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The people behind BIRT™
Agenda
• Introductions
• Actuate & BIRT Overview
• IBM OEM Relationship & Partnership
• Actuate and Maximo – Discover the Possibilities
• Actuate BIRT for Maximo
• A Case Study with NorthStar BlueScope Steel
• Demonstration
• Q&A
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Headquarters San Mateo, California
Offices Fribourg, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, DC, New
York
R&D: San Mateo, Kansas City, Shanghai, Toronto
Customers Over 5,000 with top-tier accounts in banking, insurance,
securities, government, health care, education, utilities and high
tech
Services Design, consulting, development, integration, training, support
Applications BI, Ad-Hoc Reporting, Analytics & Performance Management
Profitability 24% non-GAAP Operating Margin in FY2011
Founded 19 years ago in 1993
Traded BIRT on NASDAQ since 1998
Employees 550+ employees worldwide
Actuate Corporation
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Simplicity
Any user
simple
layouts easy
Power
to create
very complex
report
layouts
BIRT
What is BIRT?
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
• Any data, any visual, any scale
• Provides collaboration for end users & IT
• Modular components(interactive viewer,
Studio)
• Open and standards-based
• Flexible APIs
• Web design metaphors
• Offered in Open Source or Actuate BIRT
A New Generation of Web Design and Data Visualization Technology
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• One solution: Integrated
Dashboards, Analytics &
Scorecards
• Built on ActuateOne & BIRT
• Purpose-built to drive
improvements
• Unified user experience
• Cloud and on-premise
availability
Actuate BIRT Performance Analytics
Discover
Analyze Improve
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Discover Operational Insights with Dashboards Monitor KPIs with stunning interactive visualizations
Empowering business users
• Self-service with zero training
• Ease of use
• Customizable
Powered by BIRT
• Access any enterprise data
• Combine visual elements
• Charts, gauges, tables
• Reports and reportlets
• Web pages
• Google Gadgets
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BIRT Momentum Huge BIRT Developer Community
Thriving BIRT Community
• Over 1 Million developers
using BIRT in 157 countries
• 4th Largest Eclipse Project
• 30+ conferences featured BIRT
content worldwide
BIRT-Exchange.com
• Professionally staffed forums
• Actuate provides 95% of
developers on the Eclipse
BIRT project
• Extensive contributions
• Marketplace applications
BIRT technology is tried and tested in many applications
Cumulative BIRT Downloads
Over 10 million
downloads
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Actuate BIRT
is the only Leader in
“The Forrester Wave:™
Open Source
Business Intelligence (BI),
Q3 2010
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BIRT – fastest growing BI solution
BIRT - 10,000,000 downloads (11/2010)
BIRT – over 2 Million developers
BIRT - largest BI community in the world
BIRT - only Leader according to Forrester
BIRT - embedded in 100’s of applications
BIRT - No limits to your application needs
BIRT - OpenSource Released June 2005
BIRT – iServer Integration Released Sept 2006
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Actuate and IBM Integration Broad adoption of BIRT
Rational Application Developer*
Rational BuildForge*
Rational ClearQuest*
Rational Method Composer*
Rational RequisitePro*
Rational Quality Manager*
Rational Software Architect*
Rational Software Modeler*
Rational Systems Developer*
Rational Team Concert*
* designates
IBM Products
that embed BIRT
WebSphere RFID Center*
InfoSphere Data Architect*
WebSphere Information Server
SPSS Showcase Suite*
DB2 Universal Database
Tivoli for WebSphere Management
Tivoli Directory Server
Tivoli Common Reporting*
Tivoli Composite Application Manager*
Tivoli Maximo*
Tivoli Monitoring*
Tivoli Netcool*
Tivoli Omegamon*
Tivoli Storage Manager*
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager*
WebSphere Application Server
WebSphere Business Modeler
WebSphere ILOG JRules*
WebSphere Process Server
WebSphere Registry & Repository*
WebSphere Portal Server
Workplace Services Express
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Actuate and IBM Partnership
SOFTWARE
Eclipse BIRT Project
Technology
integrations
Maximo OEM
Info Management
WebSphere
Tivoli
Lotus
Rational
HARDWARE
Leaders in Linux
Server proven
Total storage proven
Ready for grid
Largest benchmark
on xSeries, pSeries
Systems Group
SALES AND
DISTRIBUTION
PartnerWorld
Business Partner
FSS Partner
Government
Top Star Award
Financial Services
Public Sector
SERVICES
GBS
Customer
System integration
services
Reseller
BPO
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IBM Maximo and Actuate OEM Relationship
Dec 2001
to 2002 2002
Jun 2003 to
Aug 2005
March 2005
to Jun 2008 Jun 2008 Jun 2011
Maximo
5.0 and 5.1
Maximo
5.2
Maximo 5.2
Patches 1-5
Maximo
6.0 to 6.2.1
Maximo
7.1
Maximo
7.5
Actuate 5 Actuate 7 Actuate 7 Actuate 8 Actuate 9 -------
iServer
eReports
Page Level Security
Active Portal
iServer
eReports
Page Level Security
Active Portal
iServer
eReports
Page Level Security
Active Portal
Query
eSpreadsheet
iServer
eReports
Page Level Security
Active Portal
Query
eSpreadsheet
iServer
eReports
Page Level Security
Active Portal
Query
eSpreadsheet
150 Eclipse BIRT
Provides QBR for simple, ad-hoc queries
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IBM Maximo 7 and Actuate What’s changed?
Maximo Release 7.1 May 2008 – present
• Delivers a new embedded reporting technology
• Uses Actuate-developed Open Source BIRT
• Delivers 150 BIRT reports
• Provides QBR for simple, ad-hoc queries using BIRT
• Aligns with IBM standardization of BIRT across software
products
• Does not ship with the same Actuate technology provided
in Maximo 6.x
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IBM Announcement IBM Asset Management News - July 7, 2010
• IBM will no longer offer and distribute Actuate products or updates
to Actuate products effective 01-Oct-10
• Actuate 9 distribution terminates 30-Jul-10
• Actuate 7 and 8 distribution terminates 30-Sep-10
• IBM will no longer distribute Actuate related fixes as of 01-Oct-10
• Effective immediately, defect fixes for Actuate components within
Maximo products will no longer be accepted and/or included in
future product updates
• Clients can continue to use Actuate Software in accordance with
their Maximo license
• IBM will continue to support Actuate usage through IBM products’
release End of Service (EOS) dates
• IBM’s support agreement with Actuate ends 31-Dec-10
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IBM Announcement
IBM Asset Management News - July 7, 2010
Since 2010, IBM has not distributed
Actuate products, updates or fixes, nor
had a support agreement with Actuate.
Maximo customers can continue to use
Actuate in accordance with their license.
MAXIMO IBM will continue to support Actuate
usage through IBM products’ release End
of Service (EOS) dates
IBM’s support agreement with Actuate
ends 31-Dec-10
Get Support, licenses for new users directly from
Actuate & Partners to preserve your existing
Maximo investments!
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Actuate and Maximo Discover the Possibilities
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Maximo
Application
Users Maximo Application
Maximo serves its own community
Actuate BIRT serves everyone
Actuate BIRT
Maximo
Application
Users
Consumers
of Maximo
Information
Finance
Managers
Suppliers
Asset Mgmt.
Reports
Mobile
Access
BIRT
Spreadsheets
BIRT
Performance
Scorecards
BIRT
Analytics
Dashboards
Ad Hoc
Reports ERP
HR
SCM
MES
…
Maximo
Actuate BIRT Maximizes
the Value of Maximo Information
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Information Console 11 BIRT iServer 11
Actuate iServer 8 SP2
Maximo 6 and Actuate 11 Integration
ERI
Application Tier
Active Portal 8 SP2
Maximo 6.2
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Maximo 6 Technical Considerations
ERI for BIRT is easy and documented
on the BIRT Exchange wiki
All e.Reports should be run from
Actuate 8
• If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
• IBM continues to support this
environment
Better than V7RI as can run both BIRT
and e.Reports
http://www.birt-
exchange.org/org
/wiki/index.php?title=Using_
Actuate_BIRT_and_IBM_Maxi
mo
BIRT Exchange Wiki
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Information Console 11 BIRT iServer 11
Maximo 7 and Actuate 11 Integration
ERI
Maximo
Database
Application Tier
Maximo
7.1
Open
Source
BIRT
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Maximo 7 Technical Considerations
• “Instant On” of Actuate 11 features for
OOTB or custom Maximo BIRT reports
• ERI for BIRT is easy and documented
on the BIRT Exchange wiki
• Allows co-existence of OS BIRT and
Actuate BIRT reports
Required to preserve custom Maximo
reporting features
• Enables e.Reports to be run when
upgrading to the new release
http://www.birt-
exchange.org/org
/wiki/index.php?title=Using_
Actuate_BIRT_and_IBM_Maxi
mo
BIRT Exchange Wiki
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Maximo BIRT Comparison Open Source BIRT vs. Commercial BIRT
Report Editing and Viewing Features Maximo
BIRT
Actuate
BIRT
Distribute static reports in HTML, PDF and CSV file formats
Pixel-perfect reporting
WYSIWYG report design or editing
Scheduler for running and caching reports during off-peak times
Browser UI for end user creating, modifying and viewing content
Allow end-users to personalize reports including adding
aggregation, sorting, filtering, new computed columns
Export to live Excel spreadsheets
Flash chart, gadget and object report objects
Additional output formats PPT, Excel, Word, XHTML, Postscript
Integrated user-created analytical and operational dashboards
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Maximo BIRT Comparison Open Source BIRT vs. Commercial BIRT
Data Access Features Maximo
BIRT
Actuate
BIRT
Maximo data access
Real-time access to any data source
Heterogeneous data source access from a single report
(no data warehouse required)
Support for custom data sources
Reusable, single, object-oriented metadata layer
Standard data connectors Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and
DataDirect JDBC drivers, POJO, Web Services
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Maximo BIRT Comparison Open Source BIRT vs. Commercial BIRT
Analytics Features Maximo
BIRT
Actuate
BIRT
Integrated in-memory analysis
Multiple ways to deliver analysis capabilities to users
Architecture, Environment and Configuration Features Maximo
BIRT
Actuate
BIRT
Scalable BI server
Integration with multiple web applications
Shared repository and support for enterprise reporting
Data and report caching
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BIRT Interactive Viewer Maximo BIRT reports become interactive
Interactive & Engaging
• Encourages users to seek
new perspectives
• Save their changes
• Leverages their ideas
• Creates self-sufficient users
Fully controlled by IT
• 100% Secure
• Components are reusable
• Use changes to drive
requirements
…when users become smarter, they change their questions
When presented with information, users become smarter…
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BIRT Studio
Ad-Hoc & BIRT Report Creation by Maximo Users
Web-based Ad-hoc • Drag and drop development
• Users pick template and data set
• Group, filter, sort & aggregate
• Supports all Excel functionality
IT-controlled • Templates controlled by IT
• Metadata secured
• Content can be scheduled, shared
& used with Interactive Viewer
Graphical Objects • Built-in charting
• Hide & show elements
• Select themes
Template-driven development
BIRT Studio is the only template-driven ad-hoc environment
that works within a collaborative design architecture that
includes BIRT Designers & Interactive Viewer
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Seamlessly Integrated Within Any
Environment
All Data Secured • Multi-layered security model
• Standard and JavaScript portlets
• Seamlessly integrates user security
Any Format • Brochure-quality PDF
• Live Excel, PPT, etc…
• Live documents & spreadsheets
• Mobile devices like iPhone &
Blackberry
Invisible • Supports your branding
• Integrate Marketing & Upsell
opportunities
• Simple, guided interaction & help
Present Content Seamlessly…
…in the
palm of
your hand
…in
customer
portals
…even in blogs
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ActuateOne One Design, One User Experience, One Server
One Design
• Powerful, flexible and productive
• Multiple/disparate data sources
• Open Source, open architecture
One User Experience
• Highly visual and interactive
• Collaborative architecture
• Multiple-delivery formats
One Server
• Predictable and efficient scalability
• Rock-solid reliability
• Open APIs & extension points
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Actuate is selected by world leading Organizations
Other sectors
• Blue chip companies
• Major deployments to customers
• Proven self service reporting
System Integrators
• Open API’s, flexible & powerful
• In use everywhere
Governments
• Over 200 Agencies worldwide
• Covering Federal & State & Local
• Used by nearly ever Federal Agency
• 22 of Top 25 Global Commercial Banks
• Million’s of users
• Industry leader
Financial Services
OEM Applications & Partners
• Embedded in 100’s of applications
• In use everywhere
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Batch
Smart Phones
& Tablets
BIRT
Spreadsheets
BIRT
Performance
Scorecards
BIRT
Information
Applications
Archives
BI and Performance
Management
Applications
Employees
Rich Information
Applications
Customers
and Partners
ONE BIRT
Design
ONE iServer
Data Sources
Documents
Powered by
BIRT and
Actuate Version 11
ActuateOne: The Technical Leader ONE Design, ONE User Experience, ONE Server
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Eclipse BIRT & Actuate BIRT Designers
Easy to use
• WYSIWYG Web design metaphor
• Multi-source & multi-dataset joins
• JDBC, POJO, Web Services data connectors
• Basic formats—PDF, Word, PPT, Excel, XML, HTML
Powerful development tool
• Design & component reuse
• Programmability
• Integration API’s, ODAs & Emitters
• Embed BIRT Engine in java application
Eclipse Open Source foundation
BIRT-Exchange Community
• 10M Downloads
• Forums, training, how-to’s, etc.
• Marketplace
Commercial Data Management Upgrades
• DataDirect JDBC & Oracle, DB2, SQL Server drivers
• BIRT Data Objects (in-memory OLAP)
• Information Object Designer perspective
• BIRT, e.Report & Xenos document ODAs
Commercial Design Features
• 266 Flash Objects
• Faster Actuate Viewer
• Live Excel, Emitters
• IV & Data Analyzer
• Page Level Security
Actuate BIRT Commercial Upgrades
Deployment
• iServer
• Info Console
• 360 Dashboards
• BIRT Studio
• onDemand
• BIRT Mobile
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Open Source & Commercial BIRT
Easy to use
• WYSIWYG Web
design metaphor
BIRT-Exchange
• 1.5M Developers
• Forums, training,
how-to’s, etc.
• Marketplace
Ease of Use
Powerful IDE
• Reusability
- Design packs
- Component
libraries
• Programmability
- Java & JavaScript
• API’s
• Embed BIRT engine
Developer Productivity
Multi-source
• JDBC connector
• ODA framework
• Multi-dataset joins
Data Flexibility
Multi-format
• PDF, Word, PPT,
Excel, XML, HTML
Consumer Support
Open Source Eclipse BIRT
Animated graphics
• 266 Flash objects
• HTML5 charts
BIRT Data Objects
• in-memory OLAP
• Data caching
Information Objects
• EII & metadata layer
Commercial drivers
• DataDirect JDBC
• DataDirect SFDC
• Oracle, DB2, SQL
Server , MySQL,
Postgres, TeraData
Document sources
• BIRT reports
• e.Reports
• Xenos documents
- PDF archives
- Print streams
- Cobol copybooks
User self-service
• Interactive Viewer
• BIRT 360
Dashboards
• BIRT ad-hoc Studio
• BIRT Data Analyzer
• Live Excel output
Deployment
• Scheduling & Security
• Scalability & HA
• Information Console
• Faster Actuate Viewer
• Page Level Security
• JavaScript API
(JSAPI)
Actuate BIRT Commercial
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Choose BIRT By Design
BIRT Design
Eclipse BIRT
Designer
Eclipse data
connectors
Eclipse Engine & Viewer
DESIGN Eclipse-based Development Tool
Easy web-based layout, multi-source data access, reuse, programming tools
DATA Open Data Access Framework
Donated by Actuate to Data Tools Project
USER EXPERIENCE Open Source Java Engine
Rendering and viewing BIRT content
DEPLOYMENT Flexible Deployment via APIs
Actuate BIRT Designer
Commercial data connectors
BIRT & e.Report docs, Xenos, SFDC, DataDirect
Information Objects
metadata
BIRT Data Objects
Intelligent in-memory caching
Actuate Viewer
Flash & live Excel output
BIRT Mobile
BIRT 360 Dashboards
Interactive Viewer
BIRT Studio ad-
hoc
Data Analyzer
DIY BIRT
onDemand SaaS
Public Cloud Platform as a
Service
Embedded in Java Apps
Components for OEM or iServer integrated within
app/portal
On premises
Scalable, HA cluster, center of excellence or virtual private/hybrid cloud
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Discover the
Possibilities with
Actuate BIRT and
Maximo
A Case Study with
NorthStar BlueScope
Steel
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Customer: North Star BlueScope Business Challenges
• Need to empower users with
easy-to use, self-service BI • Users need actionable insight
– when they need it
– where ever they are
– in the form required
• Delivered based on role and
security levels
• Straightforward enough for non-IT
staff to use
• Enhance visibility into business operations
• Need to base decisions on multiple data points
• Existing reporting on individual applications only
• Manual, error-prone process to consolidate
• Slow & laggy Maximo
performance with no dedicated
iServer
• Leverage data captured in
Maximo and other related
systems • ERP, Safety, Plant Control
• Reducing delivery time • Single platform for all systems
• Easy-to-use for a range of skills
• Assumptions and sources of information can be unclear, inconsistent and poorly defined
• Impacts quality, reliability, and audit-ability
• No single version of the truth
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• Add rich, customizable BI to Maximo
• Interactive dashboards with KPIs
• Operational reports
• Interactivity
• Ad hoc reporting
• Provide enhanced BI for Maximo and all applications
Actuate BIRT NSBSL’s New Enterprise Standard
“When I saw a demo of the tools Actuate provided, I knew right
away it would increase visibility of our essential operations
and help the management team run the business with improved
operational efficiency and agility. …[It] became a top priority for
our development staff.“
-- Miguel Alvarez, NSBSL President
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Actuate BIRT Framework Multiple Access Points & Data Sources
No Data Warehouse
Data Access, Transformation and Security
Actuate BIRT
Information Access
Maximo UI
MS SharePoint Dashboard Info Console
Maximo ERP Intelex
Safety
Plant
Control Other
Custom App
Mobile Web-site
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Benefits of Actuate BIRT at NSBSL
• Significant Boost in Maximo performance with dedicated iServer
• More cost-effective, giving users (customers. Vendors, suppliers etc.) access to Maximo data with Actuate licenses vs Maximo licenses
• Empower users with insight through a unified framework
• Actionable information based on roles
• Retrieve data from any data source
• Facilitate sound, timely business decisions at all levels within the company
• Enable optimization of business processes and avert errors
• Deliver rich intelligence and ad hoc capabilities to everyone
• Single version of the truth
• Ease-of-use drives adoption and improvement in operational efficiencies
• Accessible from any interface (apps, portal, web-site, information console, etc)
• Minimal training required for effective use
• Open source BIRT based platform reduces costs and delivery time
• Aligns with IBM and Maximo’s adoption of BIRT
• Open source community and extensibility accelerates deployment
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Benefits of Actuate BIRT Customer Testimonials
“Interactive Viewer was the #1 reason we chose Actuate; it helps us deliver interactivity to customers. Feedback has been super positive – ease of use, things they couldn’t do before like moving data, sharing information.”
- VP Products, Taleo Corporation
“Due to our successful implementation and measurable value-add with the Actuate and BIRT solution, we will be growing the solution’s user base to achieve further cost savings and more rich interactive reporting across our organization.”
- Executive Director, NASCO
“BIRT dashboards and reports provide instant access to summarized information at a high level for managers. From that summarized level of reporting, all users can drill down into more detailed information necessary to perform their day-to-day job functions.”
- Federal Aviation Administration
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Summary Maximo and Actuate Joint Solution
• Reduce Costs and Risk of your upgrade to Maximo v7
• Eliminate expensive rewrite of existing reports in a new technology
• Eliminate change management costs
• Dramatically reduce risk using the same iServer
• Preserve existing investment in Actuate reports and spreadsheets while
incrementally adopting new BIRT technology
• Unique capability of Actuate’s BIRT iServer, for any Maximo release v6, v7 and beyond
•NEW $20/user/month Actuate reports, spreadsheets and BIRT subscription offer
www.actuate.com/maximooffer
• Get more value from Maximo with increased visibility and accessibility of
information
• Dedicated Actuate iServer will not drag down performance of Maximo
•Empower users with safe, ad-hoc reporting using BIRT IV and BIRT Studio
• Deliver personalized operational and analytical dashboards
• Combine Maximo data with data from other enterprise systems
• Reduce Maximo deployment costs while reaching more users
• Extend Maximo information to non-Maximo application users
• Avoid costly software license fees, user training and change management expenses
• Significantly more inexpensive to open up Maximo data access with Actuate
licenses vs. Maximo licenses
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Next Steps
• Visit www.actuate.com/maximo to discover all the possibilities of maximizing
your EAM and Maximo strategies with BIRT and Actuate reports
• Maximo-Related Questions? Contact your friendly local Actuate team:
John G. Treires
Director of Business Development
Federal Systems Group
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