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Hadoop, Enterprise Data Hubs, and You
This post was written by guest author Dale Kim, Director of Industry Solutions at MapR Technologies, a valued Informatica partner that provides a distribution for Apache Hadoop that ensures production success for its customers.
Apache Hadoop is growing in popularity as the foundation for an enterprise data hub. An Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) extends and optimizes the traditional data warehouse model by adding complementary big data technologies. It focuses your data warehouse on high value data by reallocating less frequently used data to an alternative platform. It also aggregates data from previously untapped sources to give you a more complete picture of data.
So you have your data, your warehouses, your analytical tools, your Informatica products, and you want to deploy an EDH… now what about Hadoop?
Requirements for Hadoop in an Enterprise Data Hub
Let's look at characteristics required to meet your EDH needs for a production environment:
- Enterprise-grade
- Interoperability
- Multi-tenancy
- Security
- Operational
You already expect these from your existing enterprise deployments. Shouldn't you hold Hadoop to the same standards? Let's discuss each topic:
Enterprise-grade is about the features that keep a system running, i.e., high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and data protection. HA helps a system run even when components (e.g., computers, routers, power supplies) fail. In Hadoop, this means no downtime and no data loss, but also no work loss. If a node fails, you still want jobs to run to completion. DR with remote replication or mirroring guards against site-wide disasters. Mirroring needs to be consistent to ensure recovery to a known state. Using file copy tools won't cut it. And data protection, using snapshots, lets you recover from data corruption, especially from user or application errors. As with DR replicas, snapshots must be consistent, in that they must reflect the state of the data at the time the snapshot was taken. Not all Hadoop distributions can offer this guarantee.
Hadoop interoperability is an obvious necessity. Features like a POSIX-compliant, NFS-accessible file system let you reuse existing, file system-based applications on Hadoop data. Support for existing tools lets your developers get up to speed quickly. And integration with REST APIs enables easy, open connectivity with other systems.
You should be able to logically divide clusters to support different use cases, job types, user group, and administrators as needed. To avoid a complex, multi-cluster setup, choose a Hadoop distribution with multi-tenancy capabilities to simplify the architecture. This gives you less risk for error and no data/effort duplication.
Security should be a priority to protect against the exposure of confidential data. You should assess how you'll handle authentication (with or without Kerberos), authorization (access controls), over-the-network encryption, and auditing. Many of these features should be native to your Hadoop distribution, and there are also strong security vendors that provide technologies for securing Hadoop.
Any large scale deployment needs fast read, write, and update capabilities. Hadoop can support the operational requirements of an EDH with integrated, in-Hadoop databases like Apache HBase™ and Accumulo™, as well as MapR-DB (the MapR NoSQL database). This in-Hadoop model helps to simplify the overall EDH architecture.
Using Hadoop as a foundation for an EDH is a powerful option for businesses. Choosing the correct Hadoop distribution is the key to deploying a successful EDH. Be sure not to take shortcuts – especially in a production environment – as you will want to hold your Hadoop platform to the same high expectations you have of your existing enterprise systems.
Scary Times For Data Security
How are they accomplishing this? A new generation of hackers has learned to reverse engineer popular software programs (e.g. Windows, Outlook Java, etc.) in order to find so called "holes". Once those holes are exploited, the hackers develop "bugs" that infiltrate computer systems, search for sensitive data and return it to the bad guys. These bugs are then sold in the black market to the highest bidder. When successful, these hackers can wreak havoc across the globe.
I recently read a Time Magazine article titled "World War Zero: How Hackers Fight to Steal Your Secrets." The article discussed a new generation of software companies made up of former hackers. These firms help other software companies by identifying potential security holes, before they can be used in malicious exploits.
This constant battle between good (data and software security firms) and bad (smart, young, programmers looking to make a quick/big buck) is happening every day. Unfortunately, the average consumer (you and I) are the innocent victims of this crazy and costly war. As a consumer in today's digital and data-centric age, I worry when I see these headlines of ongoing data breaches from the Targets of the world to my local bank down the street. I wonder not "if" but "when" I will become the next victim. According to the Ponemon institute, the average cost to a company was $3.5 million in US dollars and 15 percent more than what it cost last year.
As a 20 year software industry veteran, I've worked with many firms across global financial services industry. As a result, my concerned about data security exceed those of the average consumer. Here are the reasons for this:
- Everything is Digital: I remember the days when ATM machines were introduced, eliminating the need to wait in long teller lines. Nowadays, most of what we do with our financial institutions is digital and online whether on our mobile devices to desktop browsers. As such every interaction and transaction is creating sensitive data that gets disbursed across tens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of databases and systems in these firms.
- The Big Data Phenomenon: I'm not talking about sexy next generation analytic applications that promise to provide the best answer to run your business. What I am talking about is the volume of data that is being generated and collected from the countless number of computer systems (on-premise and in the cloud) that run today's global financial services industry.
- Increase use of Off-Shore and On-Shore Development: Outsourcing technology projects to offshore development firms has be leverage off shore development partners to offset their operational and technology costs. With new technology initiatives.
Now here is the hard part. Given these trends and heightened threats, do the companies I do business with know where the data resides that they need to protect? How do they actually protect sensitive data when using it to support new IT projects both in-house or by off-shore development partners? You'd be amazed what the truth is.
According to the recent Ponemon Institute study "State of Data Centric Security" that surveyed 1,587 Global IT and IT security practitioners in 16 countries:
- Only 16 percent of the respondents believe they know where all sensitive structured data is located and a very small percentage (7 percent) know where unstructured data resides.
- Fifty-seven percent of respondents say not knowing where the organization's sensitive or confidential data is located keeps them up at night.
- Only 19 percent say their organizations use centralized access control management and entitlements and 14 percent use file system and access audits.
Even worse, those surveyed said that not knowing where sensitive and confidential information resides is a serious threat and the percentage of respondents who believe it is a high priority in their organizations. Seventy-nine percent of respondents agree it is a significant security risk facing their organizations. But a much smaller percentage (51 percent) believes that securing and/or protecting data is a high priority in their organizations.
I don't know about you but this is alarming and worrisome to me. I think I am ready to reach out to my banker and my local retailer and let him know about my concerns and make sure they ask and communicate my concerns to the top of their organization. In today's globally and socially connected world, news travels fast and given how hard it is to build trustful customer relationships, one would think every business from the local mall to Wall St should be asking if they are doing what they need to identify and protect their number one digital asset – Their data.
The Swiss Army Knife of Data Integration
This creative thinking to solve a problem came from a request to build a soldier knife from the Swiss Army. In the end, the solution was all about getting the right tool for the right job in the right place. In many cases soldiers didn't need industrial strength tools, all they really needed was a compact and lightweight tool to get the job at hand done quickly.
Putting this into perspective with today's world of Data Integration, using enterprise-class data integration tools for the smaller data integration project is over kill and typically out of reach for the smaller organization. However, these smaller data integration projects are just as important as those larger enterprise projects, and they are often the innovation behind a new way of business thinking. The traditional hand-coding approach to addressing the smaller data integration project is not-scalable, not-repeatable and prone to human error, what's needed is a compact, flexible and powerful off-the-shelf tool.
Thankfully, over a century after the world embraced the Swiss Army Knife, someone at Informatica was paying attention to revolutionary ideas. If you've not yet heard the news about the Informatica platform, a version called PowerCenter Express has been released and it is free of charge so you can use it to handle an assortment of what I'd characterize as high complexity / low volume data integration challenges and experience a subset of the Informatica platform for yourself. I'd emphasize that PowerCenter Express doesn't replace the need for Informatica's enterprise grade products, but it is ideal for rapid prototyping, profiling data, and developing quick proof of concepts.
PowerCenter Express provides a glimpse of the evolving Informatica platform by integrating four Informatica products into a single, compact tool. There are no database dependencies and the product installs in just under 10 minutes. Much to my own surprise, I use PowerCenter express quite often going about the various aspects of my job with Informatica. I have it installed on my laptop so it travels with me wherever I go. It starts up quickly so it's ideal for getting a little work done on an airplane.
For example, recently I wanted to explore building some rules for an upcoming proof of concept on a plane ride home so I could claw back some personal time for my weekend. I used PowerCenter Express to profile some data and create a mapping. And this mapping wasn't something I needed to throw away and recreate in an enterprise version after my flight landed. Vibe, Informatica's build once / run anywhere metadata driven architecture allows me to export a mapping I create in PowerCenter Express to one of the enterprise versions of Informatica's products such as PowerCenter, DataQuality or Informatica Cloud.
As I alluded to earlier in this article, being a free offering I honestly didn't expect too much from PowerCenter Express when I first started exploring it. However, due to my own positive experiences, I now like to think of PowerCenter Express as the Swiss Army Knife of Data Integration.
To start claiming back some of your personal time, get started with the free version of PowerCenter Express, found on the Informatica Marketplace at: https://community.informatica.com/solutions/pcexpress
6 Steps to Petabyte-Scale Cloud Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift and Informatica Cloud
Getting started with Cloud Data Warehousing using Amazon Redshift is now easier than ever, thanks to the Informatica Cloud's 60-day trial for Amazon Redshift. Now, anyone can easily and quickly move data from any on-premise, cloud, Big Data, or relational data sources into Amazon Redshift without writing a single line of code and without being a data integration expert. You can use Informatica Cloud's six-step wizard to quickly replicate your data or use the productivity-enhancing cloud integration designer to tackle more advanced use cases, such as combining multiple data sources into one Amazon Redshift table. Existing Informatica PowerCenter users can use Informatica Cloud and Amazon Redshift to extend an existing data warehouse with through an affordable and scalable approach. If you are currently exploring self-service business intelligence solutions such as Birst, Tableau, or Microstrategy, the combination of Redshift and Informatica Cloud makes it incredibly easy to prepare the data for analytics by any BI solution.
To get started, execute the following steps:
- Go to http://informaticacloud.com/cloud-trial-for-redshift and click on the 'Sign Up Now' link
- You'll be taken to the Informatica Marketplace listing for the Amazon Redshift trial. Sign up for a Marketplace account if you don't already have one, and then click on the 'Start Free Trial Now' button
- You'll then be prompted to login with your Informatica Cloud account. If you do not have an Informatica Cloud username and password, register one by clicking the appropriate link and fill in the required details
- Once you finish registration and obtain your login details, download the Vibe ™ Secure Agent to your Amazon EC2 virtual machine (or to a local Windows or Linux instance), and ensure that it can access your Amazon S3 bucket and Amazon Redshift cluster.
- Ensure that your S3 bucket, and Redshift cluster are both in the same availability zone
- To start using the Informatica Cloud connector for Amazon Redshift, create a connection to your Amazon Redshift nodes by providing your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key, specifying your cluster details, and obtaining your JDBC URL string.
You are now ready to begin moving data to and from Amazon Redshift by creating your first Data Synchronization task (available under Applications). Pick a source, pick your Redshift target, map the fields, and you're done!
The value of using Informatica Cloud to load data into Amazon Redshift is the ability of the application to move massive amounts of data in parallel. The Informatica engine optimizes by moving processing close to where the data is using push-down technology. Unlike other data integration solutions for Redshift that perform batch processing using an XML engine which is inherently slow when processing large data volumes and don't have multitenant architectures that scale well, Informatica Cloud processes over 2 billion transactions every day.
Amazon Redshift has brought agility, scalability, and affordability to petabyte-scale data warehousing, and Informatica Cloud has made it easy to transfer all your structured and unstructured data into Redshift so you can focus on getting data insights today, not weeks from now.
Business Beware! Corporate IT Is "Fixing" YOUR Data
It is troublesome to me to repeatedly get into conversations with IT managers who want to fix data "for the sake of fixing it". While this is presumably increasingly rare, due to my department's role, we probably see a higher occurrence than the normal software vendor employee. Given that, please excuse the inflammatory title of this post.
Nevertheless, once the deal is done, we find increasingly fewer of these instances, yet still enough, as the average implementation consultant or developer cares about this aspect even less. A few months ago a petrochemical firm's G&G IT team lead told me that he does not believe that data quality improvements can or should be measured. He also said, "if we need another application, we buy it. End of story." Good for software vendors, I thought, but in most organizations $1M here or there do not lay around leisurely plus decision makers want to see the – dare I say it – ROI.
However, IT and business leaders should take note that a misalignment due to lack OR disregard of communication is a critical success factor. If the business does not get what it needs and wants AND it differs what Corporate IT is envisioning and working on – and this is what I am talking about here – it makes any IT investment a risky proposition.
Let me illustrate this with 4 recent examples I ran into:
1. Potential for flawed prioritization
A retail customer's IT department apparently knew that fixing and enriching a customer loyalty record across the enterprise is a good and financially rewarding idea. They only wanted to understand what the less-risky functional implementation choices where. They indicated that if they wanted to learn what the factual financial impact of "fixing" certain records or attributes, they would just have to look into their enterprise data warehouse. This is where the logic falls apart as the warehouse would be just as unreliable as the "compromised" applications (POS, mktg, ERP) feeding it.
Even if they massaged the data before it hit the next EDW load, there is nothing inherently real-time about this as all OLTP are running processes of incorrect (no bidirectional linkage) and stale data (since the last load).
I would question if the business is now completely aligned with what IT is continuously correcting. After all, IT may go for the "easy or obvious" fixes via a weekly or monthly recurring data scrub exercise without truly knowing, which the "biggest bang for the buck" is or what the other affected business use cases are, they may not even be aware of yet. Imagine the productivity impact of all the roundtripping and delay in reporting this creates. This example also reminds me of a telco client, I encountered during my tenure at another tech firm, which fed their customer master from their EDW and now just found out that this pattern is doomed to fail due to data staleness and performance.
2. Fix IT issues and business benefits will trickle down
Client number two is a large North American construction Company. An architect built a business case for fixing a variety of data buckets in the organization (CRM, Brand Management, Partner Onboarding, Mobility Services, Quotation & Requisitions, BI & EPM).
Grand vision documents existed and linked to the case, which stated how data would get better (like a sick patient) but there was no mention of hard facts of how each of the use cases would deliver on this. After I gave him some major counseling what to look out and how to flesh it out – radio silence. Someone got scared of the math, I guess.
3. Now that we bought it, where do we start
The third culprit was a large petrochemical firm, which apparently sat on some excess funds and thought (rightfully so) it was a good idea to fix their well attributes. More power to them. However, the IT team is now in a dreadful position having to justify to their boss and ultimately the E&P division head why they prioritized this effort so highly and spent the money. Well, they had their heart in the right place but are a tad late. Still, I consider this better late than never.
4. A senior moment
The last example comes from a South American communications provider. They seemingly did everything right given the results they achieved to date. This gets to show that misalignment of IT and business does not necessarily wreak havoc – at least initially.
However, they are now in phase 3 of their roll out and reality caught up with them. A senior moment or lapse in judgment maybe? Whatever it was; once they fixed their CRM, network and billing application data, they had to start talking to the business and financial analysts as complaints and questions started to trickle in. Once again, better late than never.
So what is the take-away from these stories. Why wait until phase 3, why have to be forced to cram some justification after the purchase? You pick, which one works best for you to fix this age-old issue. But please heed Sohaib's words of wisdom recently broadcast on CNN Money "IT is a mature sector post bubble…..now it needs to deliver the goods". And here is an action item for you – check out the new way for the business user to prepare their own data (30 minutes into the video!). Agreed?
Fire your Data Scientists – They Don't Add Value
Years ago, I was on a project to improve production and product quality through data analysis. During the project, I heard one man say:
"If I had my way, I'd fire the statisticians – all of them – they don't add value".
Surely not? Why would you fire the very people who were employed to make sense of the vast volumes of manufacturing data and guide future production? But he was right. The problem was at that time data management was so poor that data was simply not available for the statisticians to analyze.
So, perhaps this title should be re-written to be:
Fire your Data Scientists – They Aren't Able to Add Value.
Although this statement is a bit extreme, the same situation may still exist. Data scientists frequently share frustrations such as:
- "I'm told our data is 60% accurate, which means I can't trust any of it."
- "We achieved our goal of an answer within a week by working 24 hours a day."
- "Each quarter we manually prepare 300 slides to anticipate all questions the CFO may ask."
- "Fred manually audits 10% of the invoices. When he is on holiday, we just don't do the audit."
This is why I think the original quote is so insightful. Value from data is not automatically delivered by hiring a statistician, analyst or data scientist. Even with the latest data mining technology, one person cannot positively influence a business without the proper data to support them.
Most organizations are unfamiliar with the structure required to deliver value from their data. New storage technologies will be introduced and a variety of analytics tools will be tried and tested. This change is crucial for to success. In order for statisticians to add value to a company, they must have access to high quality data that is easily sourced and integrated. That data must be available through the latest analytics technology. This new ecosystem should provide insights that can play a role in future production. Staff will need to be trained, as this new data will be incorporated into daily decision making.
With a rich 20-year history, Informatica understands data ecosystems. Employees become wasted investments when they do not have access to the trusted data they need in order to deliver their true value.
Who wants to spend their time recreating data sets to find a nugget of value only to discover it can't be implemented?
Build a analytical ecosystem with a balanced focus on all aspects of data management. This will mean that value delivery is limited only by the imagination of your employees. Rather than questioning the value of an analytics team, you will attract some of the best and the brightest. Then, you will finally be able to deliver on the promised value of your data.
Data is the Key to Value-based Healthcare
The transition to value-based care is well underway. From healthcare delivery organizations to clinicians, payers, and patients, everyone feels the impact. Each has a role to play. Moving to a value-driven model demands agility from people, processes, and technology. Organizations that succeed in this transformation will be those in which:
- Collaboration is commonplace
- Clinicians and business leaders wear new hats
- Data is recognized as an enterprise asset
The ability to leverage data will differentiate the leaders from the followers. Successful healthcare organizations will:
1) Establish analytics as a core competency
2) Rely on data to deliver best practice care
3) Engage patients and collaborate across the ecosystem to foster strong, actionable relationships
Trustworthy data is required to power the analytics that reveal the right answers, to define best practice guidelines and to identify and understand relationships across the ecosystem. In order to advance, data integration must also be agile. The right answers do not live in a single application. Instead, the right answers are revealed by integrating data from across the entire ecosystem. For example, in order to deliver personalized medicine, you must analyze an integrated view of data from numerous sources. These sources could include multiple EMRs, genomic data, data marts, reference data and billing data.
A recent PWC survey showed that 62% of executives believe data integration will become a competitive advantage. However, a July 2013 Information Week survey reported that 40% of healthcare executives gave their organization only a grade D or F on preparedness to manage the data deluge.
What grade would you give your organization?
You can improve your organization's grade, but it will require collaboration between business and IT. If you are in IT, you'll need to collaborate with business users who understand the data. You must empower them with self-service tools for improving data quality and connecting data. If you are a business leader, you need to understand and take an active role with the data.
To take the next step, download our new eBook, "Potential Unlocked: Transforming healthcare by putting information to work." In it, you'll learn:
- How to put your information to work
- New ways to govern your data
- What other healthcare organizations are doing
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So go ahead, download it now and let me know what you think. I look forward to hearing your questions and comments….oh, and your grade!
Death of the Data Scientist: Silver Screen Fiction?
Maybe the word "death" is a bit strong, so let's say "demise" instead. Recently I read an article in the Harvard Business Review around how Big Data and Data Scientists will rule the world of the 21st century corporation and how they have to operate for maximum value. The thing I found rather disturbing was that it takes a PhD – probably a few of them – in a variety of math areas to give executives the necessary insight to make better decisions ranging from what product to develop next to who to sell it to and where.
Don't get me wrong – this is mixed news for any enterprise software firm helping businesses locate, acquire, contextually link, understand and distribute high-quality data. The existence of such a high-value role validates product development but it also limits adoption. It is also great news that data has finally gathered the attention it deserves. But I am starting to ask myself why it always takes individuals with a "one-in-a-million" skill set to add value. What happened to the democratization of software? Why is the design starting point for enterprise software not always similar to B2C applications, like an iPhone app, i.e. simpler is better? Why is it always such a gradual "Cold War" evolution instead of a near-instant French Revolution?
Why do development environments for Big Data not accommodate limited or existing skills but always accommodate the most complex scenarios? Well, the answer could be that the first customers will be very large, very complex organizations with super complex problems, which they were unable to solve so far. If analytical apps have become a self-service proposition for business users, data integration should be as well. So why does access to a lot of fast moving and diverse data require scarce PIG or Cassandra developers to get the data into an analyzable shape and a PhD to query and interpret patterns?
I realize new technologies start with a foundation and as they spread supply will attempt to catch up to create an equilibrium. However, this is about a problem, which has existed for decades in many industries, such as the oil & gas, telecommunication, public and retail sector. Whenever I talk to architects and business leaders in these industries, they chuckle at "Big Data" and tell me "yes, we got that – and by the way, we have been dealing with this reality for a long time". By now I would have expected that the skill (cost) side of turning data into a meaningful insight would have been driven down more significantly.
Informatica has made a tremendous push in this regard with its "Map Once, Deploy Anywhere" paradigm. I cannot wait to see what's next – and I just saw something recently that got me very excited. Why you ask? Because at some point I would like to have at least a business-super user pummel terabytes of transaction and interaction data into an environment (Hadoop cluster, in memory DB…) and massage it so that his self-created dashboard gets him/her where (s)he needs to go. This should include concepts like; "where is the data I need for this insight?', "what is missing and how do I get to that piece in the best way?", "how do I want it to look to share it?" All that is required should be a semi-experienced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint to get your hands on advanced Big Data analytics. Don't you think? Do you believe that this role will disappear as quickly as it has surfaced?
Where Is My Broadband Insurance Bundle?
As I continue to counsel insurers about master data, they all agree immediately that it is something they need to get their hands around fast. If you ask participants in a workshop at any carrier; no matter if life, p&c, health or excess, they all raise their hands when I ask, "Do you have broadband bundle at home for internet, voice and TV as well as wireless voice and data?", followed by "Would you want your company to be the insurance version of this?"
Now let me be clear; while communication service providers offer very sophisticated bundles, they are also still grappling with a comprehensive view of a client across all services (data, voice, text, residential, business, international, TV, mobile, etc.) each of their touch points (website, call center, local store). They are also miles away of including any sort of meaningful network data (jitter, dropped calls, failed call setups, etc.)
Similarly, my insurance investigations typically touch most of the frontline consumer (business and personal) contact points including agencies, marketing (incl. CEM & VOC) and the service center. On all these we typically see a significant lack of productivity given that policy, billing, payments and claims systems are service line specific, while supporting functions from developing leads and underwriting to claims adjucation often handle more than one type of claim.
This lack of performance is worsened even more by the fact that campaigns have sub-optimal campaign response and conversion rates. As touchpoint-enabling CRM applications also suffer from a lack of complete or consistent contact preference information, interactions may violate local privacy regulations. In addition, service centers may capture leads only to log them into a black box AS400 policy system to disappear.
Here again we often hear that the fix could just happen by scrubbing data before it goes into the data warehouse. However, the data typically does not sync back to the source systems so any interaction with a client via chat, phone or face-to-face will not have real time, accurate information to execute a flawless transaction.
On the insurance IT side we also see enormous overhead; from scrubbing every database from source via staging to the analytical reporting environment every month or quarter to one-off clean up projects for the next acquired book-of-business. For a mid-sized, regional carrier (ca. $6B net premiums written) we find an average of $13.1 million in annual benefits from a central customer hub. This figure results in a ROI of between 600-900% depending on requirement complexity, distribution model, IT infrastructure and service lines. This number includes some baseline revenue improvements, productivity gains and cost avoidance as well as reduction.
On the health insurance side, my clients have complained about regional data sources contributing incomplete (often driven by local process & law) and incorrect data (name, address, etc.) to untrusted reports from membership, claims and sales data warehouses. This makes budgeting of such items like medical advice lines staffed by nurses, sales compensation planning and even identifying high-risk members (now driven by the Affordable Care Act) a true mission impossible, which makes the life of the pricing teams challenging.
Over in the life insurers category, whole and universal life plans now encounter a situation where high value clients first faced lower than expected yields due to the low interest rate environment on top of front-loaded fees as well as the front loading of the cost of the term component. Now, as bonds are forecast to decrease in value in the near future, publicly traded carriers will likely be forced to sell bonds before maturity to make good on term life commitments and whole life minimum yield commitments to keep policies in force.
This means that insurers need a full profile of clients as they experience life changes like a move, loss of job, a promotion or birth. Such changes require the proper mitigation strategy, which can be employed to protect a baseline of coverage in order to maintain or improve the premium. This can range from splitting term from whole life to using managed investment portfolio yields to temporarily pad premium shortfalls.
Overall, without a true, timely and complete picture of a client and his/her personal and professional relationships over time and what strategies were presented, considered appealing and ultimately put in force, how will margins improve? Surely, social media data can help here but it should be a second step after mastering what is available in-house already. What are some of your experiences how carriers have tried to collect and use core customer data?
Recommendations and illustrations contained in this post are estimates only and are based entirely upon information provided by the prospective customer and on our observations. While we believe our recommendations and estimates to be sound, the degree of success achieved by the prospective customer is dependent upon a variety of factors, many of which are not under Informatica's control and nothing in this post shall be relied upon as representative of the degree of success that may, in fact, be realized and no warrantee or representation of success, either express or implied, is made.
History Repeats Itself Through Business Intelligence (Part 1)
Unlike some of my friends, History was a subject in high school and college that I truly enjoyed. I particularly appreciated biographies of favorite historical figures because it painted a human face and gave meaning and color to the past. I also vowed at that time to navigate my life and future under the principle attributed to Harvard professor Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás that goes, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
So that's a little ditty regarding my history regarding history.
Forwarding now to the present in which I have carved out my career in technology, and in particular, enterprise software, I'm afforded a great platform where I talk to lots of IT and business leaders. When I do, I usually ask them, "How are you implementing advanced projects that help the business become more agile or effective or opportunistically proactive?" They usually answer something along the lines of "this is the age and renaissance of data science and analytics" and then end up talking exclusively about their meat and potatoes business intelligence software projects and how 300 reports now run their business.
Then when I probe and hear their answer more in depth, I am once again reminded of THE history quote and think to myself there's an amusing irony at play here. When I think about the Business Intelligence systems of today, most are designed to "remember" and report on the historical past through large data warehouses of a gazillion transactions, along with basic, but numerous shipping and billing histories and maybe assorted support records.
But when it comes right down to it, business intelligence "history" is still just that. Nothing is really learned and applied right when and where it counted – AND when it would have made all the difference had the company been able to react in time.
So, in essence, by using standalone BI systems as they are designed today, companies are indeed condemned to repeat what they have already learned because they are too late – so the same mistakes will be repeated again and again.
This means the challenge for BI is to reduce latency, measure the pertinent data / sensors / events, and get scalable – extremely scalable and flexible enough to handle the volume and variety of the forthcoming data onslaught.
There's a part 2 to this story so keep an eye out for my next blog post History Repeats Itself (Part 2)


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BenQ's MW665+ and MX666+ projectors use NFC to reduce wireless presentation setup headaches
The projectors' headline feature is the 'tapNshow' wireless presentation solution, which combines NFC technology with BenQ's own presentation apps to make wireless business presentation from Android mobile devices a fuss-free affair.
Thursday, 23 Apr 2015
NEC's new UM series ultra-short-throw LCD projectors offer improved interactive capabilities
Designed for schools and workplace use, the new UM series projectors offer significant improvements in terms of performance and cost of ownership compared to earlier models.
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Canon launches the XEED WUX500, an LCOS projector with Wi-Fi and HDBaseT support
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Weekly Roundup: Galaxy S6, free Whatsapp voice calls, Xiaomi, Surface 3 and more
We're starting a new Weekly Roundup feature for tech news busy folks might have missed during the week. This week, the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge hit Singapore, Xiaomi's low prices are going to go lower (for one day only), the Microsoft Surface 3 gets our hands-on, plus more.
Wednesday, 1 Apr 2015
Canon's new ultra-short throw projectors let you write on the screen
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Lenovo unveils the new VIBE Shot and A7000 smartphones and a portable Pocket Projector at MWC 2015
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ASUS showcases new portable LED projectors at CES 2015
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LG Electronics sets its sights on becoming a major projector player
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Sony shows off their new $63,000 4K laser projector at International Sound & Sight Exhibition 2014
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No special meaning attached to that number, just the number of minutes I wasted watching Knowing, knowing that Nicholas Cage will usually take any job that comes along in rarely a quality film (Adaptation [2002] was the last good one, I believe). John Koestler (Cage), an astrophysicist from MIT, discovers meaning in a random list of numbers pulled from a fifty year old time capsule.
It doesn't take him long to figure out the numbers predict disasters since 1959; what he never figures out is what a disaster the film is, a compendium of sci-fi clich?s from creepy mute Aryans to a clueless MIT professor, who continues to put him and his motherless son in harm's way through stupidity hardly becoming an intellectual.
That Koestler lost his wife last year seems a staple now of the genre; that he meets an attractive single mom crucial to solving the mystery is another common element. That no meaningful thematic or character development issues color the bland here is painfully obvious after that grueling 122 minutes.
The last line of the film is, "This is not the end." I certainly hope it is; a sequel would leave the free ticket-holder preview audience as burned as the blazing sun in summer at the equator.
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The Sally Kate Winters Home is continuing to offer programs to help the community with its after school leadership program. The program is offered 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday during the school year at the Home on North Division Street.
Counseling Coordinator Georgia Sasso said the program offers youth 12-17 a place to go once the school day is over. The purpose of the program is to teach leadership skills and help keep the community youth ŌĆ£out of trouble.ŌĆØ
The Northside Christian Church will be hosting an event titled ŌĆ£Exalting the Savior: An Evening of PraiseŌĆØ at 6 p.m. on Sept. 14. at the Mary Holmes Auditorium
Rev. Orlando Richmond Sr. said that the evening will be a ŌĆ£mass gospel fellowship,ŌĆØ which can bring the community together.
Local author and history buff, John McBryde, is bringing his book ŌĆ£The Battle of West PointŌĆØ to Luncheon with Books, at noon, Thursday, Sept. 19.
The Horseshoe Robertson Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution have a busy day on tap. DAR members are out this morning putting American flags on Commerce Street to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on American soil in New York City and Washington D.C. by extremists under the guidance of Osama Bin Laden.
Horseshoe Robertson DAR members, Brenda Edwards, Jane Caston, Jenny Caston and Regent Gaynell Duke are doing their patriotic duty by putting out the flags in honor of the 12th anniversary of 9/11.
The West Point Police Department will be holding a ŌĆ£drug drop-offŌĆØ day, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement AgencyŌĆÖs National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the police station.
Detective Sergeant Zate McGee said this would be the fifth time the police department has participated in the event, which McGee encourages city and county residents to participate in.
According to the Mississippi Tobacco-free Coalitions, there are 86 cities in the state that have passed 100 percent smoke-free ordinances. These cities include Starkville, Columbus, Tupelo, Aberdeen and Amory.
West Point, however, is not on this list. While no official ordinance is in place, the city remains tobacco-free, according to West Point Chief Administrative Officer Randy Jones.
West Point Police Department officers have arrested a man in connection with an alleged shooting.
Dermarius Brown, 26, of West Point was arrested Sunday after reportedly turning himself in to authorities. Shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday police were dispatched to the 500 block of Washington Street in reference to a shooting. E911 reported to officers that an ambulance had been dispatched.Upon arrival, police discovered a man at a residence who appeared to be suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg.
Bids for a new water tank have been taken off the Board of Selectmen's agenda for their meeting tonight. West Point Chief Administrative Officer Randy Jones said that the bids were taken off the agenda because the plans have not been finalized.
ŌĆ£There hasn't been a decision made yet,ŌĆØ Jones said. ŌĆ£The plans have not bee certified.ŌĆØ
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MANILA, Philippines—Tropical storm "Nina" has weakened further but continues to move slowly outside of the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) Wednesday.
According to the latest report of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) Wednesday noon, Nina was located at 620 kilometers Northeast of Itbayat, Batanes.
Its maximum sustained winds were weaker at 85 kilometers per hour with gustiness of up to 100 kilometers per hour.
It continued to move at a slow pace of seven kilometers per hour in a North Northeast direction and as expected to be 760 kilometers northeast of Itbayat, Batanes by Thursday morning.
Pagasa estimates the rainfall amount to be 5-15 millimeters per hour around the 600 kilometer diameter of Nina.
Pagasa also reiterated its advisory for fishing boats and other small seacrafts to refrain from venturing out to the seaboards of northern and eastern Luzon due to the big waves generated by the storm.
No other weather disturbances have been monitored by Pagasa as of Wednesday.
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Leeds defender Ben Parker is in contention for his first appearance in over eight months in the New Year's Day clash.
Left-back George McCartney has returned to Sunderland following the expiry of his loan spell and Parker, sidelined due to a series of injuries that restricted him to only four appearances last season, could make a long-awaited return to the side.
Summer signing Fede Bessone and Andrew Hughes provide Simon Grayson with further options.
Midfielder Neil Kilkenny is available to make his final appearance before joining up with the Australia squad ahead of the Asian Cup in Qatar.
Grayson opted for Ross McCormack in place of Kilkenny against Portsmouth, while the manager must decide whether to recall striker Luciano Becchio in place of Billy Paynter, who made his first start for the club in Tuesday's home draw.
Middlesbrough boss Tony Mowbray will give Barry Robson until the last minute to prove he is fit to feature.
The Scotland midfielder missed the 3-1 victory at Preston on Tuesday through illness and is rated at 50-50 to return at Elland Road.
Mowbray otherwise has no fresh injury concerns as his side attempts to build upon a win which lifted them a point clear of the drop zone.
Jonathan Franks (herniated disc) is closing in on a return after getting a brief appearance for the reserves under his belt but Stephen McManus (ankle ligaments), Willo Flood (knee), Rhys Williams (pelvis) and Matt Kilgallon (back) remain on the sidelines.


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Under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, the Small Business Administration (SBA) conducts a program for developing small businesses that are owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Participants can receive contracts under acquisitions that federal agencies offer to the 8(a) program as well as business development assistance from SBA. A firm that receives a supply contract under the 8(a) program or a small business set aside can be either a manufacturer or a nonmanufacturer of a product. Under SBA's rules, however, a nonmanufacturer who receives one of these contracts must agree to supply the product of a domestic small manufacturer or processor. SBA can waive this requirement when there are no small manufacturers or processors available to supply the product. There are two types of waivers to the nonmanufacturer rule: (1) individual waivers, which apply only to a specific contract and are effective for the life of that contract, and (2) class waivers, which apply to categories of items and continue in effect unless revoked by SBA. Once a waiver of the nonmanufacturer rule is approved, a firm may supply the product of a large manufacturer. GAO reviewed (1) the number of individual waivers SBA approved in fiscal year 2001 and the dollar amount of fiscal year 2001 contract obligations that resulted from those waivers, and (2) the number of class waivers available for use during fiscal year 2001 and the dollar amount of fiscal year 2001 obligations that resulted from those waivers. SBA approved 23 individual waivers of the nonmanufacturer rule in fiscal year 2001. Sixteen of the waivers were used on ten 8(a) contracts with a total of $6.3 million in fiscal year 2001 obligations. The remaining seven waivers either did not result in 8(a) contracts during fiscal year 2001 or did not involve fiscal year 2001 funds. SBA approved one class waiver in fiscal year 2001, and there were 84 other class waivers still in effect from prior years. Five of these 85 class waivers resulted in contracts with $20.5 million in fiscal year 2001 obligations. The other 80 approved class waivers were not used on 8(a) contracts during fiscal year 2001. In total, GAO identified $27 million in fiscal year 2001 obligations for contracts covered by individual or class waivers.
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Nutrition Assistance:Actions Needed to Address Potential Online Sales of Infant FormulaGAO-15-605T: Published: May 19, 2015. Publicly Released: May 19, 2015.
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Small Business Research Programs:Challenges Remain in Meeting Spending and Reporting RequirementsGAO-15-358: Published: Apr 15, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 15, 2015.
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Small Business Contracting:Opportunities Exist to Further Improve HUBZone OversightGAO-15-234: Published: Feb 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 12, 2015.
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Small Business Credit Programs:Treasury Continues to Enhance Performance Measurement and Evaluation but Could Better Communicate and Update ResultsGAO-15-105: Published: Dec 11, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 11, 2014.
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Small Business Innovation Research:Change in Program Eligibility Has Had Little ImpactGAO-15-68: Published: Nov 20, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 20, 2014.
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Consumer Product Safety Oversight:Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Coordination and Increase Efficiencies and EffectivenessGAO-15-52: Published: Nov 19, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 19, 2014.
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Women-Owned Small Business Program:Certifier Oversight and Additional Eligibility Controls Are NeededGAO-15-54: Published: Oct 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 7, 2014.
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Consumer Product Safety Commission:Challenges and Options for Responding to New and Emerging RisksGAO-15-17: Published: Oct 14, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 14, 2014.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:Some Privacy and Security Procedures for Data Collections Should Continue Being EnhancedGAO-14-758: Published: Sep 22, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 22, 2014.
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Adults escape into Harry's world
Not only has "Harry Potter" inspired me to love reading, but it has also given me an invaluable tool to inspire my students. I read "The Sorcerer's Stone" after my first year of teaching, and it has been a vital part of my curriculum ever since. Every year I have parents thank me for opening their child's eyes to the joys of reading, and I have J.K. Rowling to thank for that. Harry Potter has meant a meaningful teacher career to me! - Cameron Williams
Hmmm. Which side of me should write a tribute to "Harry Potter"? Will it be the reading fan of fantasy who has enjoyed so many journeys into the intriguing, magical world created by J.K. Rowling? Or does the middle school English teacher get to express her thanks for the immense and important contribution to the world of literature for young people? Both sides of me can speak, as Harry is a win-win for me and every other reader and moviegoer. The series is full of great fun, friendship, excitement, and beautiful writing; it is simply, well, magical! - Linda Yale
In 1997, unemployed, disabled, chronically ill, I fought depression. Then along came the magical world of "Harry Potter."
Reading the books aloud to my family as they arrived became a family tradition. It saw us through moves, deaths, cancer treatments, parental care, and bad economic times. My video-addicted adult son still rereads the books endlessly; my husband began reading again; and the movies later became a family affair.
"Harry Potter" refueled us, buoyed us up,and refocused the pain of our own mortality and uncertainty into a world of magic, possibilities and eternal questions. Thank you, J.K. Rowling. - Tamara Smith, 55, Bonita
The magical realm of "Harry Potter" has opened up a world of imagination, whimsy, excitement, depth of character, richness of creatures, surprises at every turn and a sense of wonder of how a story can link generations. Reading "Harry Potter" has allowed parents, children and grandparents to have a bridge across generations. The excitement of waiting for each book, movie, and the creation of Harry Potter World allows the next generation to see how the mind of J.K. Rowling can vividly bring imagination to life. It is as thrilling as living in the times of Charles Dickens. - Dale A. Baker, La Jolla
I am a 56-year-old muggle who wishes she was a mudblood. J.K. Rowling has created the most magical series I have ever read, and reread. My grandchildren have grown up watching me read "Harry Potter," listened to me as I explain the characters and action in the movies and have in turn, become fans. The wonderous, woven magic that is HP is ageless and I am never without a bit of it in some way every week, even down to my ringtone! Thank you J.K., it's been splendid! - Denise Maestas
I read the first book on a whim and was thoroughly hooked. J.K. writes very well and has created a wonderful world that we can escape to. While there are dangers in that world, friends help friends to solve their problems. Dobby will be missed. So glad it's such a phenomenon, getting so many people to actually read books again. I've read all the books, seen all the movies and have the DVDs. Yeah, I'm a fan. I seldom re-read but this is an exception, along with the Tolkien books. The entire series has now become a classic and I think it will last through the ages. She deserves all her success. - Louise Anderson, 71, San Marcos


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AHL Game Night 3/7: Phantoms at AdmiralsSubmitted by pete on March 7, 2008 - 23:14
Home sweet home.
Marc Denis stopped 42 of 44 shots faced for the win, and is playing really well of late.
First Period
NOR Segal, (6) (Kearns, Smolenak), 6:17
NOR Henrich, (11) (Wanvig, Keller), 13:11 (PP)
Second Period
NOR Jones, (13) , 4:37
PHI Matsumoto, (17) (Laliberte, Gauthier), 8:23 (PP)
Third Period
NOR Smolenak, (10) (Jones, Scalzo), 3:18 (PP)
PHI Laliberte, (3) (Matsumoto, Powe), 14:34
Denis, Blair Jones, and Radek Smolenak were the game's three stars.
Tonight was the Ads' first game back at The Scope after the annual marathon known as the circus road trip. The road trip was modestly successful, considering the team lost 2/3 of its top line to a call up and an injury. Still, there's no doubt that the Admirals are a much better team at home and the team put a really good first period together tonight to jump out to a 2-0 lead and Denis helped make it stick. Denis pulled his save percentage for the AHL season up above .900 tonight, which is a welcome sign.
A night like tonight also gives you a lot of hope that the youngsters on this team are starting to get it. Jones and Smolenak each chipped in 1 goal and 1 assist, Adam Henrich potted a goal, and Justin Keller added a helper. With Junior Lessard in Tampa and Paul Szczechura on the shelf injured it would be easy for the Ads to pack it in right now. But, the kids are stepping up a little here and taking more reponsibility on their shoulders. Good.
Don't look now, but Vladimir Mihalik is sitting on a +7 rating, which is somewhat phenomenal for a guy who plays 20 minutes a night on a team that's 11 games under .500 and has been outscored by 38 goals this season. This young man is going to be a beast in two or three years.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
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NHL Game Night 3/6: Lightning at FlyersSubmitted by pete on March 6, 2008 - 21:49
Another tough late loss.
Mike Smith allowed 3 goals on 25 shots for the loss. Who does Karri Ramo have to bribe to get a start?
First Period
Tampa Bay 0:31, Jussi Jokinen 15 (Martin St. Louis, Dan Boyle)
Philadelphia 14:51, Daniel Briere 23 (R.J. Umberger)
Philadelphia 16:40, Jeff Carter 24 (unassisted)
Second Period
Tampa Bay 8:18, Michel Ouellet 11 (Jussi Jokinen, Doug Janik)
Third Period
Philadelphia 18:06, Jeff Carter 25 (Sami Kapanen, Kimmo Timonen)
Jussi Jokinen had 1 goal and 1 assist in the game and Michel Ouellet continued his streak of good production of late with a goal. That's the good news. If the Lightning can get that one more bluechip offensive player (Stamkos please), these complimentary pieces are looking like they might be ready to step up and chip in offensively.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.
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Thursday's Elitserien ScoresSubmitted by pete on March 6, 2008 - 21:24
Johan Harju was scoreless in Lulea's 2-1 win over Mora.
Andreas Holmqvist had a power play assist and 2 penalty minutes in Frolunda's 4-1 loss to Farjestads.
Saturday will be the final round of the Elitserien regular season.
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BCHL Playoffs Game Night 3/5: Victoria AdvancesSubmitted by chad on March 6, 2008 - 10:35
BCHL Coastal Conference, First Round
Game 5: No.5 Victoria Grizzlies 3 @ No.4 Burnaby Express 2 (OT)
Victoria wins Best of 5 Series 3-2
W Justin Courtnall, VIC:
Game: 0-0-0, 0 PIM
Series: 5 GP, 2-0-2, 4 PIM
Victoria's Jonathan Millhouse scored on a wrist shot at 2:44 of overtime to give the Grizzlies a first round series win over the higher seeded Burnaby Express. Victoria will open their conference semi-final matchup against the second-seeded Langley Chiefs on Friday. In the other Coastal Conference first round matchup, sixth ranked Powell River, fresh off a first round upset of Surrey, will play top seeded Nanaimo.
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N.A. Juniors Game Night: 3/5Submitted by chad on March 6, 2008 - 10:23
Seattle Thunderbirds 5 @ Prince George Cougars 2
G Riku Helenius, SEA: Win, stopped 22 of 24 shots
C/W Dana Tyrell, PG: 0-0-0, E, 2 PIM (tripping)
After battling a knee sprain and a tandem goaltender on a hot streak, Helenius made his first start since February 20 and earned a win for Seattle. Seattle sits in fourth in the Western Conference, four points ahead of Everett and five ahead of Kelowna. Tyrell and PG have long been out of the running for a playoff spot. Tyrell has just two assists in his last five games.
Vancouver Giants 4 @ Kelowna Rockets 1
G Torrie Jung, KEL: Did not play
Vancouver outshot Kelowna 35-17 in the game. Jung has not started a game since February 23 and has not won a start since January 30. Kelowna is currently in sixth in the Western Conference with a secured playoff spot. They could move up as high as fourth with a strong finish, but will more likely be the fifth or sixth seed.
The WHL regular season ends March 16.
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Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions.
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What sort of life one should lead is a subject that has preoccupied moral and political thinkers from Aristotle to Mill. Here, Appiah develops an account of ethics, in just this venerable sense--but an account that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances, our individuality with our identities. As he observes, the question who we are has always been linked to the question what we are.
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