After signing ESPN in January 2008, the company finally began to stitch its messaging technology into a scalable platform rather than build requirements from scratch for each client.

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We have a very scalable platform which developers love.

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What makes this effort unique is that our colleagues at Citi Microfinance rolled up their sleeves to design a scalable savings platform to support the efficient scaling of the initiative.

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Create a scalable data analysis platform that serves the end-to-end process of making data valuable.

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Skype is a global brand Microsoft has completely rewritten the code base already and made Skype into a scalable durable software platform that is growing and profitable.

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In addition to its own distribution, Amazon has created a marketplace for other online retailers, with back office infrastructure and one-click payments as well as the infrastructure to develop on a scalable, monetizable platform.

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So it makes perfect business sense to choose an end-to-end platform that is scalable and can adapt to your changing business needs.

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"The new IBM zEnterprise System represents a potentially revolutionary change to the platform and the next phase in the evolution of highly efficient, scalable processing opening up the possibility of hosting entire workloads on a single highly integrated system, " said Martin Kennedy, Managing Director, Citi's Enterprise System Infrastructure.

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Last week, Smart Media Devices, a year-old venture that provides advertisers with scalable and targeted access to high-quality mobile-accessible content, merged with Crisp Media, a pioneering platform for rich-media mobile ad creation.

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The innovative K2 platform has been designed and developed by Garmin's automotive OEM group and is a fully customizable and scalable solution to meet the diverse needs of any car manufacturer.

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