And that's where a majority of the investment goes, both the architecture and the engine and power train.

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BT's own engine, Tara (Total Abstract Rendering Architecture) has been in development since 2001 and has been used to recreate virtual interactive models of buildings for planners.

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BizTalk Orchestration features a drag and drop design tool, a runtime engine to execute and debug applications and a "binding architecture" for tying business processes with applications that automate them.

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The Cognitive Engine represents the core module of the Extended Activity Reasoning system (EAR) in the CMU-Minds Eye architecture.

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