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Salesforce.com will begin rolling out their Spring '10 release over the next two weeks with advanced features designed for its Sales Cloud 2 platform and Force.com sites. The biggest change you will notice is a totally revamped user interface, but there are also important changes going in under the hood -- and it's essential that your integration solution accounts for updates to the API.

Ilan Sehayek, our CTO, recently spoke to Loraine Lawson of ITBusinessEdge about some of the trends he sees for integration in 2010. From the rise of the business analyst to the continuing emergence of cloud applications, the interview is a great read.

Some choice excerpts include:

"An analyst giving requirements to a developer, the developer interpreting those requirements and then coming back and having the analyst verify by looking at various applications that the data came in correctly and things like that - that process has been too cumbersome."

TechTarget recently launched a new website named Healthcare Software Review, and one of their inaugural pieces is a great case study on one of our customers, AWPRx.

AWPRx is affiliated with 95 percent of the nation’s pharmacies to help workers compensation beneficiaries conveniently fill prescriptions and manage claims in a pure Web environment.

Posted by: Dan Oxenburgh, August 31st 2009

Infoworld announced their 2009 Bossie awards today. InfoWorld’s Bossies (or Best of Open Source Software awards) are picked by InfoWorld Test Center editors, analysts, and reviewers, and spotlight today's Top 40 open source products for business and IT pros.

We're excited to have won for the second year in a row in the platforms and middleware category!

Don't miss the live roundtable over at DM Radio tomorrow, June 18th!

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Jitterbit 3.0 Beta is now available and we're incredibly excited about the breadth and depth of the new features. As with our previous releases, Jitterbit 3.0 was not developed in a vacuum, but with the input of our entire user community and our ever-growing list of great customers. The result is a release that has a little something for everyone.

With 2.0, our focus was on simplifying the design of your integrations. Response to the integration process designer was universally positive and we were very pleased with the new levels of productivity it added to Jitterbit. But our work is never done. The next step in simplifying integration was to apply these same goals to the management of integration. This is what 3.0 is all about.

Our CEO, Sharam, just published a great article on ebizQ that discusses the requirements for integration when you go the SaaS route. If you plan to adopt SaaS, integration needs to be a forethought, not an afterthought.

An excerpt from Sharam's tips on how to pick the right integration solution:

1. Native connectivity to the most popular standard enterprise applications, legacy systems and databases, as well as the innate capability to connect with modern Web services APIs.

Dear President Obama,

I have read with great interest your technology agenda and am pleased by reports that you have asked for an official statement on the advantages the government may gain by using open source.

Posted By Larry Dyson, Director of Services, November 21st, 2008

Dreamforce 2008 was great. It wasthe largest expo I have seen at the event and the salesforce.com organizers really out-did themselves. Thanks to Salesforce for a great event!

So far we've talked about what is happening to IT departments all over the world and why it's happening. This time let's look at this challenge from a budgeting perspective. Also, I’ll share some tips for those IT members who see your department declining on how to save yourselves and your department.

Posted By Larry Dyson, Director of Services, October 13th, 2008

"If you can't support growth and innovation because you're not a disciplined organization that moves fast and surely - then you become irrelevant."
The Gartner Group

A little bit about me. I've been working in IT environments for 14 years. However, my interest in computers began with the Apple II. The first program I ever wrote went something like this:

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