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		<title><![CDATA[ Gartner: Business Process Management ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Business process management provides governance of a business's process environment to improve agility and operational performance. Gartner research focuses on a structured BPM approach employing methods, policies, metrics, and software tools to continuously optimize an organization's activities and processes. ]]></description> 
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	 							<title><![CDATA[ Microsoft's Model-Driven Approach Includes Joining Standards Body]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft's announcement is less an endorsement of the Object Management Group's architecture standards than a signal of the company's new focus on process understanding and collaboration between IT and business units. ]]></description>
		
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  					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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	 							<title><![CDATA[ Captaris Buy Gives Open Text Components to Enter New Markets]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Open Text will gain content capture, delivery, processing and archive components from this deal. These will support Open Text's strategy to offer infrastructure stack supplements and extend its appeal to new markets. ]]></description>
		
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  					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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	 							<title><![CDATA[ Appian Reaches Outside to Spur Its Growth in the BPMS Market]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Appian's recent funding and its partnership with Mega indicate it is taking new steps to grow its business in the business process management suite market. But this must be backed by sales execution from both vendors. ]]></description>
		
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  					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Case Study: Achmea's Upfront Value Analysis Yields Process Savings]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Achmea Pension Services discovered that upfront value analysis on business process management projects yielded savings that were both fast and unexpected. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Application Preview]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Oracle OpenWorld 2008, Oracle's large, annual user conference, takes place 21 through 25 September in San Francisco, California. We highlight and preview the Oracle strategies and products for attendees to focus on at the event. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Understanding Vendor Placement in the BPA Tools Magic Quadrant]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In this research, we provide greater insights into why the vendors appear where they do in the business process analysis tools Magic Quadrant and how competitive differences may affect the decision of which tool to select. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ The Business Impact of Social Computing on CRM Processes]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Social software and socialization as concepts and products, focused on improving the customer experience, are strong aspects of CRM. Gartner expects this to increase. Users must monitor changes in customer expectations and new offerings from software providers. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Taxonomy of BPO Delivery Architecture: Know What You Are Really Buying]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Business process outsourcing is a growing market, and as it grows, the diversity of delivery architectures continues to expand. This document defines the four key BPO delivery architectural styles and explains the challenges that each style poses to IT management teams. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Making the Most of 'Agile' in a Distributed Development Environment]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There is increasing interest and hype around distributed agile development. This Case Study gives insights into the realities and fundamental changes that the business and IT organization must make to minimize the risks and make the most of distributed agile development. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Matching Model Capabilities With Objectives]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Business and application models have a wide range of capabilities and purposes. Matching your objectives to the type of model being used will yield the best results. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ The Business Impact of Social Computing on the CRM Software Market]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The business impact of social computing on the CRM software market is growing rapidly, and Gartner expects this trend to increase. Users must determine how to best harness technologies and trends as drivers of growth within their particular business and industry. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ A Strategy to Build BPM Acceptance and Support When Facing Skepticism]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A recommended strategy and tactics are specified for how to gain the acceptance and user support for a BPM project, including how and why this is different from many other justification efforts and why the skepticism may be strong.  ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for Hitachi Consulting: BPM Consulting and System Integration Profile]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Many companies lack the expertise to successfully implement business process management disciplines and technologies. This report discusses the BPM consulting and system integration capabilities of Hitachi Consulting in North America. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ The Future of Content Is Modular and Miniature]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Particular kinds of documents in the future will be assembled actively by the consumer or via business process at the moment of need. Content producers will need to identify such document families, then develop related content as modular components that can be assembled in various ways. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Case Study: Achmea's Upfront Value Analysis Yields Process Savings]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Achmea Pension Services discovered that upfront value analysis on business process management projects yielded savings that were both fast and unexpected. ]]></description>
		
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  	  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Which Evolutionary Path Is Your BPMS Vendor Taking?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ End-user clients involved in business process management initiatives must understand the four paths for BPMS evolution. Some BPMS products today may be rapidly evolving in other directions and may not meet users' long-term needs. Here, we examine signs that a vendor is pursuing one or more paths. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Four Paths Characterize BPMS Market Evolution]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The business process management suite market is new, yet it has already surpassed the $1 billion mark and is the highest-growth segment of the application infrastructure and middleware market. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Laying the Groundwork for Your BPM Initiative]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ To effectively implement a business process management initiative, business planners should follow an iterative discovery process and create a BPM strategic plan. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Two Factors That Help Identify the BPMS 'Sweet Spot']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Confusion reigns about what a business process management suite is or isn't and where a BPMS should be used. This report looks at frequency of process change and ownership of process change as indicators of where use of a BPMS is likely to be most appropriate. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Business Process Management, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Business process management is a highly productive management discipline offering competitive advantage to those who do it well. BPM's impact on the enterprise and its culture, as well as BPM-focused technologies and best practices, will guide Gartner's 2008 research agenda. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Getting Started With BPM, Part 1: Assessing Readiness]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Launching a program in business process management requires understanding the steps in the BPM journey, evaluating the organization's culture, and ensuring the needed roles are identified and properly filled by the right people with the right skills. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Getting Started With BPM, Part 2: Laying the Groundwork to Launch a BPM Initiative]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ For an endeavor as multifaceted as business process management, laying the groundwork is particularly important and consequential. This note guides novices in how to take the first steps and provides the added help of a practical checklist. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Getting Started With BPM, Part 3: Understanding Critical Success Factors]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Critical BPM program success factors involve aligning work to the business strategy, selecting the right first project and staffing it with the right resources, establishing just enough governance, and knowing where the organization is starting from by conducting an analysis of the current state. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Starting Up the Business Process Competency Center]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The creation of a business process competency center can be a vital step in facilitating an enterprise's business process management efforts. Here, we discuss the value, implementation models and services of a BPCC. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Business Process Improvement Role Overview]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Organizations are turning to process management disciplines and enabling technologies to achieve operational excellence. BPI roles are evolving from traditional IT liaison and business relationship management roles; they are paced by the organization's maturity with process thinking. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Role Definition and Organizational Structure: Business Process Improvement]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The growing focus on improving business processes has led IT leadership to rethink organizational structures and craft more-proactive process-enabling roles. Becoming process-driven has far-reaching effects on organizational staffing, governance, skills, methods and disciplines. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Predicts 2008: Business Process Management Alters Business and IT Collaboration]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Burgeoning adoption of BPM disciplines and technologies fundamentally alters the way in which companies approach business process improvement and the way in which they develop, integrate and manage applications.  ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Continuous Process Improvement Needs Full-Time Attention]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ To sustain a culture of continuous process improvement, mature process-managed enterprises will assign process operations managers to support their process owners. However, fewer than 20% of Global 2000 companies will explicitly define and staff this role through 2012. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ BPA, OOA&D and Database Design Modeling Tools Are Converging Into Suites]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Increased focus on enterprise architecture, business process management and service-oriented delivery of applications is driving the convergence of business process analysis, object-oriented analysis and design, and data modeling/database design tools into suites. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ How to Achieve BPM Alignment With Enterprise Goals]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ To gain enterprise support for a BPM program, it is necessary to link any project and its results to the enterprise goals and values. This note describes and recommends three practical steps to get this vital aspect done and get the buy-in accomplished. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Application Integration, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Application integration focuses on the technologies, vendors, trends and strategies used to implement different integration styles. The 2008 Gartner Key Issues are closely aligned to topics such as business process management and composite applications that employ those styles. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The business-to-business multienterprise integration research area covers a range of multienterprise B2B integration and interoperability trends and technology, which are increasingly important as multienterprise projects proliferate on the "edge" of internal integration projects. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Platform Middleware, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Platform middleware technology is a key enabler for service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, extreme transaction processing and software as a service. Use platform middleware research to track this dynamic market as new technologies, business models and strategies keep emerging. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for SOA, EDA and WOA, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The fundamental design of business applications is changing because of the growing use of service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture and Web-oriented architecture. Developers must understand how to use all three, often in the same system, to address different aspects of processing. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Understanding Gartner's Hype Cycles, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Hype Cycles and Priority Matrices offer a snapshot of the relative maturity of technologies, IT methodologies and management disciplines. They highlight overhyped areas against those that are high impact, estimate how long technologies and trends will take to reach maturity, and help organizations decide when to adopt. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Developing and deploying applications according to new architectures is a key discipline required to gain the benefits of service orientation, cloud computing, real-time infrastructures and many other new IT developments. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Business Process Management, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ BPM has entered a second wave of hype, this time with increased focused on the management discipline in addition to the technology. Our analysis shows which aspects of BPM offer the highest value in the shortest time frame, and which are still maturing. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Enterprise Communication Applications, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise communication applications are moving communications from infrastructure-based technologies to networked applications, which will be routinely embedded in enterprise IT platforms to assist with productivity enhancement and better execution of business processes. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Business Process Outsourcing, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The BPO market is maturing at an irregular pace. Components such as accounts payable are descending into the Trough of Disillusionment or are at its nadir. Other components will mature in two to five years. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis Tools]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Business process analysis tools continue to grow in importance as business managers, process architects and process analysts seek to better understand, streamline and automate their business processes and communicate their needs to IT professionals. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Former business process management pure-play vendors continue to lead the business process management suites market, but the "classic" use case for BPMS is becoming less clear as application infrastructure technologies converge into model-driven, integrated-composition environments. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for Hitachi Consulting: BPM Consulting and System Integration Profile]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Many companies lack the expertise to successfully implement business process management disciplines and technologies. This report discusses the BPM consulting and system integration capabilities of Hitachi Consulting in North America. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in SOA Governance, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Driven by the surfacing of user needs in the area of service-oriented architecture governance, and their consequent wish to address them through technology (at least as far as the technology goes), some vendors are pioneering innovative approaches to tackle SOA governance issues. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for Oracle: Product and Service Offering Details]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This document is a companion to the 2008 Oracle Vendor Rating research and provides details on Oracle's product and service offerings. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Oracle]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Oracle is a powerhouse software vendor, with many infrastructure and application offerings. Oracle has evolved significantly during the past few years, and it will continue to evolve as it expands its software portfolio. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Business Process Management, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The business process management market is overcrowded, but don't miss the unique value propositions of these four cool vendors. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis Tools]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Business process analysis tools continue to grow in importance as business managers, process architects and process analysts seek to better understand, streamline and automate their business processes and communicate their needs to IT professionals. ]]></description>
		
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 			<title><![CDATA[ Gartner Business Process Management Summit: London]]></title> 
  	
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