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Amazon re:Invent 2014 Recap: "Cloud has Become the New Normal"
It's amazing how fast a year goes by. Last year, Informatica Cloud exhibited at Amazon re:Invent for the very first time where we showcased our connector for Amazon Redshift. At the time, customers were simply kicking the tires on Amazon's newest cloud data warehousing service, and trying to learn where it might make sense to fit Amazon Redshift into their overall architecture. This year, it was clear that customers had adopted several AWS services and were truly "all-in" on the cloud. In the words of Andy Jassy, Senior VP of Amazon Web Services, "Cloud has become the new normal".
During Day 1 of the keynote, Andy outlined several areas of growth across the AWS ecosystem such as a 137% YoY increase in data transfer to and from Amazon S3, and a 99% YoY increase in Amazon EC2 instance usage. On Day 2 of the keynote, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon made the case that there has never been a better time to build apps on AWS because of all the enterprise-grade features. Several customers came on stage during both keynotes to demonstrate their use of AWS:
- Major League Baseball's Statcast application consumed 17PB of raw data
- Philips Healthcare used over a petabyte a month
- Intuit revealed their plan to move the rest of their applications to AWS over the next few years
- Johnson & Johnson outlined their use of Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and referred to their use of hybrid cloud as the "borderless datacenter"
- Omnifone illustrated how AWS has the network bandwidth required to deliver their hi-res audio offerings
- The Weather Company scaled AWS across 4 regions to deliver 15 billion forecast publications a day
Informatica was also mentioned on stage by Andy Jassy as one of the premier ISVs that had built solutions on top of the AWS platform. Indeed, from having one connector in the AWS ecosystem last year (for Amazon Redshift), Informatica has released native connectors for Amazon DynamoDB, Elastic MapReduce (EMR), S3, Kinesis, and RDS.
With so many customers using AWS, it becomes hard for them to track their usage on a more granular level – this is especially true with enterprise companies using AWS because of the multitude of departments and business units using several AWS services. Informatica Cloud and Tableau developed a joint solution which was showcased at the Amazon re:Invent Partner Theater, where it was possible for an IT Operations individual to drill down into several dimensions to find out the answers they need around AWS usage and cost. IT Ops personnel can point out the relevant data points in their data model, such as availability zone, rate, and usage type, to name a few, and use Amazon Redshift as the cloud data warehouse to aggregate this data. Informatica Cloud's Vibe Integration Packages combined with its native connectivity to Amazon Redshift and S3 allow the data model to be reflected as the correct set of tables in Redshift. Tableau's robust visualization capabilities then allow users to drill down into the data model to extract whatever insights they require. Look for more to come from Informatica Cloud and Tableau on this joint solution in the upcoming weeks and months.
Amazon Web Services and Informatica Deliver Data-Ready Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Every Business
At re:Invent 2014 in Las Vegas, Informatica and AWS announced a broad strategic partnership to deliver data-ready cloud computing infrastructure to any type or size of business.
Informatica's comprehensive portfolio across Informatica Cloud and PowerCenter solutions connect to multiple AWS Data Services including Amazon Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, EMR and Kinesis – the broadest pre-built connectivity available to AWS Data Services. Informatica and AWS offerings are pre-integrated, enabling customers to rapidly and cost-effectively implement data warehousing, large scale analytics, lift and shift, and other key use cases in cloud-first and hybrid IT environments. Now, any company can use Informatica's portfolio to get a plug-and-play on-ramp to the cloud with AWS.
Economical and Flexible Path to the Cloud
As business information needs intensify and data environments become more complex, the combination of AWS and Informatica enables organizations to increase the flexibility and reduce the costs of their information infrastructures through:
- More cost-effective data warehousing and analytics – Customers benefit from lower costs and increased agility when unlocking the value of their data with no on-premise data warehousing/analytics environment to design, deploy and manage.
- Broad, easy connectivity to AWS – Customers gain full flexibility in integrating data from any Informatica-supported data source (the broadest set of sources supported by any integration vendor) through the use of pre-built connectors for AWS.
- Seamless hybrid integration – Hybrid integration scenarios across Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Cloud data integration deployments are able to connect seamlessly to AWS services.
- Comprehensive use case coverage – Informatica solutions for data integration and warehousing, data archiving, data streaming and big data across cloud and on-premise applications mesh with AWS solutions such as RDS, Redshift, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, EMR and other AWS ecosystem services to drive new and rapid value for customers.
New Support for AWS Services
Informatica introduced a number of new Informatica Cloud integrations with AWS services, including connectors for Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), to complement the existing connectors for Amazon Redshift and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
Additionally, the latest Informatica PowerCenter release for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) includes support for:
- PowerCenter Standard Edition and Data Quality Standard Edition
- Scaling options – Grid, high availability, pushdown optimization, partitioning
- Connectivity to Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift
- Domain and repository DB in Amazon RDS for current database PAM (policies and measures)
To learn more, try our 60-day free Informatica Cloud trial for Amazon Redshift.
If you're in Vegas, please come by our booth at re:Invent, Nov. 11-14, in Booth #1031, Venetian / Sands, Hall.
Informatica's Response To the POODLE SSL v3 Vulnerability
The information security industry is an "arms race", with attacks always getting better. To that end, it's important that security controls and implementations be designed with flexibility and agility in mind. The SSL protocol was originally developed by Netscape Communications, the company that helped fuel the Internet generation. For the past 20 years, we've seen advancement in computing power and and novel new attacks against SSL implementations. As new vulnerabilities are discovered, enhancements are proposed and TLS was developed to replace SSL. The cycle continues…we're now at TLS 1.2, and with this "POODLE" vulnerability it's finally time to say goodbye forever to the SSL foundations that brought us here.
The recent announcement of POODLE should be another wake-up call to security practitioners and implementors that patches and updates are now the "New Normal" for infrastructure that handles sensitive data. Even foundational protocols like SSL require care and feeding, regular maintenance and updates. For Informatica customers, this note is our response to help you keep your software patched via important updates provided by our Global Customer Support organization.
1 – What you need to know
On October 14, 2014 Google security researchers released details of a vulnerability within the design of SSL version 3 protocol. An attacker in a privileged position on a network could intercept encrypted traffic and methodically decrypt the messages to reveal sensitive information such as credentials. This is an industry-wide issue, affecting nearly every system that implements or supports SSL. TLS is its replacement, but not every product is guaranteed compatible with an SSL -> TLS upgrade so patches need to be applied and tested carefully.
Informatica's cloud-hosted products including Informatica Cloud Services (ICS) and our recently-launched Project Springbok beta, have already been patched to address this issue and will only support TLS going forward. We continue to monitor for relevant updates to both vulnerabilities and available patches.
Because this vulnerability affects connectivity to other systems, it is important that our customers carefully assess (a) the level of risk they are actually subject to, and (b) the impact disabling SSLv3 will have against other clients, servers, and API endpoints in their ecosystem. It may be acceptable, for example, to leave SSLv3 enabled if sufficient compensating controls are enforced and the risk of change is too great.
2 – What you need to do
Informatica's Information Security team coordinated an internal response with developers to assess the vulnerability within our products and cloud services.
Some Informatica products require patches or configuration changes to be able to address this SSL parameter tuning capability. Please contact Informatica Global Customer Support or your account executive for more information or technical questions.
Informatica cloud-based services were patched by our operations team. Please check that your connectivity to these services is operating normally, especially any SSL or TLS settings.
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|No action necessary. The Springbok infrastructure has been patched by Informatica Cloud Operations.
|No action necessary. The ActiveVOS/Cloud infrastructure has been patched by Informatica Cloud Operations.
|No action necessary. The ICS infrastructure has been patched by Informatica Cloud Operations.
Informatica takes the security of our customers' data very seriously. Please refer to this Informatica's Knowledge Base article, or contact our Global Customer Support team if you have any questions or concerns about our product SSL configurations in your environment. The Informatica support portal is always available at http://mysupport.informatica.com.
3 – How to contact Informatica about security
If you are security researcher and have identified a potential vulnerability in an Informatica product or service, please follow our Responsible Disclosure Program.
Informatica Cloud Powers a New Era in Cloud Analytics with Salesforce Wave Analytics Cloud at Dreamforce 2014
We are halfway through Dreamforce and it's been an eventful and awesome couple of days so far. The biggest launch by far was the announcement of Wave, the Salesforce Analytics Cloud, Salesforce's new entry into Cloud analytics and business intelligence. Informatica has been the integration leader for enterprise analytics for 20 years, and our leadership continues with Cloud analytics, as our Informatica Cloud portfolio is the only solution that Completes Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Big Data, fully enabling companies to use Salesforce Analytics Cloud to understand their customers like never before. But don't take our word for it, view the Analytics Cloud Keynote from Dreamforce 2014, and see Alex Dayon uniquely call out Informatica as their key integration partner during his keynote.
The Informatica Cloud Portfolio delivers a broad set of analytics-centric services for the Salesforce Analytics Cloud, including bulk and real time application integration, data integration, data preparation, test data management, data quality and master data management (MDM) services. The portfolio is designed for high volume data sets from transactional applications such as SAP, cloud applications like Workday and new data sources such as Hadoop, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
We have a great booth in the Analytics Zone, Moscone West, 3rd floor, where you can see demos of Informatica Cloud for Salesforce Wave Analytics and get lots more details from product experts.
And, you don't need to wait till Dreamforce is over to try out Informatica Cloud for Salesforce Analytics. The free trial of Informatica Cloud, including Springbok, for Salesforce Analytics Cloud is available now. Trial users have unlimited usage of Informatica Cloud capabilities for Salesforce Analytics Cloud for 60 days, free of charge.
Aside from new product launches, and tons of partner activities going on, we've also got some great customers speaking at DF. Today, we have a great session on "Get Closer to Your Customers Using Agile Data Management with Salesforce" with executive speakers from BT, Dolby and Travel Corporation explaining how they achieve customer insight with use cases ranging from integrating 9 Salesforce orgs into a single business dashboard to unifying 30+ acquired travel brands into a single customer view.
On Monday, we had Qualcomm and Warranty Group present how their companies have moved to the Cloud using Salesforce and Informatica Cloud to meet the agility needs of their businesses while simultaneously resolving the challenges of data scaling, organization complexity and evolving technology strategy to make it all happen.
Drop by our main booth in Moscone North, N1216 to see live demos showcasing solutions for Customer Centricity, Salesforce Data Lifecycle and Analytics Cloud. If you want a preview of our Informatica Cloud solutions for the Salesforce ecosystem, click here.
During Dreamforce, we also announced a significant milestone for Informatica Cloud, which now processes over 100 Billion transactions per month, on behalf of our 3,000+ joint customers with Salesforce.
Oh, and one more thing we announced at DF: the Informatica Cloud Data Wizard, our next-generation data loader for Salesforce, that delivers a beautifully simple user experience, natively inside Salesforce for non-technical business analysts and admins to easily bring external data into Salesforce with a one-touch UI, really!
For more information on how you can connect with Informatica at Dreamforce 2014, get all the details at informaticacloud.com/dreamforce
Embracing the Hybrid IT World through Cloud Integration
With Informatica Cloud, we've long tracked the growth of the various cloud apps and its adoption in the enterprise. Common business patterns – such as opportunity-to-order, employee onboarding, data migration and business intelligence – that once took place solely on-premises are now being conducted both in the cloud and on-premises.
The fact is that we are well on our way to a world where our business needs are best met by a mix of on-premises and cloud applications. Regardless of what we do or make, we can no longer get away with just on-premises applications – or at least not for long. As we become more reliant on cloud services, such as those offered by Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, NetSuite, Workday, we are embracing the reality of a new hybrid world, and the imperative for simpler integration it demands.
So, as the ground shifts beneath us, moving us toward the hybrid world, we, as business and IT users, are left standing with a choice: Continue to seek solutions in our existing on-premises integration stacks, or go beyond, to find them with the newer and simpler cloud solution. Let us briefly look at five business patterns we've been tracking.
One of the first things we've noticed with the hybrid environment is the incredible frequency with which data is moved back and forth between the on-premises and cloud environments. We call this the data integration pattern, and it is best represented by getting data, such as price list or inventory from Oracle E-Business into a cloud app so that the actual user of the cloud app can view the most updated information. Here the data (usually master data) is copied toserves a certain purpose. Data Integration also involves the typical needs of data to be transformed before it can be inserted or updated. The understanding of metadata and data models of the involved applications is key to do this effectively and repeatedly.
The second is the application integration pattern, or the real time transaction flow between your on-premises and cloud environment, where you have business processes and services that need to communicate with one another. Here, the data needs to be referenced in real time for a knowledge worker to take action.
The third, data warehousing in the cloud, is an emerging pattern that is gaining importance for both mid- and large-size companies. In this pattern, businesses are moving massive amounts of data in bulk from both on-premises and cloud sources into a cloud data warehouse, such as Amazon Redshift, for BI analysis.
The fourth, the Internet of Things (IOT) pattern, is also emerging and is becoming more important, especially as new technologies and products, such as Nest, enable us to push streaming data (sensor data, web logs, etc.) and combine them with other cloud and on-premises data sources into a cloud data store. Often the data is unstructured and hence it is critical for an integration platform to effectively deal with unstructured data.
The fifth and final pattern, API integration, is gaining prominence in the cloud. Here, an on-premise or cloud application exposes the data or service as an external API that can be consumed directly by applications or by a higher-level composite app in an orchestration.
While there are certainly different approaches to the challenges brought by Hybrid IT, cloud integration is often best-suited to solving them.
Here's why.
First, while the integration problems are more or less similar to the on-premise world, the patterns now overlap between cloud and on-premise. Second, integration responsibility is now picked up at the edge, closer to the users, whom we call "citizen integrators". Third, time to market and agility demands that any integration platform you work with can live up to your expectations of speed. There are no longer multiyear integration initiatives in the era of the cloud. Finally, the same values that made cloud application adoption attractive (such as time-to-value, manageability, low operational overhead) also apply to cloud integration.
One of the most important forces driving cloud adoption is the need for companies to put more power into hands of the business user. These users often need to access data in other systems and they are quite comfortable going through the motions of doing so without actually being aware that they are performing integration. We call this class of users 'Citizen Integrators'. For example, if a user uploads an excel file to Salesforce, it's not something they would call as "integration". It is an out-of-the-box action that is integrated with their user experience and is simple to use from a tooling point of view and oftentimes native within the application they are working with.
Cloud Integration Convergence is driving many integration use cases. The most common integration – such as employee onboarding – can span multiple integration patterns. It involves data integration, application integration and often data warehousing for business intelligence. If we agree that doing this in the cloud makes sense, the question is whether you need three different integration stacks in the cloud for each integration pattern. And even if you have three different stacks, what if an integration flow involves the comingling of multiple patterns? What we are noticing is a single Cloud Integration platform to address more and more of these use cases and also providing the tooling for both a Citizen Integrator as well as an experienced Integration Developer.
The bottom line is that in the new hybrid world we are seeing a convergence, where the industry is moving towards streamlined and lighter weight solutions that can handle multiple patterns with one platform.
The concept of Cloud Integration Convergence is an important one and we have built its imperatives into our products. With our cloud integration platform, we combine the ability to handle any integration pattern with an easy-to-use interface that empowers citizen integrators, and frees integration developers for more rigorous projects. And because we're Informatica, we've designed it to work in tandem with PowerCenter, which means anything you've developed for PowerCenter can be leveraged for Informatica Cloud and vice versa thereby fulfilling Informatica's promise of Map Once, Deploy Anywhere.
In closing, I invite you to visit us at the Informatica booth at Oracle Open World in booth #3512 in Moscone West. I'll be there with some of my colleagues, and we would be happy to meet and talk with you about your experiences and challenges with the new Hybrid IT world.
Elevating Your App by Embedding Advanced, REST-ful Cloud Integration
But, as Billy Macinnes, in his July MicroScope article, reminds us, the opportunities come with many challenges, and so far only a few ISVs have risen high enough to truly meet them all. While the article itself is more concerned about where ISVs are headed, Macinnes and the industry experts he references, such as Mike West and Philip Howard, make it clear that no one is going anywhere far without a cloud strategy that meaningfully addresses data integration.
As a business app consumer myself, I too am excited by the possibilities that exist. I am intrigued by the way in which the new applications embrace the user-first ethos and deliver consumer-app-like interfaces and visual experiences. What concerns me is what happens next, once you get beyond the pretty design and actually try to solve the business use case for which the app is intended. This, unfortunately, is where many business apps fail. While most can access data from a single specific application, few can successfully interact with external data coming from multiple sources.
Like many of the challenges (such as licensing and provisioning) faced by today's ISVs, data integration is something that lies outside of the expertise area of a typical app developer. Let's say, for example, you've just come up with a new way to anticipate customer needs and match it with excess inventory. While the developer expertise and art of the app may be, say, in a new algorithm, the user experience, ultimately, is equally dependent on your ability to surface data – inventory, pricing, SKU numbers, etc. – that may be held in SaaS and on-premises systems and seamlessly marry it – behind the scenes – to cloud-based customer information.
The bottom line is that regardless of the genius behind your idea or user interface, if you can't feed relevant data into your application and ensure its completeness, quality and security for meaningful consumption, your app will be dead in the water. As a result, app developers are spending an inordinate amount of time – in some cases up to 80% of their development cycle – working through data issues. Even with that, many still get stuck and end up with little more for their effort than a hard lesson in the difficulties of enterprise data integration long understood by every integration developer.
Fortunately, there is a better way: cloud integration.
Cloud integration enables the developer to focus on their app and core business. The ISV can offer cloud integration to its customers as an external resource or as an embedded part of its app. While some may see this as a choice, any ISV looking to provide the best possible user experience has no real option other than to embed the integration services as part of their application.
Look at any successful business app, and chances are you'll find something that empowers users to work independently, without having to rely on other teams or tools for solutions. Take, for example, the common use case of bringing data into an app via a CSV file. With integration built directly into the app, the user can upload the file and resolve any semantic conflicts herself, with no assistance from IT. Without it, the user is now reliant on others to do his or her job, and ultimately less productive. Clearly, the better experience is the one that provides users with easy access to everything needed – including data from multiple sources – to get the work done themselves. And the most effective way you can do that is by embedding integration into the application.
Now that we've settled why cloud integration works best as an embedded capability, let's take a closer look at how it works within the application context.
With cloud integration embedded into your app, you can essentially work behind the scenes to connect different data sources and incorporate the mapping and workflows between your app and the universe of enterprise data sources. How it accomplishes that is through abstraction. By abstracting connectivity to these data sources, you take the complexities involved with bringing data from an external source – such as SAP or Salesforce – and place it within a well-defined integration template or Vibe Integration Package (VIP). Once these abstractions are defined, you can then, as an application developer, access these templates through REST API and bring the specified data into your application.
While connectivity abstraction and REST APIs are important on their own, like all great pairings, it is only in combination that their true utility is realized. In fact, taken separately, neither is of much value to the application developer. Alone, a REST API can access the raw data type, but without the abstraction, the information is too unintelligible and incomplete to be of any use. And without the REST API, the abstracted data has no way of getting from the source to the application.
The value that REST APIs together with connectivity abstraction bring cannot be overstated, especially when the connectivity can span multiple integration templates. The mechanism for accomplishing integration is, like an automobile transmission, incredibly complex. To give an analogy, just like a car's shift lever exposes a simple interface to move the gears from Park to Drive, activating a series of complex sensors to make the appropriate motions under the hood, the integration templates allow the user to work with the data in any way they want without ever having to understand or know about the complexities going on underneath.
As the leading cloud integration solution and platform, Informatica Cloud has long recognized the importance of pairing REST APIs and connectivity abstraction.
The first and most important function within our REST API is administration. It enables you to set up your organization and the administration of your users and permissions. The second function allows you to run and monitor integration tasks. And with the third, end users can configure the integration templates themselves, and enforce the business rules to apply for their specific process. You can view the entire set of Informatica Cloud REST API capabilities here.
It is in this last area – integration configurability – where we are truly setting ourselves apart. The Vibe Integration Packages (VIPs) not only abstract backend connectivity but also ensure that the data is complete – with the needed attributes from the underlying apps – and is of high quality and formatted for easy consumption in the end-user application. With the Packages, we've put together many of the most common integrations with reusable integration logic that is configurable through a variety of parameters. Our configurable templates enable your app users to customize and fine-tune their integrations – with custom fields, objects, etc. – to meet the specific behavior and functionality of their integrations. For example, the Salesforce to SAP VIP includes all the integration templates you need to solve different business use cases, such as integrating product, order and account information.
With their reusability and groupings encompassing many of the common integration use cases, our Vibe Integration Packages really are revolutionizing work for everyone. Using Informatica Cloud's Visual Designer, developers can quickly create new, reusable VIPs, with parameterized values, for business users to consume. And SaaS administrators and business analysts can perform complex business integrations in a fraction of the time it took previously, and customize new integrations on the fly, without IT's help.
More and more, developers are building great-looking apps with even greater aspirations. In many cases, the only thing holding them back is the ability to access back-office data without using external tools and interfaces, or outside assistance. With Informatica Cloud, data integration need no longer take a backseat to design, or anything else. Through our REST API, abstractions and Vibe Integration Packages, we help developers put an end to the compromise on user experience by bringing in the data directly through the application – for the benefit of everyone.
Informatica Cloud Summer '14 Release Breaks Down Barriers with Unified Data Integration and Application Integration for Real Time and Bulk Patterns
This past week, Informatica Cloud marked an important milestone with the Summer 2014 release of the Informatica Cloud platform. This was the 20th Cloud release, and I am extremely proud of what our team has accomplished.
"SDL's vision is to help our customers use data insights to create meaningful experiences, regardless of where or how the engagement occurs. It's multilingual, multichannel and on a global scale. Being able to deliver the right information at the right time to the right customer with Informatica Cloud Summer 2014 is critical to our business and will continue to set us apart from our competition."
– Paul Harris, Global Business Applications Director, SDL Pic
When I joined Informatica Cloud, I knew that it had the broadest cloud integration portfolio in the marketplace: leading data integration and analytic capabilities for bulk integration, comprehensive cloud master data management and test data management, and over a hundred connectors for cloud apps, enterprise systems and legacy data sources.. all delivered in a self-service design with point-and-click wizards for citizen integrators, without the need for complex and costly manual custom coding.
But, I also learned that our broad portfolio belies another structural advantage: because of Informatica Cloud's unique, unified platform architecture, it has the ability to surface application (or real time) integration capabilities alongside its data integration capabilities with shared metadata across real time and batch workflows.
With the Summer 2014 release, we've brought our application integration capabilities to the forefront. We now provide the most-complete cloud app integration capability in the marketplace. With a design environment that's meant not for just developers but also line of business IT, now app admins can also build real time process workflows that cut across on-premise and cloud and include built-in human workflows. And with the capability to translate these process workflows instantly into mobile apps for iPhone and Android mobile devices, we're not just setting ourselves apart but also giving customers the unique capabilities they need for their increasingly mobile employees.
"Schneider's strategic initiative to improve front-office performance relied on recording and measuring sales person engagement in real time on any mobile device or desktop. The enhanced real time cloud application integration features of Informatica Cloud Summer 2014 makes it all possible and was key to the success of a highly visible and transformative initiative."
– Mark Nardella, Global Sales Process Director, Schneider Electric SE
With this release, we're also giving customers the ability to create workflows around data sharing that mix and match batch and real time integration patterns. This is really important. Because unlike the past, where you had to choose between batch and real time, in today's world of on-premise, cloud-based, transactional and social data, you're now more than ever having to deal with both real time interactions and the processing of large volumes of data. For example, let's surmise a typical scenario these days at high-end retail stores. Using a clienteling iPad app, the sales rep looks up bulk purchase history and inventory availability data in SAP, confirms availability and delivery date, and then processes the customer's order via real time integration with NetSuite. And if you ask any customer, having a single workflow to unify all of that for instant and actionable insights is a huge advantage.
"Our industry demands absolute efficiency, speed and trust when dealing with financial information, and the new cloud application integration feature in the latest release of Informatica Cloud will help us service our customers more effectively by delivering the data they require in a timely fashion. Keeping call-times to a minimum and improving customer satisfaction in real time."
– Kimberly Jansen, Director CRM, Misys PLC
We've also included some exciting new Vibe Integration packages or VIPs. VIPs deliver pre-built business process mappings between front-office and back-office applications. The Summer 2014 release includes new bidirectional VIPs for Siebel to Salesforce and SAP to Salesforce that make it easier for customers to connect their Salesforce with these mission-critical business applications.
And lastly, but not least importantly, the release includes a critical upgrade to our API Framework that provides the Informatica Cloud iPaaS end-to-end support for connectivity to any company's internal or external APIs. With the newly available API creation, definition and consumption patterns, developers or citizen integrators can now easily expose integrations as APIs and users can consume them via integration workflows or apps, without the need for any additional custom code.
The features and capabilities released this summer are available to all existing Informatica Cloud customers, and everyone else through our free 30-day trial offer.
Moving to the Cloud: 3 Data Integration Facts That Every Enterprise Should Understand
Since the survey was published, many enterprises have, indeed, leveraged the cloud to host business data in both IaaS and SaaS incarnations. Overall, there seems to be two types of enterprises: First are the enterprises that get the value of data integration. They leverage the value of cloud-based systems, and do not create additional data silos. Second are the enterprises that build cloud-based data silos without a sound data integration strategy, and thus take a few steps backward, in terms of effectively leveraging enterprise data.
There are facts about data integration that most in enterprise IT don't yet understand, and the use of cloud-based resources actually makes things worse. The shame of it all is that, with a bit of work and some investment, the value should come back to the enterprises 10 to 20 times over. Let's consider the facts.
Fact 1: Implement new systems, such as those being stood up on public cloud platforms, and any data integration investment comes back 10 to 20 fold. The focus is typically too much on cost and not enough on the benefit, when building a data integration strategy and investing in data integration technology.
Many in enterprise IT point out that their problem domain is unique, and thus their circumstances need special consideration. While I always perform domain-specific calculations, the patterns of value typically remain the same. You should determine the metrics that are right for your enterprise, but the positive values will be fairly consistent, with some varying degrees.
Fact 2: It's not just about data moving from place-to-place, it's also about the proper management of data. This includes a central understanding of data semantics (metadata), and a place to manage a "single version of the truth" when it comes to dealing massive amounts of distributed data that enterprises must typically manage, and now they are also distributed within public clouds.
Most of those who manage enterprise data, cloud or no-cloud, have no common mechanism to deal with the meaning of the data, or even the physical location of the data. While data integration is about moving data from place to place to support core business processes, it should come with a way to manage the data as well. This means understanding, protecting, governing, and leveraging the enterprise data, both locally and within public cloud providers.
Fact 3: Some data belongs on clouds, and some data belongs in the enterprise. Those in enterprise IT have either pushed back on cloud computing, stating that data outside the firewall is a bad idea due to security, performance, legal issues…you name it. Others try to move all data to the cloud. The point of value is somewhere in between.
The fact of the matter is that the public cloud is not the right fit for all data. Enterprise IT must carefully consider the tradeoff between cloud-based and in-house, including performance, security, compliance, etc.. Finding the best location for the data is the same problem we've dealt with for years. Now we have cloud computing as an option. Work from your requirements to the target platform, and you'll find what I've found: Cloud is a fit some of the time, but not all of the time.
Bulletproof Tips to Optimize Data Transformations for Salesforce
In the journey from a single-purpose cloud CRM app to the behemoth that it is today, Salesforce has made many smart acquisitions. However, the recent purchase of RelateIQ may have just been its most ingenious. Although a relatively small startup, RelateIQ has gained a big reputation for its innovative use of data science and predictive analytics, which would be highly beneficial to Salesforce customers.
As relevant from the acquisition, there is little doubt that the cloud application world is making a tectonic shift to data science and the appetite for Big Data to be pieced together to fuel the highly desired 360-degree view is only growing stronger.
But while looking ahead is certainly important, those of us who live in the present have much work yet still to accomplish in the here and now. For many, that means figuring out the best way to leverage data integration strategies and the Salesforce platform to gain actionable intelligence for our sales, marketing and CRM projects – today. Up until recently, this has involved manual, IT-heavy processes.
We need look no further than three common use cases where typical data integration strategies and technologies fail today's business users:
Automated Metadata Discovery
The first, and perhaps most frustrating, has to do with discovering related objects. For example, objects, such as Accounts, don't exist in a vacuum. They have related objects such as Contacts that can provide the business user – be it a salesperson or customer service manager, with context of the customer.
Now, during the typical data-integration process, these related objects are obscured from view because most integration technologies in the market today cannot automatically recognize the object metadata that could potentially relate all of the customer data together. The result is an incomplete view of the customer in Salesforce, and a lost opportunity to leverage the platform's capability to strengthen a relationship or close a deal.
The Informatica Cloud platform is engineered ground up to be aware of the application ecosystem API and understand its metadata. As a result, our mapping engine can automatically discover metadata and relate objects to one another. This automated metadata discovery gives business users the ability to discover, choose and bring all of the related objects together into one mapping flow. Now, with a just a few clicks, business users, can quickly piece together relevant information in Salesforce and take the appropriate action.
Bulk Preparation of Data
The second instance where most data integration solutions typically fall short is with respect to the bulk preparation of data for analytic runs prior to the data transformation process. With the majority of Line-of-Business (LOB) applications now being run in the cloud, the typical business user has multiple terabytes of cloud data that either need to be warehoused on-premise or in the cloud, for a BI app to perform its analytics.
As a result, the best practice for bringing in data for analytics requires the ability to select and aggregate multiple data records from multiple data sources into a single batch, to speed up transformation and loading and – ultimately – intelligence gathering. Unfortunately, advanced transformations such as aggregations are something that is simply beyond the capabilities of most other integration technologies. Instead, most bring the data in one record or message at time, inhibiting speedy data loading and delivery of critical intelligence to business users when they need it most.
Alternatively, Informatica has leveraged its intellectual property in the market-leading data integration product, PowerCenter, and developed data aggregation transformation functionality within Informatica Cloud. This enables business users to pick a select group of important data points from multiple data sources – for example, country or dollar size of revenue opportunities – to aggregate and quickly process huge volumes in a single batch.
In-App Business Accelerators
Similar to what we've experienced with the mobile iOS and Android platforms, there recently has been an explosion of new, single-purpose business applications being developed and released for the cloud. While the platform-specific mobile model is predicated on and has flourished because of the "build it and they will come" premise, the paradigm does not work in the same way for cloud-based applications that are trying to become a platform.
The reason for this is that, unlike with iOS and Android platforms, in the cloud world, business users have a main LOB application that they are familiar with and rely on packaged integrations to bring in from other LOB cloud applications. However, with Salesforce extending its reach to become a cloud platform, the center of data gravity is shifting towards it being used for more than just CRM and the success of this depends upon these packaged integrations. Up until now, these integrations have just consisted of sample code and have been incredibly complex (and IT-heavy) to build and very cumbersome to use. As a result, business users lack the agility to easily customize fields or their workflows to match their unique business processes. Ultimately, the packages that were intended to accelerate business ended up inhibiting it.
Informatica Cloud's Vibe Integration Packages (or VIPs) have made the promise of the integration package as a business accelerator into a reality, for all business users. Unlike sample code, VIPs are sophisticated templates that encapsulate the intelligence or logic of how you integrate the data between apps. While VIPs abstract complexity to give users out-of-the box integration, their pre-built mapping also provides great flexibility. Now, with just a few keystrokes, business users can map custom fields or leverage their unique business model into their Salesforce workflows.
A few paragraphs back I began this discussion with the recent acquisition of RelateIQ by Salesforce. While we can make an educated guess as to what that will bring in the future, no one knows for sure. What we do know is that, at present, Salesforce's completeness as a platform – and source of meaningful analytics – requires something in addition to run your relevant business applications and solutions through it. A complete iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) solution such as Informatica Cloud has the power to make the vision into reality. Informatica enables this through the meta-data rich platform for data discovery, Industry leading data and application integration capabilities and business accelerators that put the power back in the hands of citizen application integrators and business users.
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The State of Salesforce Report: Trends, Data, and What's Next
A guest post by Jonathan Staley, Product Marketing Manager at Bluewolf Beyond, a consulting practice focused on innovating live cloud environments.
Now in its third year (2012, 2013), The State of Salesforce Annual Review continues to be the most comprehensive report on the Salesforce ecosystem. Based on the data from over 1,000 global Salesforce users, this report highlights how companies are using the Salesforce platform, where resources are being allocated, and where industry hype meets reality. Over the past three years, the report has evolved much like the technology, shifting and transforming to address recent advancements, and well as tracking longitudinal trends in the space.
We've found that key integration partners like Informatica Cloud continue to grow in importance within the Salesforce ecosystem. Beyond the core platform offerings from Salesforce, third-party apps and integration technologies have received considerable attention as companies look to extend the value of their initial investments and unite systems. The need to sync multiple platforms and applications is an emerging need in the Salesforce ecosystem—which will be highlighted in the 2014 report.
As Salesforce usage expands, so does our approach to survey execution. In line with this evolution, here's what we've learned over the last three years from data collection:
Functions, Departments Make a Difference
Sales, Marketing, IT, and Service all have their own needs and pain points. As Salesforce moves quickly across the enterprise, we want to recognize the values, priorities, and investments by each department. Not only are the primary clouds for each function at different stages of maturity, but the ways in which each department uses their cloud are unique. We anticipate discovery of how enterprises are collaborating across functions and clouds.
Focus on Region
As our international data set continues to grow we are investing in regionalized reports for the US, UK, France, and Australia. While we saw indications of differences between each region in last year's survey, they were not statistically significant.
Customer Engagement is a Top Priority
Everyone agrees that customer engagement is important, but what are companies actually doing about it? A section on predictive analytics and questions about engagement specific to departments has been included in this year's survey. We suspect that the recent trend of companies empowering employees with a combination of data and mobile will be validated in the survey results.
Variation Across Industries
As an added bonus, we will build a report targeting specific insights from the Financial Services industry.
We Need Your Help
Our dataset depends on input from Salesforce users spanning all functions, roles, industries, and regions. Every response matters. Please take 15 minutes to share your Salesforce experiences, and you will receive a personalized report, comparing your responses to the aggregate survey results.


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November 28, 2014
Michael Phelps' longtime coach has a new job - consultant.
Bob Bowman, who guided Phelps to a record 18 golds and 22 medals overall at the Olympics, has joined TSE Consulting in its sports performance division.
Phelps retired after winning his last six medals at the London Games, becoming the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. Bowman plans to take at least a year off from coaching.
TSE is headed by Steve Roush, former chief of sports performance for the U.S. Olympic Committee. The company reviewed Russia's performance after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and is working with the Brazilian Olympic Committee as the country prepares to host the next Summer Games in Rio.
Bowman says he hopes to "make a positive contribution to the development of swimming worldwide."
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As most of you know, I have been having computer problems for a while now. I'd get the laptop "fixed", would use it for a while, then it would go all blue-screen on me yet again. This last episode was it's final gasp, and the laptop that had served me (and others before me) so well for about 10 years was officially pronounced as crashed and unrecoverable. So I have been without a computer and unable to get online and Spark for what seems like forever (a little over a week, lol).
I was surprised to find out that I missed my Spark time. I found myself maneuvering my schedule so I could visit various friends and somehow work in a request to use their computer so I could check my online stuff for a few minutes. Once online, I would quickly give my email a glance, but then would high-tail it to Spark People and try to cram all my Spark tasks into those few precious minutes. (As most of you know, Sparking is often not a sprint but a marathon in terms of time spent, so I always left these borrowed computer sessions feeling frustrated by all the things I didn't have time to do.)
Apparently I do more on the Spark site than I realized---and I now know that my Spark time means more to me than just spinning the wheel, tracking my food, tracking my exercise, etc. I felt very frustrated by not having the time to read and respond to my friends' blogs or postings, and I realized that these new connections had become very meaningful for me. The support I receive from Sparking is now an important part of my overall health and wellness experience, and the connections I have discovered here help sustain me, motivate me, and encourage me.
I am in the process of scraping together some money to get a used, refurbished computer (really can't afford one of the new ones....wish I could, so many cool bells and whistles on the new ones...oh well). So hopefully by this time next week, I will have an easier time getting online to enjoy some Spark time.
Thanks to all of you who have written messages, emails, and sent spark goodies to me during my Spark absence. I appreciate all the support!
I'm not really a blogging type of gal, tending to keep a lot of my "stuff" to myself. But right now I find that my fear about a situation is greater than my reluctance to blog....so here's my first attempt at this puzzling activity.
Over the past 5+ years, I have gradually lost over 100 pounds. The extremely slow and frustrating progress was due in large part to the limitations of several chronic and progressive conditions where my activity is often very much curtailed. But bit by bit I was able to do a little more, and during the last 6 months of 2012, I had actually begun to enjoy some relief from the degree of pain and weakness, and had even gotten a part time job that supplemented an extremely tight budget. Things were good. But then I got this flu and then a bout with bronchitis---and all the physical gains that took years to achieve seem to have been wiped away. I am alarmingly weak, and a specialist that treats one of my chronic conditions said that there is a strong possibility that my muscles will never be able to fully recover to the point I was before, and it is imperative that I take my recovery process in a slow and steady manner. Did I mention that (especially as I age), patience is not my best thing?
Now I am back at another starting line, and have a long road ahead of me to regain some degree of my previous stamina and functioning. And yes, I am whining. I am very frustrated. I want to be back at work, I want to get back to my exercise class, AND I do NOT WANT TO GAIN BACK THE WEIGHT!.
My previous weight loss had been mostly dependent on the very hard-earned and slow increase in the movement I could do. It had taken years of effort to progress to a level of movement where I counter the weight-gaining effects of several medications and expend more calories than I took in. Now my movement and strength are curtailed again, and in just the past weeks of my recovery from the recent flu and bronchitis, I discover that I have started to show a slow weight gain. NOOOOOOO!!!!
My diet already follows the nutritionist's recommendations for someone with certain conditions (like HBP, high cholesterol, pre-diabetes), and some other conditions that require certain dietary elements to be included or excluded. There is very little wiggle room for things to exclude. The variable that permitted the previous weight loss was the element of exercise. This subject was discussed at my recent doctor appointment, and the advice was to be patient while my body recovers....and (gasp) not worry about gaining a bit of weight. Am I the only one who views re-gaining the weight (for any reason or for any length of time) with TERROR?
I'm really just venting a bit of frustration here. I've been in this position before in my life, and eventually I find the strength and wherewithal to overcome whatever challenge I have. I'm sure, with a bit of time, I'll reach a point where I'll just face the realityof what I am faced with now and deal with it. But for today, I am frustrated, mad, discouraged, and doubting my ability (or desire) to go through this complicated journey of dealing with weight issues yet again. Without the element of exercise, I feel lost.
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The outdoors….makes me happy! What about you?
My entire family loves being outdoors. We camp, ride bikes, play, swim, hike and do so much more. All of it outside! It is hot and sunny here in Georgia, as it will be for most of the summer, and we tend to spend a lot of time outdoors.
In fact, check out the picture above. I lead two Girl Scout troops and this was our Brownies first campout. We played lots of games, taught the girls how to make dinner and clean up, stayed up late roasting marshmallows and had the most amazing time. The girls are still asking to camp again and we have our next campout planned for September.
My son is a Boy Scout who camps frequently with his pack. He leaves next week for his first sleep away camp for a week.
One thing we always make sure to do when the kids are doing any outdoor activity is to do what we can to protect them from bug bites, and we rely on OFF!®mosquito repellents to get the job done! Here in Georgia, we have lots of mosquitoes and other pesky insects that are around all the time it seems. I rarely go outside at night without some sort of OFF!® protection. I mean who wants to get all eaten up with mosquitoes? NOT ME!
I am really excited to partner with OFF!® this summer for National Get Outdoors Day which is coming up on June 14, 2014. My family and I are going camping for the night and participating in some really fun activities the next day. We cannot wait!
"Get Outdoors Day is an outgrowth of the Get Outdoors USA! campaign, which encourages Americans, especially our youth, to seek out active outdoor lives and embrace our parks, forests, refuges and other public lands and waters."
On Saturday, June 14th at Sweetwater Creek State Park, Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites wants families and friends of all ages to re-connect with nature. There will be lots of free, fun activities for all ages and comfort levels.
This admission-free day of outdoor fun promises to keep everyone entertained with a variety of outdoor activities including kayaking, stand up paddleboarding, field games, geocaching, tree climbing and more.
The OFF!® tent will offer fun outdoor-themed giveaways, fun facts and a photo booth. They will even have tips and tools for protecting yourself against mosquitoes and ticks during the buggy summer season, which is always something we need help with here in Georgia.
OFF!® is also sponsoring an on-site fishing pond where campers to try their luck at catching catfish. How fun is that?
All activities and events are free for all ages. Learn more about the National Get Outdoors Day celebration at Sweetwater Creek State Park.
No worries, you can have a campout of your very own. We have camped in our backyard and camped at a neighbor's house. My Girl Scout troop camped in a backyard spot, as well.
You can even campout in your living room (although nothing is as much fun as the great outdoors).
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Preheat the oven to 350˚ F. Line baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Whisk lightly to blend. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the brown sugar and butter. Beat on medium-high speed until smooth and light, about 2-3 minutes. Blend in the egg and the vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, blend in the dry ingredients just until incorporated. Blend in the oats and grated carrot just until evenly mixed in.
Scoop apporximately 1 tablespoon portions of the dough out onto the prepared baking sheets leaving about 2 inches between each cookie. Bake, rotating the sheets halfway through baking, until the cookies are just set and lightly browned, about 14 minutes total. Let cool on the baking sheets a few minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with the remaining dough.
Combine the cream cheese and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Add in the confectioners' sugar and mix on low speed just until incorporated. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat 2-3 minutes more. Blend in the vanilla. Transfer to a pastry bag fitted with a plain round tip (I used an Ateco #809.) To assemble, pair the cookies up by size. Pipe a small dollop of the frosting onto the flat side of one cookie of each pair, and sandwich together with the remaining cookie.
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November 23, 2014
What: Paul Mooney
When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26
Where: Funny Bone Comedy Club, 17305 Davenport St., Village Pointe
On WEDNESDAY (Feb. 26), the Bone will feature a special engagement starring legendary – and often controversial – comedian and writer Paul Mooney. The veteran stand-up made a name for himself as longtime writer for Richard Pryor. He also wrote for "Sanford & Son" and "Good Times," and was the head writer for the first season of "In Living Color" (Homey the Clown was his creation). He later starred as a regular on "Chappelle's Show."
This show is not for those easily offended, says the Funny Bone.
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all frute salid with no tomatoes.
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|Initial release
|13 February 2002
|Stable release
|4.5.2 (4.5.51209.34209) / 6 May 2014
|Operating system
|Windows 98 or later, Windows NT 4.0 or later
|Software framework
|Proprietary; FCL under Microsoft Reference Source License[1]
|Initial release
|13 February 2002
|Stable release
|4.5.2 (4.5.51209.34209) / 6 May 2014
|Operating system
|Windows 98 or later, Windows NT 4.0 or later
|Software framework
|Proprietary; FCL under Microsoft Reference Source License[1]
.NET Framework (pronounced dot net) is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large class library known as Framework Class Library (FCL) and provides language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages) across several programming languages. Programs written for .NET Framework execute in a software environment (as contrasted to hardware environment), known as Common Language Runtime (CLR), an application virtual machine that provides services such as security, memory management, and exception handling. FCL and CLR together constitute .NET Framework.
FCL provides user interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications. Programmers produce software by combining their own source code with .NET Framework and other libraries. .NET Framework is intended to be used by most new applications created for Windows platform. Microsoft also produces an integrated development environment largely for .NET software called Visual Studio.
Microsoft started development of .NET Framework in the late 1990s, originally under the name of Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS). By late 2000, the first beta versions of .NET 1.0 were released.
Version 3.0 of .NET Framework is included with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. Version 3.5 is included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and can also be installed on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.[2] On 12 April 2010, .NET Framework 4 was released alongside Visual Studio 2010.
.NET Framework family also includes two versions for mobile or embedded device use. A reduced version of the framework, .NET Compact Framework, is available on Windows CE platforms, including Windows Mobile devices such as smartphones. Additionally, .NET Micro Framework is targeted at severely resource-constrained devices.
|Distributed with
|Windows Server
|Visual Studio .NET
|Visual Studio .NET 2003
|Visual Studio 2005
|Microsoft Blend
|Visual Studio 2008
|7, 8, 8.1
|2.0, 3.0
|Visual Studio 2010
|Visual Studio 2012
|Visual Studio 2013
|4.0, 4.5
|Visual Studio 2013
|4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1
Windows XP was delivered without any versions of the .Net Framework.[4]
System.Runtime.InteropServices and
System.EnterpriseServices namespaces of the framework; access to other functionality is achieved using the P/Invoke feature.
The purpose of CLI is to provide a language-neutral platform for application development and execution, including functions for exception handling, garbage collection, security, and interoperability. By implementing the core aspects of .NET Framework within the scope of CLI, this functionality will not be tied to a single language but will be available across the many languages supported by the framework. Microsoft's implementation of CLI is CLR.
Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code is housed in CLI assemblies. As mandated by the specification, assemblies are stored in Portable Executable (PE) format, common on Windows platform for all DLL and EXE files. The assembly consists of one or more files, one of which must contain the manifest, which has the metadata for the assembly. The complete name of an assembly (not to be confused with the filename on disk) contains its simple text name, version number, culture, and public key token. Assemblies are considered equivalent if they share the same complete name, excluding the revision of the version number. A private key can also be used by the creator of the assembly for strong naming. The public key token identifies which private key an assembly is signed with. Only the creator of the keypair (typically .NET developer signing the assembly) can sign assemblies that have the same strong name as a previous version assembly, since the creator is in possession of the private key. Strong naming is required to add assemblies to Global Assembly Cache.
.NET has its own security mechanism with two general features: Code Access Security (CAS), and validation and verification. CAS is based on evidence that is associated with a specific assembly. Typically the evidence is the source of the assembly (whether it is installed on the local machine or has been downloaded from the intranet or Internet). CAS uses evidence to determine the permissions granted to the code. Other code can demand that calling code is granted a specified permission. The demand causes CLR to perform a call stack walk: every assembly of each method in the call stack is checked for the required permission; if any assembly is not granted the permission a security exception is thrown.
|Namespaces in the FCL[11]
.NET Framework includes a set of standard class libraries. The class library is organized in a hierarchy of namespaces. Most of the built-in APIs are part of either
System.* or
Microsoft.* namespaces. These class libraries implement a large number of common functions, such as file reading and writing, graphic rendering, database interaction, and XML document manipulation, among others. .NET class libraries are available to all CLI compliant languages. .NET Framework class library is divided into two parts: FCL and Base Class Library.
FCL includes a small subset of the entire class library and is the core set of classes that serve as the basic API of CLR.[11] Classes in
mscorlib.dll and some classes in
System.dll and
System.core.dll are part of FCL. FCL classes are available in .NET Framework as well as its alternative implementations including .NET Compact Framework, Microsoft Silverlight and Mono.
BCL is a superset of FCL and refers to the entire class library that ships with .NET Framework. It includes an expanded set of libraries, including Windows Forms, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Language Integrated Query, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation among others. BCL is much larger in scope than standard libraries for languages like C++, and comparable in scope to standard libraries of Java.
CLR frees the developer from the burden of managing memory (allocating and freeing up when done); it handles memory management itself by detecting when memory can be safely freed. Instantiations of .NET types (objects) are allocated from the managed heap; a pool of memory managed by CLR. As long as there exists a reference to an object, which might be either a direct reference to an object or via a graph of objects, the object is considered to be in use. When there is no reference to an object, and it cannot be reached or used, it becomes garbage, eligible for collection. .NET Framework includes a garbage collector which runs periodically, on a separate thread from the application's thread, that enumerates all the unusable objects and reclaims the memory allocated to them.
.NET Garbage Collector (GC) is a non-deterministic, compacting, mark-and-sweep garbage collector. GC runs only when a certain amount of memory has been used or there is enough pressure for memory on the system. Since it is not guaranteed when the conditions to reclaim memory are reached, GC runs are non-deterministic. Each .NET application has a set of roots, which are pointers to objects on the managed heap (managed objects). These include references to static objects and objects defined as local variables or method parameters currently in scope, as well as objects referred to by CPU registers.[12] When GC runs, it pauses the application, and for each object referred to in the root, it recursively enumerates all the objects reachable from the root objects and marks them as reachable. It uses CLI metadata and reflection to discover the objects encapsulated by an object, and then recursively walk them. It then enumerates all the objects on the heap (which were initially allocated contiguously) using reflection. All objects not marked as reachable are garbage.[12] This is the mark phase.[13] Since the memory held by garbage is not of any consequence, it is considered free space. However, this leaves chunks of free space between objects which were initially contiguous. The objects are then compacted together to make used memory contiguous again.[12][13] Any reference to an object invalidated by moving the object is updated by GC to reflect the new location.[13] The application is resumed after the garbage collection is over.
GC used by .NET Framework is also generational.[14] Objects are assigned a generation; newly created objects belong to Generation 0. The objects that survive a garbage collection are tagged as Generation 1, and the Generation 1 objects that survive another collection are Generation 2 objects. .NET Framework uses up to Generation 2 objects.[14] Higher generation objects are garbage collected less frequently than lower generation objects. This helps increase the efficiency of garbage collection, as older objects tend to have a longer lifetime than newer objects.[14] Thus, by eliminating older (and thus more likely to survive a collection) objects from the scope of a collection run, fewer objects need to be checked and compacted.[14]
In August 2000, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel worked to standardize CLI and C#. By December 2001, both were ratified ECMA standards.[15][16] ISO followed in April 2003. The current version of ISO standards are ISO/IEC 23271:2012 and ISO/IEC 23270:2006.[17][18]
While Microsoft and their partners hold patents for CLI and C#, ECMA and ISO require that all patents essential to implementation be made available under "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms". In addition to meeting these terms, the companies have agreed to make the patents available royalty-free. However, this does not apply for the part of .NET Framework which is not covered by ECMA/ISO standard, which includes Windows Forms, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET. Patents that Microsoft holds in these areas may deter non-Microsoft implementations of the full framework.[19]
On 3 October 2007, Microsoft announced that much of the source code for .NET Framework Framework Class Library (including ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Windows Presentation Foundation) was to have been made available with the final release of Visual Studio 2008 towards the end of 2007 under the shared source Microsoft Reference License.[1] The source code for other libraries including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and Language Integrated Query (LINQ) were to be added in future releases. Being released under the closed-source Microsoft Reference License means this source code is made available for debugging purpose only, primarily to support integrated debugging of FCL in Visual Studio.
.NET Framework is the predominant implementation of .NET technologies. Other implementations for parts of the framework exist. Although the runtime engine is described by an ECMA/ISO specification, other implementations of it may be encumbered by patent issues; ISO standards may include the disclaimer, "Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights."[20] It is more difficult to develop alternatives to FCL, which is not described by an open standard and may be subject to copyright restrictions. Additionally, parts of FCL have Windows-specific functionality and behavior, so implementation on non-Windows platforms can be problematic.
Some alternative implementations of parts of the framework are listed here.
The garbage collector, which is integrated into the environment, can introduce unanticipated delays of execution over which the developer has little direct control. "In large applications, the number of objects that the garbage collector needs to deal with can become very large, which means it can take a very long time to visit and rearrange all of them."[23]
.NET Framework provides support for calling Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) via managed code from April 2014 in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. However, Mono has provided support for SIMD Extensions as of version 2.2 within the Mono.Simd namespace; before. Mono's lead developer Miguel de Icaza has expressed hope that this SIMD support will be adopted by CLR's ECMA standard.[24] Streaming SIMD Extensions have been available in x86 CPUs since the introduction of the Pentium III. Some other architectures such as ARM and MIPS also have SIMD extensions. In case the CPU lacks support for those extensions, the instructions are simulated in software.[citation needed]
Unobfuscated managed CIL bytecode can often be easier to reverse-engineer than native code.[25][26] NET decompiler programs enable developers with no reverse-engineering skills to view the source code behind unobfuscated .NET assemblies (DLL/EXE). In contrast, applications built with Visual C++ are much harder to reverse-engineer and source code is almost never produced successfully, mainly due to compiler optimizations and lack of reflection.[citation needed] One concern is over possible loss of trade secrets and the bypassing of license control mechanisms. To mitigate this, Microsoft has included Dotfuscator Community Edition with Visual Studio .NET since 2002.[27] Third-party obfuscation tools are also available from vendors such as vmware, V.i. Labs, Xenocode, Red Gate Software. Method-level encryption tools for .NET code are available from vendors such as SafeNet.
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About the MoS
The Ministry of Stories is a creative writing and mentoring centre for young people in east London. We use storytelling to inspire young people aged 8-18, in the belief that writing unleashes their imaginations and builds confidence, self-respect and communication.
Nick Hornby, Lucy Macnab and Ben Payne founded the Ministry of Stories in 2010. In its first year, over 3000 young people took part in our volunteer-led workshops and writing projects. Our inspiration came from the writer Dave Eggers and educator Ninive Calegari, who opened a shop for pirates and writing centre called 826 Valencia in San Francisco.
To find us, you'll need to go through Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, Purveyor of Quality Goods for Monsters of Every Kind...
For more details about the Ministry, read our FAQs.
To see some of the amazing people involved in the Ministry, click here.
What are
we here for?
The Ministry of Stories was founded by Nick Hornby and co-directors Lucy Macnab and Ben Payne. Hidden away at the back of The Monster Shop (where else would you expect it?), the Ministry of Stories provides a free space for fresh writing by young people. Here in Hoxton we provide workshops and one-to-one mentoring. The services are provided by volunteers: local writers, artists and teachers, all giving their time and talent for free.
The MoS is inspired by young people, and aims to inspire them to transform their lives through writing. We work closely with schools, supporting the work of teachers, but our great benefit is that we provide one-to-one mentoring for young people to enjoy imaginative stories, improve language skills, increase abilities in communication, add to social and educational confidence.
Welcome to the
Ministry of Stories
We are an organisation dedicated to the creation of stories by a new storytelling generation.
Fire your imagination, have a look around and get involved.
Dispatches from The Ministry
Latest news, updates and announcements.
New project! Help us with Story Engine
The Ministry is embarking on a digital adventure and we'd like your company…
We're looking for teachers, schools and volunteers to join us in developing an online creative writing platform for 11-12
Jobs: Community Engagement Coordinator
There's strength, creativity and need in our neighbourhood. Listen, adapt and organise our work so it engages with our local community through our writing programmes.
The Ministry
What's on our mind as we go about our storytelling business.
Milk Tooth – write your own ending!
Milk Tooth is the deliciously new and very first chocolate bar produced by Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, the purveyor of quality goods for monsters of all kinds since 1818.
Planting Poetry
We've just finished a most marvellous project, Planting Poetry, with William Patten Primary School in Stoke Newington.
A Nation of Storytellers
Enjoy some of the amazing stories that are flying out of the Ministry.
The World of Kaboom!
KABOOM! What happened?
"Alex! Get up! You're going to be late for school again!"
There's Magic in the Air
One day there was a person called George, and he went in a castle, and he saw Rosie. In the night time Rosie wanted to go to the toilet, and she heard something
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Your F-1 student status permits you to work on campus at the college that issued your I-20 while you are enrolled in a full course of study. Your Manhattanville I-20 is your proof of work eligibility for on-campus employment at Manhattanville. You must maintain F-1 status to be eligible for this employment benefit; maintaining status means that you are a full-time registered student in good academic standing with a valid I-20. You must come to the OISS before attempting to go to Social Security.
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Curricular Practical Training (CPT) is temporary authorization for practical training directly related to your major field of study. Your major field of study is listed on your I-20. "Practical training" at the undergraduate level can include employment, internship experience (paid or unpaid) that is done for academic credit. CPT is authorized by the OISS office in accordance with the F-1 regulations. You can apply for CPT during the regular academic year (you must remain registered full-time) and during your annual vacation. You must have declared your major and have completed 30 credits to be eligible.
CPT may be part-time (20 hours per week or less) or full-time (more than 20 hours per week). If you accumulate 12 months of full-time CPT authorization, you lose your eligibility for Optional Practical Training (OPT), another type of employment authorization for F-1 students. Part-time CPT and fewer than 12 months of full-time CPT authorization does not affect your OPT eligibility.
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Optional Practical Training (OPT) is temporary employment authorization allowing F-1 students the opportunity to gain practical experience in their field of study. OPT is most often awarded upon completion of an academic degree, for a 12-month period. However, you may request pre-completion OPT under certain circumstances. For details visit the OISS.
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The following employment options are available provided you are in good academic standing and are enrolled in a full course of study except for official school breaks and the annual vacation. You must receive employment authorization in advance by notifying your primary OISS advisor of your job offer (instructions are below).
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Academic Training is work related to your field of study and may be paid or unpaid. You may be authorized to participate in Academic Training during your studies or commencing not later than 30 days after completion of studies. Employment for Academic Training has an overall limit of 18 months, which includes training both before and after completion of studies. However, the total training period may not exceed the amount of time spent in the full course of study. All Academic Training is counted as full-time, even if employment is on a part-time basis. You must have a job to apply and Academic Training is continuous – meaning once started it will run the full length.
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Last week, DRLC submitted a letter to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors regarding alternatives to incarceration. DRLC urges the County to support policies and practices that implement treatment for people with mental illness, while also making sustained financial commitments to rehabilitation programs that will help reduce recidivism and increase public safety.
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DRLC's recent lawsuit, co-counseling with the Law Office of John Burton, against the City of Hawthorne and the Hawthorne Police Department for unlawfully assaulting and brutally tazering an architect who is profoundly deaf has generated press coverage across the country.
Click here for the story as reported by CBS, which features an interview with DRLC Staff Attorney Anna Rivera, who represents architect Jonathan Meister.
On February 26, 2013, Judge Consuelo B. Marshall issued an order granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Approval of the Class Action Settlement between DRLC and co-counsel Disability Rights Advocates (DRA), and the County of Los Angeles in the precedent setting emergency management planning case Communities Actively Living Independent and Free, et al. v.
On February 25, 2013, DRLC filed suit against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and MTA contractor Veolia Transportation Services, Inc. alleging disability discrimination against individuals who use wheelchairs in the provision of fixed route bus services.
Press Releases
Marking the last day of Deaf Awareness Month, Disability Rights Legal Center (DLRC) filed a federal class action lawsuit against Krikorian Premiere Theaters alleging discrimination against deaf and hard-of-hearing patrons.
On Friday, February 8th, DRLC filed a due process complaint and request for due process hearing against the Ontario Montclair School District alleging that the district failed to identify the Petitioner as a student with disabilities pursuant to California Education Code section 56300 and 56301, as well as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
On Wednesday, February 13th, DRLC filed a special education administrative due process complaint with the California Office of Administrative Hearings against Desert Sands Unified School District. The claim was filed on behalf of a 7-year old student diagnosed with learning disabilities who attends Gerald R. Ford Elementary School, and charges that the District failed to provide the young student with special education and related services as required by federal and state law.


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UFS Investment Company - Daily review of the debt markets, Jul 23, 2012.
On Friday Russian Eurobonds were mainly in decline due to new negative news from Europe. Decline in the sovereign sector totaled 0.3% on average, whereas the fall in most corporate Eurobonds didn't exceed 0.1%.
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American indices settled down on Friday. S&P500 slid 1.01%; Dow Jones Dow Jones
the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202]
See : Finance dropped 0.93%. Brazilian index Bovespa decreased 2.08%.
European indices closed down as well. FUTSEE 100 lost 1.09%, DAX edged down 1.90%, French CAC See Consumer Advisory Council. 40 went down 2.14%.
The contract for Light Sweet closed down 0.90% as well as Brent. Today Light Sweet is traded at $90.2 (-1.78%); Brent is $105.31 (-1.42%). The spread between Brent and Light Sweet slightly narrowed to $15.11.
Precious metals trade on a negative note. Gold is $1576.15 per troy ounce Noun 1. troy ounce - a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound
apothecaries' ounce, ounce
troy unit - any of the unit of the troy system of weights ; white metal dipped to $27.02. AU/AG ratio slightly rose to 58.33.
Key Statistics Today:
Cabinet Office Monthly Economic Report (Japan);
Chicago Federal National Activity Index (16:30);
Eurozone Eurozone
same as Euroland
Eurozone n → eurozona, zona euro
Eurozone n → zona euro Consumer Confidence (18:00).
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Inflation in Germany continues rapid decelerating: producer prices added just 1.6% in June which is worse than 2.1% growth in May. Just a year before producer price growth was 5.6% y/y. In June producer prices declined 0.4% m/m.
Russian Eurobonds After a few weeks of relative slackness European debt market entered the new phase of aggravation. On Friday fears suddenly grew over Spain after news came that one of the largest Spanish regions,Valencia, will probably request financial aid from the Spanish government
- Chief of State
- King Juan Carlos I, since November 22 1975
- Head of Government
- President of the Government: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, elected 14 March 2004.
euros, since it is unable to service its debt. It made the market worried that the Spanish government will probably have to ask EU aid not only for banking system recapitalization but also for budget financing.
As a consequence, EUR/USD dropped to the two-year minimum of 1.2094 which caused a selling wave in stock and debt emerging markets. Russian sovereign Eurobonds responded to the negative news with sharper dynamics than
corporate bonds. Russia-30 lost 0.45% dipping to 124.0% of the nominal. 5-year Russian CDS cost rose 7 b. p. to 192 b. p.
Prices of corporate Eurobonds changed insignificantly with decline not exceeding 0.1% in most bonds. However, some long issues reacted to the external negative. Thus, Vimpelcom-18 and Vimpelcom-21 lost about 0.4%. In the oil and gas
sector LUKOIL underperformed, notable Lukoil-17 and Lukoil-20 went down 0.3%. Long-term bonds of Severstal, Sberbank as well as MTS-20 decline by more than 0.2%.
On Monday morning negative background prevailed in the market. Brent decreased by more than 2.0% on the negative news from Europe and fears of further Chinese economic slowdown. European stock markets opened with a more than
1.0% decline, while Russia-30 plummeted 0.8% in the morning. Evidently, today Russian Eurobonds will close with a deep collapse. The negative dynamics is likely to persist during the week.
Foreign Bonds
As we mentioned above, fears of probable Valencia's need for the government's aid for debt service triggered decline in most markets on Friday. Besides, it caused a drastic growth of Spanish bonds' yields. Thus, the yield on Spanish 10-year
shot to 7.5% (!), which is the all-time maximum since the moment of the country's entrance in the currency union. Meanwhile, the yields on 2-year bonds of Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland got into the negative territory reflecting the flight to quality.
It is not only Spain that raises concerns - Greece is worrisome again. Troika auditors will arrive to Athens on Tuesday to check financial system and the reform implementation. It is already clear that Greece didn't manage to achieve the target readings and carry out the necessary reforms owing to deep recession and political uncertainty in May-June. Mass media report the country will need additional budget infusions of 10-50 billion euros. Earlier IMF IMF
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2. more funds than agreed by now.
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