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PRESS RELEASE IBM Formally Acquires PureEdge Solutions Inc. Pledges Support for Emerging Electronic Forms Standard Called Xforms

PureEdge was also an active supporter of the open industry standard for
electronic form documents called XForms.

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sensitive to the strategic value of the IT investments they are making.

IBM's new e-form technology is based on Extensible Markup Language (XML),
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IBM will integrate newly-acquired e-forms into its portfolio of
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public and private companies are guarding their proprietary information more
closely," explains Bill Bradway, group VP of Retail Financial Services at
Financial Insights.
"However, these same officers are also interested in peer-group feedback
to help guide their internal priorities and discussions.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it has completed the
acquisition of PureEdge Solutions Inc.

With this acquisition, IBM customers will have the ability to seamlessly
integrate electronic forms (or e-forms) functionality into their
collaborative solution.

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Topics covered in the report include:

- Situation Overview
- Methodology
- Business Priorities
- Drivers of Change for Banks
- Annual Technology Effect on New Initiatives
- CEO/Presidents' Perceptions and Concerns About Technology
- IT Governance
- Outsourcing
- Distribution of IT Spending (Hardware, Software, Services, Internal
IT Staff, and Other)
- Future Outlook
- Essential Guidance

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Support for XML allows users
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IBM already supports XML across its portfolio of software products.

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E-forms allow for the structured exchange of data
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This study discusses how Financial Insights surveyed 91 senior executives
in chief technology officers' (CTOs') offices in financial institutions
worldwide to determine what each institution's current top technology
priorities were, what business purposes were driving investment in those
priorities, and how IT spending was expected to change over the next few
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While many forms vendors use proprietary forms technology and do not
support XForms (creating vendor lock-in), IBM supports this open standard .

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DUBLIN, Ireland, Research and Markets
(http://www. The acquisition also complements IBM's fast -growing
content management business.