Work.com provides an enterprise-wide platform for managers and employees to set their own goals, share and discuss them, then hold each other accountable for accomplishing them.

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Red Hat hopes its support of multiple open source applications running on Linux will make the platform more attractive to corporate network managers looking for cheaper alternatives to commercial server operating systems.

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Ho hopes the platform will smooth the investing process for both managers and investors.

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"With our Sharia advisor, we have ensured the robustness of the fund platform to facilitate efficient due diligence by both managers and investors, " Ho continued.

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Last year Allianz announced plans to build an army of 2, 000 financial planners who would sell Allianz (and other asset managers') funds in Germany on an open platform-may the best product win.

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The company can use AOL, whose managers have built the world's biggest Internet access platform with 135 million mostly U.S. subscribers.

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Green u-City will also provide an open-source development platform for local developers to create further apps, either for city managers or for citizens.

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They all run the verticals (they hate when I call them Product Managers) that are core to Forbes.com and our publishing platform.

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Beth Flynn, vice president of ETF platform development at Schwab, has also noticed anecdotally an increase in ETF-only managers.

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"All it will take is one or two high-profile companies to migrate to Apple to open the floodgates for other IT managers to realize that they, too, should consider moving to a new platform, " Pile says.

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