The patents also include wireless communication technologies and key smartphone technologies including wireless email, proximity sensing, software-application management, location-based services and multidevice synchronization.

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Services being deployed include identity management, authentication authorization, business services, application services, and reporting services.

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This kind of myopic thinking is one of the biggest challenges for IT companies that reap a large share of their revenues from services application development and maintenance, infrastructure management and validation software.

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It also offers application performance services, on-demand managed services and business performance management services via its EdgePlatform technological platform.

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He also used an on-demand application, called NetSuite, which provides customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) services.

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While HP's solid OpenView management software brings in "billions in revenue, to deploy Web services you need to closely tie in application development, " says Governor.

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