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Rob Clyde | October 2nd, 2008
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Here at Cutting Edge we have a lot of exciting technological developments and innovations to share. At the top of the list for me is the Symantec Open Collaborative Architecture (OCA), which prescribes a technology direction to enable collaboration among Symantec products and third-party and partner products.


The architecture is based on a loosely coupled interoperability model that requires products to adhere to a limited set of technology requirements in order to be considered OCA-enabled. The Symantec OCA enables products to interoperate for the purpose of data/information sharing among multiple products. This allows task and operational control of one product to be initiated by another product while creating loosely integrated process automation solutions for IT domain-specific processes, as prescribed in ITIL, for example. Working across IT domains, sharing and exchanging data, and enabling automation all contribute to greater cost effectiveness and risk...