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The Asian DevelopmentBank has launched the Asia Regional Integration Center (ARIC) website, a knowledge and information portal which facilitates the tracking of progress in the region’s accelerating economic cooperation and integration.

The new ARIC website supports the Asia and Pacific region’s efforts to promote regional cooperation and integration.

As per the ADB President, Haruhiko Kuroda, the ARIC website is a valuable tool for monitoring progress and understanding ongoing and planned regional initiatives.

Business integration software has long been the exclusive playground of proprietary closed source vendors.

But a new open source startup called Jitterbit is hoping to change the landscape a bit with its newly released Jitterbit 1.0 platform.

Jitterbit's self-named business integration software enables users, on either Windows or Linux, to integrate and connect data from diverse applications, whether they're CRM, ERP, data warehouse or other data stores.

The data can be connected via XML or any number of other different protocols, including SOAP, ODBC , HTTP and FTP.

The Business Integration software space is full of large enterprise vendors such as IBM, webMethods, Tibco and even Microsoft. Jitterbit isn't necessarily going after the large enterprises though.