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- 7/8" coupler ring accommodates 3/16", 1/4", and 5/16" pastry tubes
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This Ateco (August Thomsen) 402 3-piece medium coupler set allows the cake decorator to change similar sized tubes without emptying the contents of the decorating bag. This convenient set will be an ideal addition to any kitchen! The 7/8" coupler ring accommodates 3/16", 1/4", and 5/16" pastry tubes, as well as Ateco's 231 large bismark tube (August Thomsen). The 1" coupler ring accommodates 3/8", 7/16", and 1/2" pastry tubes.
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Overall User Rating: Ateco 402 3-Piece Medium Coupler Set (August Thomsen) ( 4.8 stars from 36 reviews )
well designed. very functional. easy cleanup. good grip for working the frosting on anything from full size cake to smaller cupcakes. very pleased with the item and would recommend to others. sturdy design and easy to assemble
Terri R. from Chad Fenner Posted on 09/24/2015
Awesome coupler, comes with an extra top just in case you lose the first one! Fits well with most of my tips! We recommend ateco to everyone!
Anh j. from CakeBox Posted on 09/17/2015
I needed a larger coupler and this one does the trick. This product was what I expected. They work like they are supposed too. Great price good product.
Ann S. Posted on 07/24/2015
This will work very well if the tip fits the coupler, but some of my smaller tip won't stay in it... But for the one thst fit it work very well!
Sarah H. Posted on 07/12/2015
Couplers are a must have when frosting lots of things and working with tons of colors. I don't know how I would manage without these couplers!
Mary w. Posted on 07/01/2015
I'm glad I purchased this size and that it comes with two different coupler "lids". One is more open than the other one. The one that has a smaller opening fits well with my cupcake swirl tips. I use the Wilton 1B tip for my cupcake swirls.
Leticia S. Posted on 06/08/2015
I really don't understand the reason for the 3rd piece of this 3 piece set but I use the two pieces just fine and use the 3rd as backup..
Lisa N. Posted on 06/07/2015
This is a huge coupler works great with my large bags when I have to do a large quantity of cupcakes, cookies or cakes . Very cheap too!
Stella L. from stellas custom cakes Posted on 02/06/2015
They hold tightly which is very important. I had bought a set from a local store a few years back and put up with them not staying in place for too long before replacing them with these. Always a happy shopper here.
Jennie M. Posted on 01/15/2015
These are a must have for anyone that is decorating cakes, When you have a big bag of Butter cream and you need to change to different tips this makes that change a breeze!
LJ F. Posted on 01/02/2015
I think I will stick to using my standard and large coupler as I cannot get the medium coupler to fit snuggly in a disposable pastry bag. Maybe it would work better with a regular pastry bag. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Marche S. Posted on 12/01/2014
Thank you for your review! We are sorry the coupler set did not suit. Our experts recommend putting the coupler in the disposable pastry bag tip and measuring before cutting to ensure that the opening is the proper size for the coupler. This should help to fix the issue for you!
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this medium coupler set has 2 different sizes but the one size fits the wilton large tips perfectly eg 2D and 1M. so nice to change tips without emptying all the icing out of the bag to get the tips out of the bottom!
Edith I. Posted on 11/29/2014
I need these, they make changing pastry tips so much easier and keeps the tip straight when filling the bag with icing or filling- really great!
Kristin V. from Confections by Kristin Posted on 10/28/2014
Same Ateco quality at a great low Webstaurant Store price. The Medium Sized Coupler "set" comes with two medium sized top pieces, to fit different sized tips. This is my most used size.
J S. Posted on 10/18/2014
Excellent pricing for a must have item that seems to disappears far too often. Makes changing decorator tips a breeze and we can keep plenty on hand
Deborah B. from miss debs Posted on 10/10/2014
This should be in every cake decorator's arsenal. If you're into decorating, having a coupler makes the job smoother as you don't need to change out the entire bag to switch tips. Simply insert the coupler in the bag, add your buttercream and attach your decorating tip. When you want a new design, switch to a new tip. Simple.
Nikki U. Posted on 10/05/2014
Great coupler set and also inexpensive. I love the ateco products as they are very efficient for my new and growing business. Can't wait to try out some of their other products!
Elizabeth P. Posted on 09/26/2014
The medium coupler set is nice to have on hand for the in between tip sizes that don't quite fit on the standard coupler. Would recommend.
Cassie T. Posted on 08/14/2014
Just what I needed! I was looking for this size locally, but it was difficult. At this price, I had to buy it here. Haven't been disappointed yet.
Shana E. Posted on 08/12/2014
ateco medium couple set allows us to use all kinds of big tips like big star tip or big rose petal tip etc.. without consuming time for changing bags. it gives 2 different caps for different size of couplers... i love to use them while decorating cupcakes..
Dinakar P. Posted on 07/08/2014
Great for having to change tips on a piping bag often. Especially helpful for decorating cakes and other piping needs. Have held up to constant use and haven't had any problems with them what so ever.
Maureen B. from One Dish Cuisine Posted on 04/15/2014
I could not live without these medium couplers!! They work great! I own 4 sets! & If I need more, I know where to find them!
Sarah P. from Heart of Cupcakes Posted on 03/19/2014
Ateco 402 3-Piece Medium Coupler Set (August Thomsen). This set is necessary to quickly change out medium sized pastry tips. The material is durable enough but be careful not to over tighten or you can split the nut.
Barbara A. Posted on 03/11/2014
Ateco 402 3-Piece Medium Coupler Set (August Thomsen) is a very nice set. and fits in alot of size bags. This set is very well priced.
Rachel Y. Posted on 01/11/2014
Once again, great product from Ateco. I use only Ateco for my decorating and have not been let down. They work great, hold the bags and tips in place and are a quality product.
Audrea C. from Me Too! Posted on 12/24/2013
You can never have too many of these. I have dozens, and they come in handy when switching from one decorating tip to another. Very durable and easy to use and clean. A necessity for cake or cookie decorating.
Jacqueline C. Posted on 11/06/2013
These are plastic, fit together nicely, and run through the dishwasher fine - although they clean up very nicely with just a quick wash out at the sink, too. It's so nice to be able to have a secure fitting on the end of my piping bags, and it sure makes it a LOT easier to fill eclairs, and pipe out thicker ingredients, but do be sure you know the right size for the right couplers, before you buy. It can be quite confusing. Now I have all 3 sizes, but they're cheap, and should last forever, so I'm happy. : )
Karen M. Posted on 08/28/2013
Works well if the tip fits the coupler. Some of my medium tips slide right out. Easy to change tips and clean up is easy.
Carol Z. Posted on 08/24/2013
I love the couplers and the price is pretty reasonable. The closest thing to me is a michaels store which wants at least an extra 25 cents more than on here.
Rebecca D. Posted on 07/28/2013
I use these couplers to fill my pumpkin rolls without using a tip. It works great to make sure icing is evenly distributed
This medium coupler is great with the two different collars all the tips fit snugly. They are a great value would buy multiples for this price.
Joyce G. Posted on 07/06/2013
Thanks so much for having great products like these for so cheap I love it. You can;t find deals like this anywhere, These do not leak!!! they are perfect!
Denishia W. Posted on 02/09/2013
This coupler set is great for making it much easier to work cleaner when frosting and decorating cakes and cupcakes!!! Easy to switch tips on same bag!!
Eric K. Posted on 10/12/2012
Have been using these couplers for a couple months now on a daily basis and they are holding up really well. Ateco is a good brand for tips and couplers and we would buy again!
Heather H. from Cupcakes Like It Sweet Posted on 08/18/2012
This coupler set works well. It is worth a try and worth every scent buy a few extra because you know you may lose a few.
Tristan M. from Tristan's Posted on 04/09/2012
Couplers are a gift to cupcake decorating for a me and this store has them at great prices. I would recommend to anyone and will probably stock up!
Amanda B. Posted on 07/07/2011
Coupler is of hard plastic and does not pop off do to the nice threads it was produced with. Other couplers leak and this one does not
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London attractions take guests on an artistic tour through Europe
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If you are an art lover who is hoping to see some of the most famous collections in the world then there are plenty of exciting London attractions which will allow you to do just that.
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The collections are housed in a Grade II listed building, which contains six galleries as well as a bookshop and library.
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In addition, it features the lives, history and images of those who have influenced British history and culture from the Middle Ages until the present day.
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Not to be confused with the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery features inspiring art by legends such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Monet and Picasso among many others.
Over 2,000 Western European paintings are on display at this gallery, with audio tours and guides available in 12 different languages.
On March 14, they have a special exhibition which delves into the lives of children living in the 1700s until the early 19th century.
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An Ashe County High School student beat out more than 24,000 other participants for a top spot in America's largest high school essay contest conducted by the Bill of Rights Institute. Representing the South Atlantic Region, Zachary Thompson, a junior at Ashe County High School,
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Thompson's sponsoring teacher, Marc Gamble, received a matching cash prize.
In addition to the cash prizes, Thompson and Gamble also won paid trips to the nation's capital, where they were honored on March 22 at an awards gala emceed by Juan Williams and featuring a keynote address by John Stossel. The Washington, D.C. trip also included a Capitol Hill luncheon and tours of the U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court, and National Archives.
"The Being an American Essay Contest encourages students to see how vital it is to the future of our country and Constitution that they live out key civic values every day," said Bill of Rights Institute Vice President of Education Programs Jason Ross. "By thinking about the civic values evident in our Founding documents and in the lives of American heroes, students can begin to see how their own actions are significant in supporting the experiment in self-government started by our Founders."
More than 80,000 students attending public and private high schools, and home-schooled students from all 50 states, have participated in the Being an American Essay Contest to date, with nearly half-a-million dollars in prize money being awarded to winning students and their teachers.
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The 2010-2011 contest's sponsors include the Stuart Family Foundation, Lake Forest, Ill; the Jack Miller Family Foundation, Buffalo Grove, Ill.; the History Channel, New York, N.Y.; The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee; Koch Industries, Wichita, Kan.; DonorsTrust, Alexandria, V.A.; and the Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. (A complete list of contest sponsors is available here).
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These spirals of gold-plated bronze terminate in horned griffins' heads. They are not quite a pair, but were probably worn as such. Each griffin head is made of sheet gold, and is attached to the spiral by a collar with scales filled with blue and green enamel, and a gold rosette at the front. The eyes were also once enamelled; another pair preserve a black pupil in a white iris.
One of the griffins has droplets filled with enamel on the ruff of the neck. The caps at the other ends of the spirals are also attached by collars, one of which is corrugated, while the other has a plainer collar with blue and green enamelled leaves above. Both caps have a domed top divided into sections by leaves filled with enamel. The spirals have copper alloy cores covered by gold plate.
As these are a pair and other true pairs with this type of terminal have been found in Cyprus, it seems probable that they were earrings, rather than hair rings. Parallels outside Cyprus are difficult to find and they seem to have been a Cypriot speciality introduced to southern Italy, but not elsewhere.
More information
D. Williams and J. Ogden, Greek gold: jewellery of the c (London, The British Museum Press, 1994)
V. Tatton-Brown, Ancient Cyprus, 2nd ed. (London, The British Museum Press, 1997)
Diameter: 2.900 cm (about)
Weight: 245.000 g
Diameter: 2.900 cm (about)
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GR 1894.11-1.450-1 (Jewellery 1646-7)
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The last boys basketball team to keep either Duncanville or Cedar Hill from winning a district title was …
The Duncanville and Cedar Hill boys basketball teams play tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Duncanville. It's a good rivalry, and many times, the winner has the inside track to a district title.
Not this year, however.
South Grand Prairie leads District 5-5A with a record of 6-0 and has already beaten Duncanville (4-2) by 10 points and Cedar Hill (5-1) by 20. So that leads to this question:
When was the last time either Duncanville (which won its third state title in 2007) or Cedar Hill (a state finalist in 2009) didn't win the district title?
Cedar Hill was the district champ in 2010 and '11, and it shared the title with Duncanville in '09. Duncanville won the district title in 2007 and '08.
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Doug Deuchler's New Book Available Now
review by Ed Vincent
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review by Ed Vincent
Doug Deuchler has been a tremendous asset to Oak Park
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Coming this September 10th at the Historical Society of
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Doug, who has long been one of the Society's biggest supporters,
will deliver some informal remarks about postcards and
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that night will receive $2.00 off the book, representing the 10 percent
discount in our Gift Shop for current members.
While Oak Park in Vintage Postcards also will be sold
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the works in our April newsletter, several of you stepped
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The 128-page book features 200 postcard images, many from
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Formed in 1929 as the Association of Izaak Walton League Chapters of Virginia, and then formerly organized in 1944 with nine chapters, the Virginia Division of the Izaak Walton League of America is one of the oldest and largest divisions within the Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA). The IWLA is one of the nation's oldest and most respected conservation organizations. With a powerful grassroots network of more than 250 local chapters nationwide, the IWLA takes a common-sense approach toward protecting our country's natural heritage and improving outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans. The Virginia Division has 18 chapters and over 7,000 members. Our conservation legacy in Virginia continues today as strongly as it did over 82 years ago. We invite you to learn about our work and to join us in supporting important conservation initiatives in your community.
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The purpose of this award is to congratulate the best, second best and third best functioning chapters in the Virginia Division. Each will receive a commemorative plaque. The Award committee reserves the right to request documentation for any answer. The Chapter President will affirm the accuracy of the answers. The deadline for post mark of the award application was Friday, August 7, 2015. Read more.
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A last minute amendment has been added to the proposed 2015 Virginia budget. This amendment would add $520,000 to the budget to acquire the Dahlgren Heritage Railroad Trail under the Natural Resources, Department of Conservation and Recreation. Should this occur, continued use of the existing NVGC ranges would be impossible. These ranges have been in operation for many years, but that won't matter if this amendment is included in the 2015 budget.
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Virginia's Natural Bridge and surrounding property were recently sold. The owner has sold Virginia's Natural Bridge to a conservation group which wil turn it over to the Virginia State Parks system. The Virginia Division of the Izaak Walton League of America will be recognizing the efforts of those involved with saving this Natural Wonder at their April 2015 Division meeting. To learn more about this Natural Wonder, please continue onto this Fox News article: Fox News.
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As many of you know, our old friend and former Arlington-Fairfax Chapter member, Ken Cuccinelli, just stepped down as Virginia's Attorney General. Ken is continuing his advocacy for 2nd Amendment Rights as a lawyer in the private sector. With 3 other lawyers, he has started a unique law firm called "VSD Law, PLC," a Virginia Self-Defense Law Firm... Read more.
Notice for Chapters
The National IWLA has but one Tax Determination Letter and that is for a 501c3. Back once upon a time all chapters who joined the league were placed under this Umbrella letter. This determination is National IWLA ONLY and the Virginia Division has nothing to do with how they administer it. If your Chapter is under this Umbrella Coverage you must take the 5 steps to keeping your tax exemption yearly. Or they will pull the letter and remove your chapter. Those steps are listed in the information section of this web site along with notes from our Division President on important filings for Chapter 501c3 Status.
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Thank you for your interest in the Virginia Division of the Izaak Walton League of America.
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Chemo- and stereoselective cobalt-mediated [2+2+2]cycloaddition of alkynes with uracil derivatives: a new synthesis route to modified nucleosides.
In: Angewandte Chemie, Jg. 103 (1991) ; Nr. 8, S. 1032-4
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Uracils I [R = (CH2)3C.tplbond.CH, R1 = Bz, H] underwent cycloaddn. with R2C.tplbond.CR2 (R2 = SiMe3, CO2Me) and CpCo(CO)2 (Cp = cyclopentadienyl) to give the adducts II. I (R = protected ribose, deoxyribose, Me; R1 = Me, H) gave adducts III (n = 1-3) on treatment with HC.tplbond.C(CH2)n+2C.tplbond.CH and CpCoL2 (L = CO, C2H4). III (R = R1 = Me, n = 2) was demetalated with CuCl2-Et3N. The crystal structure of III (n = 2, R = 3,5-di-O-methyl-2-deoxyribosyl, R1 = Me) is reported.


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Living in close proximity to the headquarters of Pegasystems in the Boston metropolitan area, I've had numerous contacts and interactions with the vendor in the past, but this summer I attended the vendor's annual conference for only the second time. Attending PegaWorld 2011 was a great experience, where I learned about this upbeat company and their happy customers.
Prior to attending PegaWorld 2010, I had written an exhaustive five-part series on Pegasystems (a.k.a. Pega) entitled "The Wizardry of Business Process Management." As background, here are some other market observer's reports from PegaWorld 2010: Sandy Kemsley's of Column 2 and Neil Ward-Dutton's of MWD Advisors.
As PegaWorld 2011 fell in-between the two grand slam tennis tournaments in Paris and Wimbledon, here is my tennis analogy of how, in my view, Pega stacks up against its fierce business process management (BPM) competitors. Namely, if Oracle BPM and IBM BPM were to resemble Nadal and Federer (in whichever order), Pega strikes me as Djokovic: not the longstanding No. 1 yet (and perhaps he will not remain the top player for long), but with an impressive string of consecutive wins and much color and humor to his character (which defies the typical profile of a boring tennis player). Indeed, Pega's top managers and their approach to developing software are a far cry from being dull.
Interestingly, Pega is nearly a 30-year-old company (founded in 1983 by its current CEO Alan Trefler), but it still feels like a youngish company that is just past the startup phase. This may be because the company has had four major phases in its current lifecycle, with each phase coinciding with a major product rewrite in a new technology. The first three phases lasted for more than two decades, in which the publicly traded company was a "run of the mills" and even flirted with disaster on a couple of occasions. But then in 2005, the company caught its fourth wind and got its current Build for Change (BfC) concept right: rather than continue delivering rigid packaged suites, it began delivering applications that users could change relatively easily.
Pega BPM: The Software for Customer CentricityLet's fast forward from that time when Pega was an obscure BPM vendor with about $100 million (USD) in revenues to 2011 when Pega is the third-fastest growing technology company according to Fortune magazine. Due to five consecutive years of about 30 percent growth, Pega is projected to become a $450 million (USD) company in 2011. During his PegaWorld 2011 keynote presentation entitled "Pega BPM: The software for customer centricity," Trefler pointed out that Pega's very first two customers from 1983 are still its customers today.
Trefler also reminisced about 2004, when Gartner told (or rather scolded) the vendor that having business processes and rules together was a bad idea. In fact, Gartner is still publishing two different magic quadrant market reports: for BPM suites and Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS). While Pega continues to participate in both magic quadrants, in reality rules and processes are two sides of the BPM coin in the Pega BPM suite (a.k.a. SmartBPM and self-explanatorily dubbed PegaRules Process Commander [PRPC]). Pega has also become a customer relationship management (CRM) and case management player (and is also featured by leading analyst houses in related magic quadrants or wave reports).
Later on in his speech, Trefler lamented about users' engagement with information technology (IT) systems still being suboptimal, despite substantial changes in the underlying technology having taken place during his Pega tenure. Pega has thus developed unified object-based architecture, which holds processes, policies/rules, and user interfaces (UIs) within the same DNA (i.e., the same code; the same integrated development environment). This is in a sharp contrast to "integrated" or "fused" software suites, based on multiple acquisitions on disparate technologies, which Trefler referred to as "frankenstacks." Lombardi Software, Savvion, and Metastorm (and most recently Global 360), once very similar to Pega in delivering automated, model-driven, round-trip processes, and thus the most fluid user experience, are now all part of IBM, Progress Software, and Open Text's "frankenstacks," respectively.
In addition, Pega believes that cloud computing is the way to go. In 2008, the vendor introduced a private cloud−based platform as a service (PaaS) to help organizations set up centers of excellence (CoE) and facilitate incremental adoption (pilot projects, sandboxes, etc.) of BPM initiatives across departments, subsidiaries, lines of business (LoB), outsourced business units, and trading partners.
Its unified architecture enables the vendor to deliver a declarative modeling composition environment that improves the ability of the BPM system (BPMS) to change and adapt to new business needs. With the Chordiant Software acquisition in 2010, the product's architecture also enables the self-optimization and self-learning of process models by discovering patterns of how work has been handled (which perhaps should become new rules for the future). Chordiant will not be merely integrated but rather "unified" for enabling better decision-making capabilities during customer interactions (e.g., recommending the next best offer).
The idea is for case management to evolve into case automation. Customer centricity, in Pega CEO's view, means the following abilities:
To this end, customer-oriented architecture (COA) is required, with the following components:
What's New in Pega BPM 6.2?Kerim Akgonul, Pega's vice president (VP) of product management, started his keynote presentation afterwards with the assertion that most of the traditional BPMSs stop short of a process execution capability in process modeling. According to Akgonul, "Models do nothing on their own, other than being pretty pictures, like real supermodels celebrities," but Pega's BPM is all about model-driven automation that entails change management, specialization & reuse, and the aforementioned Six Rs of work automation.
As the process model is visible and executable (with a so-called round-trip behavior and thus the most fluid user experience), it allows processes to be flexible, without sacrificing management control. Microsoft Visio is no longer necessarily required for modeling, given that Pega has delivered its own browser-based modeling tool, which will also work for the Pega Cloud offering. A new browser-based client supports a "business process automation (BPA) for the masses" style of process knowledge capture. Possible solutions can be modeled and immediately executed as prototypes, with auto-generation of Java and hypertext markup language (HTML) scripts, as needed, as well as indication of incomplete steps.
Akgonul also talked about Dynamic UIs (screens) in Pega BPM 6.2, which are similar to KANA Software's concept of an adaptive desktop that changes in a chameleon-like manner based on user input and the necessary next step (see TEC's recent blog post). In addition to model-driven automation, the major Pega BPM 6.2 goal is to double user productivity and reduce implementation and training time by 50 percent. This ambitious goal is expected to be reached in the following ways:
In addition, the Pega BPM release features built-in case management capabilities, such as the following:
Last but not least, application migration has been simplified via migration package formats, an applications packaging wizard, automated database schema changes, data import as a comprehensive wizard, property optimization for reporting, streamlined Pega cloud experience, etc.
Life Is Good at Pega, Yet . . .In light of Pega's protracted stellar results, it is difficult to find issues and challenges with its BPM software. Nonetheless, Pega BPM appears too complex a system for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), although the vendor has been implemented at individual departments of large companies. The product also prices higher relative to other competitor products, reflecting the premium brand value that Pega believes it delivers.
Pega does not yet have a culture of being a platform provider for independent software vendors (ISVs) and value-added resellers (VARs), and largely relies on direct sales and strategic consulting partners, which is again not conducive to SMEs. Pegasystems' DCO concept represents a paradigm shift for most prospects and will require some evangelizing and education for mass acceptance. IT departments might be resentful of the offering for fear of being rendered obsolete. In addition, some Pega competitors feature stronger capabilities and reference customers in the realms of knowledge management (KM)- and project-based BPM deployments. To read about more potential issues with Pega, see the PegaWorld 2011 report by MWD Advisors.
Pega's Executives Have Their SayTo discuss both the opportunities and potential challenges at PegaWorld 2011, I recently had the chance to have one-on-one interviews with Alan Trefler and Kerim Akgonul. Alan Trefler, founder and CEO of Pegasystems, also serves as chairman of the Pegasystems Board of Directors.
Alan was named The American Business Award's "Software CEO of the Year" for 2009. He has frequently presented at international conferences, written articles for major publications, and has been consulted extensively on the use of advanced technologies and work automation. Alan has been profiled in national print and broadcast media including Fox Business News, Fortune Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Bloomberg Television, Barron's, Reuters, and Investor's Business Daily; he has also been named the inventor of five issued United States (US) patents and several US and international patent applications for Pegasystems' distinctive Inherited Rule-Based Architecture, which provides the framework for Pegasystems' rules-based BPM solutions.
Alan's interest in computers originates from his collegiate involvement in tournament chess, where he achieved a Master rating and was co-champion of the 1975 World Open Chess Championship. Alan holds a BA degree with distinction in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
The Discussion with Pega's VisionaryMy questions and Trefler's answers are as follows:
PJ: Has your competitive landscape changed of late and how, and why do you win/lose to your competitors?AT: During my PegaWorld 2011 keynote presentation, I reflected on Metastorm, Lombardi, and Savvion being gobbled up by large technology stack providers over the past 2 years. Our win rate is quite high, particularly when concrete business case scenarios with proven benefits appeal to prospective customers. We might still lose in environments that do not believe in model-driven architecture paradigms but rather believe in Java or Microsoft .NET stacks and enterprise service buses (ESBs).
Our declarative composition environment represents a paradigm shift for most prospects, and will require education for it to be taken advantage to its fullest. Not everyone is ready to have IT staff and business users work hand-in-hand, plus there might be some lingering anxiety (and thus resistance) about how our "no coding" approach might render some IT folks obsolete.
PJ: What is your current geographic coverage and in how many languages are your products?AT: Pegasystems' sales to customers based outside of our domestic US market represent about 40 percent of the total revenue, which begs for some improvement. We have wholly-owned subsidiaries based in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, and Australia. These offices market Pega products and render consulting and training services to customers based in North America, Europe, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Over the past 2 years we have expanded dramatically in the Asia-Pacific region, with presence and major customers in China and Japan. To continue with our coveted growth, we must expand international operations in Latin America. We currently deliver 11 language packs out of the box, but our customers have additionally deployed the product in 10 more languages.
PJ: How are your major system integrator (SI) and other partnerships going (with as much candor as you are willing to provide)?AT: Over the past several years we have expanded our partner ecosystem. PegaWorld 2011 sponsors include SI luminaries such as Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, IBM Global Business Services (GBS), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Tata, Infosys, and Wipro Technologies, to name a few (see full list of sponsors). These partners have made significant investments in their Pega practices.
PJ: What were the major highlights in 2010, and what do you expect in 2011, regarding demand for your solutions across different territories and product lines/modules?AT: In addition to 30 percent growth, 2010 was marked by embedding predictive analytics in our product to improve customer-facing interactions. As far as new industries go, we've made some notable forays in oil & gas and life sciences, and acquired our first customers in Russia and Italy. 2011 and 2012 should be more of the same.
PJ: What issues/challenges are still keeping you awake at night?AT: First of all, I sleep very well at night. Still, ensuring high quality of our product and partner relations is constantly on my mind. We will continue on the concurrent COA and service-oriented architecture (SOA) paths. To recap my PegaWorld 2011 keynote, COA entails the following three concepts:
Most of our competitors are complicating their products (rather than simplifying them) by creating gargantuan stacks around their ESBs. Over the past 10 years, we've seen the novel paradigm of building applications separately from a database layer, and that should be the case with BPM as well, where ESB plays a database role. It is not easy to deliver customer-centric application in such a monolith stack.
PJ: If you oversimplify your product, will you cannibalize your professional services and strain your SI partnerships? If not, why would it still take months to implement Pega BPM?AT: Not really. There is so much pent-up demand to use technology better and in a more customer-centric way. Our estimate is that a 50 percent reduction in implementation cycles will result in a 300 percent increase in demand because there are so many business processes that need to be improved in the corporate world and pricing elasticity is high in the enterprise software space.
Our partners will have the chance to increase the volume of their BPM projects, which should compensate for the lower scope of these projects. In addition, Pega BPM will still have to be implemented in long cycles because of the abundance of processes that need streamlining.
The Nitty-Gritty Discussion with Pega's R&D LeaderKerim Akgonul, VP of product management, is responsible for Pega BPM products, technical documentation, training curriculum development, and the Pega Developer Community (PDN). Kerim has been with Pegasystems for more than 17 years, spending the first 10 years in the engineering department developing solutions for customers. With his extensive knowledge of Pega technology, he moved into product management, where he successfully drove efforts to commercialize Pega BPM.
Kerim holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. My questions and Akgonul's answers are as follows:
PJ: Of all your modules, capabilities, industry frameworks, etc., what has been selling best of late and which of these do you expect to perform well (best) in the future?KA: Financials, health care, insurance, and telecoms have been our traditional industries of focus, as well as facilitating back-office processes (e.g., invoice processing, exception handling, approvals, auditing, HR processes, etc.). Oil & gas, life sciences, travel, retail, etc. should be new growing vertical sectors for us in the future. On the functional side, front-office applications (and processes), such as case management (loan origination, claims management, etc.), quoting and order capturing, and predictive decision-making (next best offer to a customer), are expected to do well. Last but not least, Pega Cloud should do well in the future.
PJ: What are the particular capabilities (that solve what pain points) that your products still do and no one else does?KA: Off the top of my head, the following distinct Pega BPM traits come to mind:
PJ: What would be the sweet spot customers for your product lines?KA: There would still be large global corporations that want to improve their processes, operations, and top and bottom line. Such large disparate organizations can scale and federate their BPM implementations owing to our "situational layer cake" capability. We are focused on large, multinational (Fortune 500) organizations, as we have been working with these types of organizations to address their most challenging business processes and transformation initiatives. We believe that there is still a tremendous opportunity for our solutions within global enterprises. As mentioned earlier, financial services, insurance, health care, and telecommunications and media have traditionally made up the majority of our clients, but we have seen growth and opportunity in the areas of life sciences, travel and hospitality, oil & gas, retail, manufacturing/warranty management, and other industries in recent years.
PJ: Your CEO talks about your "unified" solutions vs. competitors' "integrated" solutions? Can you please explain the difference between the two?KA: We believe that a truly unified offering provides greater consistency and capabilities across organizational silos. That way, processes, rules, and decisions will be part of the same unified product for the benefit of making next-best offers and conducting next-best customer discussions. Solutions that are "just" integrated have the ability to work together, but they often need to be pieced together and the functionality is never as fluid as it is in a unified offering.
PJ: What percentage of your customers is on demand (in the cloud)? Has that become the order qualifier and/or winner in your market?KA: The Pega Cloud is still a fairly new offering, but in the past year, a third of Pega's customers have built, tested, and deployed more than 450 BPM, case management, and CRM applications on the Pega Cloud with 100 percent SLA at five times the speed of traditional methods and at one fifth the cost. Our private cloud (managed services) PaaS offering helps organizations set up COEs and ease the adoption of BPM initiatives across their departments, subsidiaries, LOBs, and even trading partners. The Pega Cloud also makes the "cloud lock-in" problem go away, with 100% portability between clouds—internal or external.
PJ: What is your strategy toward social and E2.0 tools, and their deployment for your target customers?KA: We are already able to harvest Twitter and Facebook feeds so that, e.g., a new case can be initiated from an important (pertinent) social network comment. Within our BPM suite, we already have a tool that enables collaborative feed streams among the users as well as the tagging capability (e.g., to tag a particular case to be followed by specific users). At PegaWorld 2010, we showcased new intuitive visualization and social networking capabilities to enhance ease of use by participants, aid learning, support cross roles, and even customer collaboration, and focus attention on changes in real time (e.g., a "pushpin" metaphor, a "what's happening" view, and an interactive process "sticky note"). Please stay tuned for more to come.
PJ: What is your mobility strategy (technology and platforms supported)? Has mobility become a factor in your market segments?KA: Our clients are already able to access their Pega BPM applications via their mobile devices, but we are also working on a mobility framework that will be able to render UI constructs on iPad, BlackBerry, Android, and other mainstream devices. We plan to use reusable JavaScript libraries. The current interest for mobility is not nearly as high as for the cloud, but we envision insurance adjusters and assessors, as well as many roles within health care, as benefactors from mobile BPM solutions moving forward.
PJ: Can you elaborate on your play to become an "Enterprise transformation platform"?KA: For a long time our "sliver" approach (i.e., improving one process at the time and then expanding the BPM scope within the enterprise) has worked well, and we will continue to apply it where appropriate. Lately, however, some of our customers have begun to design their front-office applications in a different manner by engaging IT and business (non-programming) staff to work together in this regard. To that end, the idea is to wrap their front-office applications into Pega BPM tools for the same look-and-feel and user experience enterprise-wide.
As Alan said in his keynote presentation, new Pega BPM applications are now written in Pega BPM tools (given that applications development is a process in itself). Also, Pega employees use Pega BPM for their CRM tasks, expense management, etc.
PJ: How do you respond to the perception that Pega is still mainly about case management and rules? In other words, what do you offer to companies where case management and rules are not the major pain points (e.g., those that want strong enterprise content management [ECM], enterprise architecture [EA], KM, etc., offerings)KA: First of all, who in the market is already that complete a solution? Perhaps IBM, Oracle, Open Text/Metastorm/Global 360, etc., but only on paper and in theory (having garnered a bunch of disparate IT assets). But in any case, Pegasystems is not all things to all people and we are cognizant of that fact. We are not in the EA play, while for full-fledged CMS capabilities, we subscribe to the content management interoperability services (CMIS) standard so that customers can integrate to ECM systems with superior capabilities (than our document management features).
PJ: How do you respond to the prospects that say "Why do we need Pega when we already have, say, SharePoint, Visio, Lotus Notes, and/or WebSphere?"KA: We talk about our rich business rules management system (BRMS) and dynamic case management capabilities, for example. Our research shows that over 40 percent of the time, prospective users are well informed about the complexity of managing claims or originating loans, where SharePoint's basic workflow is not going to help them. I think that there is a misconception that BPM is just about workflow and pushing things from one work basket into another.
We at Pega believe that BPM is more focused on business process automation, and actually having the systems perform work in order to create greater efficiencies within organizations. We feel that this distinction has been lost in translation, as more players have tried to label themselves as BPM, but as you can see, we take things to the next step by automating work functions rather than just routing items.


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BitFenix Prodigy M Review
Introduction and Technical Specification
Published: 21st October 2013 | Source: BitFenix | Price: £74.95 |
The Prodigy case has been a success since it's release back in 2012. Over the last 18 months or so BitFenix have continued to refresh the line adding the option of windowed side panels and more colour options than you can shake a paint mixing stick at. What the case has always lacked though is the ability to house the larger, and often cheaper M-ATX motherboards. It didn't take long for the modding community being the innovators they are to recognise the potential and set about transforming many a Mini-ITX Prodigy o accept the M-ATX board. Perhaps it was always on the cards, or perhaps it was in response to the desire of the community to have native M-ATX support, either way BitFenix have played a blinder and released the Prodigy M, Same exterior as the original M-ITX version but with M-ATX internals.
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The case is a bit cramped for M-ATX, with the itx version you have plenty of room for decent water cooling and good airflow. You were also not restricted on the length of the GPU either.
I think Bitfenix could of put more effort in and made the case slightly bigger for the M-ATX version. Either that or just stick to the itx design but make the case wider so you can fit a M-ATX board in the way you fitted the itx one in the original Prodigy.
It's not a bad case and does the job, but I can't help thinking it could have been much better.
Surprised it got a Gold Award if I'm honest, but it was still a good read
Think I'm going for an mITX Phenom in white. Maybe slap a white Prodigy windowed panel on there, cause there's no windowed Phenom available...
Welp, no Phenom for me, I thought they were different but must've got mixed up with something else.
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Both ITX cases are the same on the inside, as well as both mATX cases. I personally like the look of the Phenom more, but I'm not a fan of the mATX version of either.
Both ITX cases are the same on the inside, as well as both mATX cases. I personally like the look of the Phenom more, but I'm not a fan of the mATX version of either.
Ah right, thanks for clearing it up . Yeah, I do think the Phenom looks fantastic as well however I am leaning towards The Elite 130 in terms of ITX as I do love a LED front fan/black case combo for some reason
The Elite 130 is a good case though, very compact and can still fit some high-end gear. Cheap as well! I'm personally going with the Bitfenix case cause I think it looks better and it supports watercooling.
Either would make a nice Lanbox though!
panels could be switched but as for turning the front upside down you would also neeed to do the roof too.... Its not something I think we could answer now without going to rip the case apart again just to answer this. Youd be better hoping one of the members has one tbh.
You might want to make a custom panel for the new top (former bottom) though, it won't look that pretty leaving it like it is.
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April 19, 2012
A joint effort between the Berkley Center and the Public Religion Research Institute, this groundbreaking survey explores how 18-24 year-olds view faith, values, and the 2012 election. The survey of 2,000 college-age Millennials provides new insights about the moral and religious values that animate young adults, and how these values impact their voting preferences and views on a range of issues including religious pluralism, social and economic inequality, immigration, and issues of race and gender. The survey also provides clues about what young people think about important political figures and political movements of the day.
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Well a lot of running around this week, but some things are really important and can not be missed. Olympic trials and a Hall of Fame award don't just happen every day. I was really happy to be there to support my friends with their dreams, witness history being made, and be recognized for our effort in Beijing. So thank you to USA BMX and the US Olympic training center:)
Olympic trials day felt like an emotional rollarcoaster , wow. 8 of the best guys in the country trying to make one final spot on the 2012 team. First off, the new replica track setting is beautiful with the lake in the background, and purple trees and grass lining the building down to the dining hall, running track down below. Much better location for viewing. Individual rider tents with their names, etc. Things have evolved quite a bit. The track was crazy, looked steeper and more technical than any other track I have seen, 3rd straight caused some grief, but was a good separator.
They ran a different format this time. The Time trials was a best of 2 format, with points being given. Then the first two rounds, more points, 2 people got dropped, then two more rounds, and two more people being eliminated. Final was 4 guys, head to head. Winner take all.
With Connor already having the coaches pick if he didn't win, there was not much on the line for him, but the other guys had to win to get a spot. Corbin Sharrah was looking fantastic, as was mikey, the other too. But from the first lap, connor had a second lead on Corbin, 2 seconds on mikey, adn a bunch on the other guys. That is impressive in 37 seconds to pull that time. Anyway, connor won the first rond, Corbin won the next couple?? Mikey was 3rd in every one I think.
For the final, it was Connor , Corbin, Mikey, adn Barry Nobles. Think Corbin hit the gate, Connor got out front early. Mike was right in the mix, bar to bar, but eventually was 2nd in the end to Connor, Corbin 3rd, Barry 4th.
Connor got the olympic trials spot, which meant the 3rd spot on the roster went to a different coaches pick, which is a really hard decision. Based on the day for trials, it could have been either Mikey or Corbin based on Awesome performances, but they went off the points from a year of racing. Nick Long was next on that list. Consistency. So congrats to them, and David Herman who got the Automatic spot on points.
Such a big wave of emotions for each person who trained for so long, and put so much energy into one day, to be done before the big show. USA has one of the strongest teams for depth. It's gonna be good.
Crazy part was at the Hall of Fame dinner that night. The 2008 team was getting an award, we were all up on stage. Then they announced the coaches pick while Donny, Mikey, Kyle, adn I were standing there, as Nick, and I could feel the energy from the Boys next to me shift and really set in. Holding onto hope, but then realizing the finality . Guess someone has to be a back up guy, but yeah, wave of emotions. I felt a little bit of the pit, but yeah, ultimatly the people who were meant to go, are. Arielle and I experienced this last time really severe.
So Yeah, proud of the girls, Alise and Arielle, adn all the boys. Quite a life changing event about to unfold. Go get the gold!!!!!