Jesse Robbins, Chief Community Officer and co-founder of OpsCode, creator of the Chef systems integration framework for the cloud, pointed out in October 2007 that working such magic creates a competitive advantage.

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If we think of Watson as a framework and integration engine for aggregating medical big data sources we may be able to fight the next war instead of the last one.

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Service providers felt their work was being hampered by a punitive Westminster policy framework, while the Scottish Executive was perceived to be promoting integration work in a more positive way.

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Free trade agreements have proliferated in East Asia over the past several years, but so far Taiwan has been excluded from this greater economic integration largely because of its diplomatic status with the exception of the landmark Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) signed with China in June 2010.

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The longer-term challenge for the Fed and other central banks is to build a new monetary-policy framework that takes account of recent structural changes in the global economy, such as the integration of China.

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