The results have been terrific: a world-class integrated data platform, expanded consumer and customer databases, online, self-service systems, strengthened product fulfillment, new ways of onboarding customers more quickly, and cultural acceptance of a shared services model leading to 13 consecutive quarters of double-digit million dollar annual operating margins.

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The end-to-end ocean data solution provided by Liquid Robotics' new integrated platform provides ocean data collection and processing at the point of collection with real time delivery of critical information to shore.

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We will continue to bet on an open, integrated, and highly flexible big data platform.

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The underlying promise is to provide companies a rich set of offer content, a marketing engine capable of reaching customers over multiple channels including email, SMS, social media and ads, an integrated transactional platform, and a rich data and analytics engine to optimize targeted delivery of offer content all within company branding.

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First, HDS has what it calls an Infrastructure Cloud, which serves as a platform for data center convergence, including integrated data management.

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Oracle provides a complete, integrated, and yet open device-to-data center platform that allows partners to capitalize on the myriad of new opportunities that the world of connected devices is bringing about.

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Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP(R) Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security.

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