heat source since basically we're talking a large closet space.
We discovered how frigid it gets in there this winter and have resorted to using a space heater which is working well to keep the plumbing warm enough not to freeze since this isn't a main bathroom. It heats up the closet space too. On warmer days it isn't needed; we can keep the door which leads into the space open and the ambient temperature in the house seems to do the trick of keeping it comfortable.
In retrospect, we would have had a problem keeping this bathroom in the kitchen anyway. There's no heat source in there either; and just no place to install and additional unit (we have radiator heat). Old homes, you got to love them :D
I have a similar room in my '38 A&C house that was added as a poorly constructed back porch/laundry room when they also added a bedroom -- both on a crawlspace. We gutted the porch and intended to run heat to it (steam radiator) but because it is lower than the main floor the piping wouldn't work properly. Rather than switch to a recommended electric heat source I decided to try it unheated, and I am very glad I did! Because it's cooler than the rest of the house it's not the ideal place for coats & shoes in winter, but it will work for that purpose. :) I'm in z5 and it generally stays in the 40F - 52F range during winter and will only drop around freezing if we have extended periods of very cold weather (like -20F for a week or more). It's turned out to be a TERRIFIC place for storing my gardening things like bulbs & tubers over winter.
Mear, it depends where you live. We are in Ohio and *any* space that is not heated in winter becomes an icebox. Our small powder room does not have a heating vent and gets cold even with the door open. For our enclosed porch, we can never even leave the door open due to the cold air coming in.
My Mom has a foyer on her 1930's tudor revival. She can't leave the door open in winter to it because cold air comes rushing in.
It should be heated.
Another consideration is whether you plan to keep coats and shoes in this space. We have an unheated enclosed porch, and I would NEVER keep coat or snow boots out there; if I put on a 20 degree coat and shoes, I'd never warm up. We keep our coats inside in a hallway, hung over a radiator, so they are toasty when we put them on and head out into the elements.
Egad I'm glad the winter is finally over.
Like others have said, it really depends on where you are...6B is colder than where we are (8B) but not by too much, I think. Our 235 sf kitchen is unheated; we're in a moderate climate where it's rarely below freezing and usually around 50-60. At those temperatures, the room heats up nicely between sun and heat from the rest of the house---we had an energy audit done before renovating our kitchen, and one of the recommendations was to leave the heating situation alone because the house had been built with a southern exposure that was heating the space naturally. So, we did, though we added insulation to the walls and windows, which helped to stabilize the temperature in the room. When temps dip down below freezing, though, it is cooler in there than in the rest of the house.
So, basically---if you only have a few weeks of wintry weather you'll probably be fine with spillover heat. If it's below freezing for big chunks of the year, I'd think about heating it. Depending on what kind of heat you have (is radiant floor heat the only option?) you might be able to try it first and add heat later, too.


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Only two Tigers participated in the Ortonville Invite on Tuesday, April 27, with Cassidy Hennen posting a 110 and Keli Pry carding a 112.
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Predictions: Packers vs. Lions
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Total Packers writers take a look at today's matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions. Here's the straight dope!
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Total Packers writers tackle the Green Bay Packers vs. St. Louis Rams. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, they see it as a whitewash.
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Steffen: First of all, I just want to say that this is truly a great Super Bowl matchup. Football fans should be thrilled (apologies to Chicago, Minnesota and New Jersey). There isn't a single bit of analysis I can offer that you haven't already heard. "Pittsburgh has more experience, blah, blah, blah. Aaron Rodgers is […]
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Steffen: If you're like me, this past week of hype has been cringe-inducing. On one hand, it's pretty sweet to have just about everyone on TV or the radio gushing about Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. Of course, there are some detractors (Colin Cowherd spent most of Friday morning declaring Rodgers no better […]
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Steffen: Apparently, the Chicago Bears will be "playing to win" this week. This was announced at different times by coach Lovie Smith and several of his players, this week. Each time they declared their intentions, it was with an air of "Well, now what do you think about that?" As if this decision suddenly empowered […]
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Dec 18th
Steffen: The New England Patriots ought to temporarily change their name to the New England Buzzsaw, because that moniker has been lobbed their way a lot the last few weeks. They dropped 45 in consecutive weeks against the Lions and Jets before clownining the Bears 36-7, last Sunday. They are without a doubt the hottest […]
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Dec 11th
Shawn: The talk locally has centered around whether the game against the New York Giants or the Chicago Bears constitutes the must-win game for the Green Bay Packers. The easy answer, of course, is that neither do, that the must-win game is actually this weekend against the Detroit Lions. A loss this week would likely […]
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Shawn: I've said all year the Green Bay Packers would win this week's game, and if anything, I believe even more strongly in that prediction now. The Atlanta Falcons are 8-2, sure. Everyone seems to have forgotten that they beat the Saints after Garrett Hartley missed two easy field goals that would have won the […]
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Sarah: Round two of Brett Favre vs. the Green Bay Packers unfolds Sunday afternoon at the Metrodome. The first round ended with a defeated old man limping off Lambeau Field following a 28-24 loss. Will anything be different this time around? Probably not. The Minnesota Vikings' season has been a letdown, to say the least. […]


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Last update: Friday 13 June 2014 [23 news items]
UMC to expand foundry capacity to fend off competition from SMIC, say sources
Jun 13, 11:30
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will ramp up its capacity for 40nm processes in order to fend off increasing competition from China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International...
UMC approved to raise stake in Hejian
Dec 20, 21:27
United Microelectronics (UMC) is allowed to raise its stake in China-based Hejian Technology after having its equity deal with Hejian's holding company approved by Taiwan's investment...
Apr 26, 01:40
United Microelectronics (UMC) has unveiled plans to raise its stake in China-based Hejian Technology to 80-90%. After getting the nod from its board, UMC will submit related documents...
UMC approved to hold stake in Hejian
Nov 2, 01:00
Contract chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC) has announced that the company has received approval from Taiwan's Investment Commission under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA)...
UMC to buy Hejian shares for US$87 million
Stockwatch - Mar 17, 15:57
Taiwan-based pure-play foundry United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) plans to acquire an up to 30% stake in its China-based counterpart Hejian Technology, with a total transaction...
UMC to terminate merger deal with Hejian
Nov 19, 01:05
United Microelectronics Corporation's (UMC) board of directors has decided to terminate the company's merger agreement with Hejian Technology, according to the Taiwan-based contract...
UMC shares drop after reports of acquisition setback
Newswatch - Nov 18, 16:38
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) saw its shares decline 1.3% to NT$14.70 (US$0.48) on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) during morning trading today (November 18), after a...
Taiwan prosecutors drop case against ex-UMC execs
Newswatch - Oct 11, 17:05
Prosecutors have decided to not seek further actions in an investment case against Robert Tsao and John Hsuan, former chairman and vice chairman of United Microelectronics Corporation...
Former UMC execs found not guilty in Hejian case retrial
Newswatch - Sep 16, 01:05
Robert Tsao and John Hsuan, the former chairman and vice chairman of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), have both been found not guilty of illegal investment in China-based...
Foundry revenues to grow 40% in 2010, says iSuppli
May 12, 11:53
After a year that was decidedly skewed by macroeconomic forces impacting the entire electronics value chain, pure-play foundry suppliers will see revenues jump by 39.5% this year...
UMC says soon to apply for acquisition of China-based Hejian
Mar 25, 11:17
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has said the application to acquire a major stake in China-based Hejian Technology will soon be submitted to Taiwan's Ministry of Economic...
Former UMC chairman faces retrial on Hejian case
Newswatch - Mar 24, 16:15
A high court in Taiwan has started a retrial of Robert Tsao and John Hsuan, former chairman and vice chairman of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), over the company's allegedly...
Taiwan government allows wafer foundries to take shares of rival companies in China
Newswatch - Feb 11, 10:48
The Taiwan government has further eased its rules governing cross-strait investments by allowing Taiwan-based wafer foundries to acquire or make equity investment in China-based foundries...
TSMC to receive US$200 million and shares from SMIC
Nov 11, 11:38
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) have revealed the terms of a settlement for their trade secrets lawsuit, with...
Taiwan premier says no timetable set for relaxing ban on chipmaking and LCD investment to China
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Taiwan Premier Wu Den-yih has dismissed a newspaper report claiming the government has set a timetable for lifting restrictions on setting up China operations by the island's chipmakers...
China market: Foundry chipmakers calling for extensions on tax exemption
Sep 11, 14:32
Seven foundry chipmakers have jointly submitted a letter to China's municipal governments requesting the further extension of a temporary tax exemption policy, according to a various...
Foundries see significant cuts in 4Q09 large-size driver IC orders
Sep 4, 10:20
China-based chipmakers Hua Hong NEC (HHNEC) and Hejian Technology have seen contract orders for large-size LCD driver ICs reduced significantly for the fourth quarter of 2009, while...
UMC shareholders approve acquisition of China Hejian
Jun 11, 12:35
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has received an approval for acquiring a majority stake in Hejian Technology at its annual shareholders meeting, paving the way for the world's...
UMC cannot acquire Hejian under present rules, but Taiwan government may introduce revisions, says minister
Apr 30, 17:07
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will not be allowed to acquire Hejian Technology under the current Taiwan rules, but the government may change them, according to Taiwan's...
Commentary: UMC acquisition of Hejian to heat up competition with TSMC in China
Apr 30, 15:34
The acquisition of Hejian Technology by United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will heat up the camp's competition with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the...
UMC announces bid take full control of Hejian
Apr 29, 17:04
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) announced today that it will spend US$285 million to acquire an 85% stake in chipmaker Hejian Technology, so as to take full control of the...
UMC says no plan at present to merge with Hejian
Stockwatch - Apr 17, 14:41
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has maintained that it currently has no plan to merge with Hejian Technology after the local Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN)...
UMC-Taiwan government lawsuit over Hejian may be settled soon
Jul 18, 15:36
Following the July 17 approval by the Executive Yuan of Taiwan to lift regulations on cross-strait investments, industry players, who mostly expect the Taiwan government to further...
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FBI, VA fall short in embracing the facets of agile development
As part of its effort to cure the government's frequently ailing technology acquisition processes, the Obama administration has proposed that agencies start using agile development techniques.
Two agencies that didn't ask for the role but can be seen as guinea pigs for testing the agile approach in government recently got some feedback on their efforts. Reviewers gave the Veterans Affairs Department and the FBI credit for good intentions but also said their ability to fully embrace the many facets of agile development fell short.
The encouraging news is that the reviewers in both cases suggested that fixing the deficiencies would not be that difficult. The juicier question — whether agile techniques were demonstrably better than traditional development practices would have been — wasn't dealt with and, in fact, is much harder to quantify.
The hallmarks of agile development are closer collaboration between developers and end users and the breakdown of projects into smaller chunks that are delivered in speedy increments.
In an assessment released Dec. 1, the Government Accountability Office said VA's system for processing claims for education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill is missing a key component of an agile program: a velocity oversight mechanism, writes Alice Lipowicz in Federal Computer Week. Such a mechanism measures the rate of work completed and changes to project scope.
The GAO report said that although the agile process has given VA added flexibility and helped it complete early phases on schedule, the department has experienced reduced functionality and schedule delays for later phases.
As some like to say, no good deed goes unpunished.
Roger Baker, VA's assistant secretary for information and technology, disputed several parts of the assessment and said GAO auditors might not understand agile development given its relative newness in government projects.
Meanwhile, a review of the FBI's plan to use an agile approach to complete the remainder of its troubled Sentinel case management system turned up several weaknesses. The September report, commissioned by the FBI and written by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, was obtained recently by David Perera at FierceGovernmentIT through a Freedom of Information Act request.
SEI authors said agile techniques are likely to help solve some of the program's problems, but they expressed several concerns about the bureau's approach. For example, they fear the FBI won't sufficiently empower the agile development team — called a scrum team in agile parlance — and instead cling to a centralized authority model and a predetermined fixed-time, fixed-scope approach to deliverables.
The SEI reviewers also noted that the bureau's plans included a scrum team at least twice the recommended size, a separate quality assurance process rather than one integrated with the scrum team, and little evidence that the end-user community would be continuously involved with the Sentinel developers.
The reviewers said it is reasonable to mix and match elements from various agile methodologies as individual circumstances require, as the FBI has done, but that isn't the problem.
"Our concern…is less with the planned fidelity to a particular version of Agile but rather with the FBI's internalization of the essential principles that underlie all of the major Agile approaches," the report's authors wrote.
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In Vivek Kundra's recent presentation of OMB's new IT priorities he was using agile in the broadest since - not Agile as a methodology, per se. Stressing production deliverables every six months is hardly Agile but it is 'agile' for the typical large government IT project. By requiring th6 month deliverables it protects us from both Governement managers that don't make decisions on a timely basis and contractors that don't produce. It is worth reminding that the projects included in the list are the WORST performing large IT projects so be careful what you extrapolate out of them. Also, these Agencies are hardly Guinea Pigs for Agile. We've been using Agile methodologies (appraised at CMMI-Dev 3, btw) for a decade to the benefit of our USG clients. Just because something blew up and agile was the proposed fix doesn't make it the first. OMB, how about looking at successful projects and learning from them!
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RIYADH -- Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has warned that the kingdom's petroleum-dependent economy is increasingly vulnerable as rising production of U.S. shale oil and gas decreases global demand for crude from members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
In an open letter dated May 13 addressed to Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi and several other ministers, which was published Sunday on a Twitter account previously used by Prince Alwaleed, he said the kingdom won't be able to fulfill its plan to increase its crude production capacity to 15 MMbbl because of the shale threat.
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is now pumping at less than its production capacity because consumers are limiting their oil imports, Prince Alwaleed said. This means the kingdom is, "facing a threat with the continuation of its near-complete reliance on oil, especially as 92% of the budget for this year depends on oil," said the prince.
Representatives of Prince Alwaleed could not be reached for comment. A Saudi official, who did not wish to be named, confirmed that ministers received the letter in May.
In a report last month, OPEC's own analysts predicted that demand for the group's crude would fall next year to 29.6 MMbopd, more than 600,000 bopd below its level last year. The International Energy Agency expects demand for OPEC crude to decline again in 2015 to 29.2 MMbopd, before starting to rise gradually in the following years.
Mr. Naimi has so far played down the significance of rising shale oil production, despite the fact that some OPEC members, such as Nigeria and Algeria, have seen a sharp drop in their exports to the U.S. At the OPEC meeting in late May, he shrugged off the threat, saying it was not the first time OPEC has had to compete with a surge in output from countries outside the group.
"We disagree with your Excellency on what you said, and we see that raising North American shale gas production is an inevitable threat," Prince Alwaleed's letter said, in comments directed at Mr. Naimi.
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Data ownership and privacy are two big issues that we all need to be thinking about these days. Mobile, telematics and IoT technologies have reached the point that it is very easy and cost effective to track the location of just about anything. What personal information are you willing to give up in order to get a better insurance rate? We are seeing more business models these days based upon personal data and tracked activities and locations which should be giving each of us a sense of urgency to think through these issues.
Peter Abatan, Program Manager for Mobility Services with Studio13 at Cognizant shares some of these considerations with us here.
A couple of weeks ago, Quindell and RAC in the UK announced that it has launched a £100m scheme for black boxes to be installed in cars. RAC aims to sell these telematics tracking devices to its 2.5 million members in order to help safe drivers reduce their premiums, plus the opportunity to drive additional revenue by monetizing the data (using the Code Halos).
I am not too sure that this strategy is something that most drivers will buy into for the following reasons:
- It does not really offer the customer a substantial benefit that is quantifiable. If the customer realizes that this approach will only save them a nominal cost it is unlikely to motivate them to pay for the device to drive the premium down by just £100 or there about.
- I never automatically renew my motor insurance with the same company, as I am always searching for the best deal when my policy is about to end. In general, car policy buyers are becoming more informed to make sure they do not renew their insurance without shopping around for the best deals.
Today the conversation around privacy is a very sensitive issue, and RAC may find out that the desire to lower premiums may be trumped by the need for privacy. For example we already know that the probability of having an accident during the night is higher than during the daytime. If as an individual I do more driving in the night than in the day, why would I have a box installed in my car when it will drive up my premiums in the long run?
There is also the issue of driver's location being monitored, and the law enforcement asking to give up data on an individual's whereabouts. These are decisions that will weigh heavily on the mind of customers as to whether or not they should have these boxes installed.
At the beginning of the year at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Ford marketing head Jim Farley sparked a fury among privacy advocates when he said during a panel discussion, "We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it". He went on to say "We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone."
The alternative approach should be that the customers choose to install the black box themselves and choose which data they want to share with their insurance company. The more data they are willing to share the higher the possibility for lower premiums, this with the option to no longer share that data at any time they wish, will make for a good proposition.
This is the whole idea behind the concept of the quantified-self. The individual is in charge of their data and they choose what part of that entire dataset they want to share or to withhold. This is why I see the RAC/Quindell initiative as a high-risk strategy that might not yield the returns that it is hoping for.
While the idea of giving holders of health or life policies heart rate monitors sounds like a ludicrous idea, on the other hand the idea of giving policy holders the opportunity to upload data to indicate that they have a consistent active lifestyle and not at risk of a serious health issue or sudden death might encourage some policy holders to share this data because they like what they have achieved to reduce any of the aforementioned risks and would like to be rewarded for it.
It is important to note that for some policyholders, the reward has to be seen as substantial, otherwise it may not be enough for them to want to participate. This is where gamification comes into its own and where web portals like MapMyRun andTraining Peaks would begin to benefit from helping to develop the concept of the quantified self.
In using gamification to create excitement, there also has to be rewards for consistent performance. Independent portals for driving behavior where car drivers can show off their good driving skills may give insurers the opportunity to reward good driving not just in terms of lower premiums but rewards through gamification. These rewards will go to individuals whether they hold the sponsors policy or not.
According to a USA Today editorial, it was reported that 94% of all new cars manufactured today have black boxes. If that is the case, then car companies need to begin open up that data source such that it is easy for the owners to monitor and manage their own data, which can in turn be provided to the insurer should they desire to do so. This will cause initiatives like RAC/Quindell to review its strategy, as it will eliminate what is already considered a very fragmented market in terms of device and data interoperability.
This should be the approach that RAC and Quindell considers without locking the customer into a black box that would no longer be useful should the policyholder decide to change insurer. Hence, it makes sense that insurers do not reinvent the wheel but seek to partner with car manufacturers so that car owners can access that data that insurers need to reward what is considered good behavior on the roads.
1. USA Today. January 15, 2014. - Is your car's black box the next privacy battlefield?
Peter Abatan is a project manager and a team member of Studio13, which provides product and service design to a wide variety of Cognizant's customers.
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Containers and microservices have become topics of intense interest throughout the cloud developer and enterprise IT communities. Accordingly, attendees at the upcoming 16th Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York June 9-11 will find fresh new content in a new track called PaaS | Containers & Microservices Containers are not being considered for the first time by the cloud community, but a current era of re-consideration has pushed them to the top of the cloud agenda. With the launch of Docker's initial release in March of 2013, interest was revved up several notches. Then late last...
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SOA Software has changed its name to Akana. With roots in Web Services and SOA Governance, Akana has established itself as a leader in API Management and is expanding into cloud integration as an alternative to the traditional heavyweight enterprise service bus (ESB). The company recently announced that it achieved more than 90% year-over-year growth. As Akana, the company now addresses the evolution and diversification of SOA, unifying security, management, and DevOps across SOA, APIs, microservices, and more.
Mar. 28, 2015 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,020
After making a doctor's appointment via your mobile device, you receive a calendar invite. The day of your appointment, you get a reminder with the doctor's location and contact information. As you enter the doctor's exam room, the medical team is equipped with the latest tablet containing your medical history – he or she makes real time updates to your medical file. At the end of your visit, you receive an electronic prescription to your preferred pharmacy and can schedule your next appointment.
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