Phil Francisco, IBM vice president of big data product management, said the three systems are meant to help clients deal with data-center applications.

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Google is also releasing the connector software as an open-source product so developers can build connectors to what Google executives said are about 300 other content management systems on the market.

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"We started enterprise search with the ability to search a company's Intranet, then added the ability to go into databases, collaboration systems, and applications, now this, " said Matthew Glotzbach, product management director for Google enterprise search.

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"We thought we could replicate" the same games business model on mobile as online, said Doug Purdy, a Facebook director of product management, before discovering that developers were building stand-alone apps, tailored to the Android and Apple operating systems.

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