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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">This workshop introduces an innovative data integration approach that leverages the inherent power and flexibility of XML and XQuery. Based on a typical scenario where a hypothetical IT organization needs to interact with a variety of data sources to process business-critical data.</span></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Data intensive services, such as automated clearinghouses and customer on boarding solutions, are essential to everyday operational success. These and other core applications deal with a variety of disparate data formats – EDI, XML, relational, and proprietary data - and the effective integration of disparate data sources has profound implications for business success and bottom line performance. </span></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">DataDirect Data Integration Suite provides substantial return on investment gains for automated clearinghouses, third party administrators, document management services providers and other types of administrative services outsourcing companies that serve a variety of transaction-intensive industries such as healthcare, financial services, and insurance.</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Ivan Pedruzzi</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Sr. Program Manager – XML Technologies</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">DataDirect Technologies</font></p>