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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Datameer

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ADatameer helps businesses clean up, combine, and organize data to make sense of it and use it for reports and machine learning.N/A

    IBM Cognos Analytics

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cognos is a full-featured business intelligence suite by IBM, designed for larger deployments. It comprises Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search, and dashboards.

    $11.25

    per month per user

    Talend Data Fabric

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Talend Data Fabric helps organizations to achieve and maintain complete, trustworthy, and uncompromised data, so that they can stay in control, mitigate risk, and drive value.N/A
    Pricing
    DatameerIBM Cognos AnalyticsTalend Data Fabric
    Editions & Modules
    Team/Enterprise
    Contact for pricing
    per month Team
    On Demand - Standard
    USD 11.25
    per month per user
    On Demand - Premium
    USD 44.90
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    DatameerIBM Cognos AnalyticsTalend Data Fabric
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DatameerIBM Cognos AnalyticsTalend Data Fabric
    Considered Multiple Products
    Datameer
    Chose Datameer
    Not sure how to compare Datameer with other products, it has a flavor of Excel and PowerPivot, it leverages D3.js and HTML5 for visualizations. The modeling capabilities are one of its strongest aspects. We've been looking at Tableau, Qlikview, Microstrategy, Cognos Insight, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datameer
    Datameer was not chosen to exclude other tools. Other tools are still used and gaining traction due to their suitability to a task and due to cost-effectiveness of license models. Every organization needs to determine the best approach to the data flow into and out of Hadoop, …
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    IBM Cognos Analytics supports better enterprise connectivity than the competition. It supports on-premises and cloud deployments, regardless of cloud platform, and also provides its own SaaS cloud platform. Other tools are locked in to specific cloud platforms and are not as …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DatameerIBM Cognos AnalyticsTalend Data Fabric
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Datameer and IBM Cognos Analytics and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    Datameer
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.7
    141 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.6132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.0139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.5134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Datameer and IBM Cognos Analytics and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    Datameer
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.9
    141 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.4139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.3142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.299 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.6136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Datameer and IBM Cognos Analytics and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    Datameer
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    9.2
    139 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Talend Data Fabric
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    Ratings
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.838 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.3135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.836 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.2137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Datameer and IBM Cognos Analytics and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    Datameer
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.4
    127 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.9124 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.0117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.7113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.950 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Datameer and IBM Cognos Analytics and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    Datameer
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.8
    133 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings7.5132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.5130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.4130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.260 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.6114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Datameer and IBM Cognos Analytics and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    Datameer
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    6.3
    111 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.7106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings6.392 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.698 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Datameer and IBM Cognos Analytics and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    Datameer
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    9.1
    89 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    REST API00 Ratings7.685 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings7.781 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings9.914 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings9.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings9.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings9.911 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DatameerIBM Cognos AnalyticsTalend Data Fabric
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (161 ratings)
    9.6
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.4
    (7 ratings)
    8.4
    (31 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    -
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    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    8.3
    (40 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    DatameerIBM Cognos AnalyticsTalend Data Fabric
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Datameer
    Datameer is a great tool if someone is capable of keeping the most recent version of the tool up to date along with the most recent version of the distribution of Hadoop. The tool is easy to support but it must have someone who can run the back end processes
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    IBM
    We are a larger, more established company with a backlog of data in Excel and multiple departments. Everything was on Excel sheets in a file being run manually monthly. I think it is a good bridge for a company that was stuck in the 2000's but isn't ready to come to 2026 yet. It's for a company that needs a reporting solution and has needed it for quite some time but not a techy company with lots of integration issues and reports in 5 different places.
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    Qlik
    Truly trusted contact center where the effective solution is always guaranteed. It is not a one-off fix to a specific data integration or management problem. It is a permanent and scalable solution to manage all of your data under a unified environment. Easy to use, great performance, used it for our internal data warehouse. Easy to build and connect to our data sources such as Salesforce, Netsuite, and Marketo.
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    Pros
    Datameer
    • It leverages scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of hadoop to deliver an end-user focused analytic platform for big data without involvement of IT.
    • It overcomes Hadoop`s complexity by providing GUI interface with pre-built functions across integration, analytics and data visualization .
    • Excel feature is awesome for business users which is already provided by Datameer.
    • Using datameer now user can do smart analytic using Decision Trees, Column dependency and recommendation.
    • Recently HTML5 inclusion is making application to available on a wider range of devices, including the iPad and other mobile devices which does not support Flash.
    • It can be used in premise or in a cloud computing environment.
    • Wizard-based data integration designed for IT and business users to schedule and do transformation of large sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data without any knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem.
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    IBM
    • Enterprise reporting - Create, customise, and run reports on sales trends, consumer sentiment, etc.
    • Dashboard creation and data exploration & analysis - Using drag and drop feature to create ad-hoc visualisation. Additionally, using AI powered natural language query feature for data analysis and dashboard input (formation of pie, bar, line charts). It's useful for no-technical person to put queries around the spreadsheet data to get quick answers.
    • Building insights for accurate decision making - Package reports with data backed insights for stakeholders in pdf, and Excel format to support business ad-hoc cases, forecasting and strategic recommendations on relevant asks.
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    Qlik
    • It supports a wide variety of connectors (Systems/endpoints)
    • It provides great flexibility for developers as it not only has a lot of predefined ready to use the function but also provides the ability to use complex java code within the platform. Great tool if you have good developers available.
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    Cons
    Datameer
    • Concentration issues are possible while using a lot of tabs at once.
    • In most cases, the length of a tutorial video is excessive.
    • A more condensed design is certainly a viable option.
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    IBM
    • IBM Cognos Analytics enables customer data segmentation, which is essential for marketing, improving and streamlining purchasing behavior and preferences. This helps companies create more targeted and effective marketing campaigns.
    • Our clients Through data analysis, we can identify and observe trends in the behavior of other clients, allowing us to anticipate needs and adjust strategies to avoid consequences.
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    Qlik
    • The print and export functionality are missing in the Community version which frustrates a lot of our clients as well as internal users.
    • The learning curve is very steep for all Talend products including DQ.
    • Lack of easy to create workflows for jobs that can be repeated.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Datameer
    Employees with intermediate SQL and Hive knowledge can generate reports faster than using Datameer . It does have visualization tool but I don't think it is anything that cannot be accomplished by importing the data in Excel
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    IBM
    For an existing solution, renewing licenses does provide a good return on investment. Additionally, while rolling out scorecards and dashboards with little adhoc capabilities, to end users, cognos is very easily scalable. It also allows to create a solution that has a mix of OLAP and relational data-sources, which is a limitation with other tools. Synchronizing with existing security setup is easy too.
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    Qlik
    Lack of report export and publication! Steep learning curve!
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    Usability
    Datameer
    Easy to use for most things, starts to require some planning as your projects get more complex.
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    IBM
    We have a strong user base (3500 users) that are highly utilizing this tool. Basic users are able to consume content within the applied security model. We have a set of advanced users that really push the limits of Cognos with Report and Query Studio. These users have created a lot of personal content and stored it in 'My Reports'. Users enjoy this flexibility.
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    Qlik
    At this moment the usability of Talend Data Quality is optimal, too bad I cannot say the same in the first three months, it was always a problem due to its steep learning curve, but what matters is being able to use it effectively at this precise moment.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Datameer
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Reports can typically be viewed through any browser that can access the server, so the availability is ultimately up to what the company utilizing it is comfortable with allowing, though report development tends to be more picky about browsers and settings as mentioned above. It also has an optional iPad app and general mobile browsing support, but dashboards lack the mobile compatibility. What keeps it from getting a higher score is the desktop tools that are vital to the development process. The compatibility with only Windows when the server has a wide range of compatibility can be a real sore point for a company that outfits its employees exclusively with Mac or Linux machines. Of course, if they are planning on outsourcing the development anyways, it's a rather moot point
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    Qlik
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    Performance
    Datameer
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Overall no major complaints but it doesn't handle DMR (Dimensionally Modeled for Relational) very well. DMR modelling is a capability that IBM Cognos Framework Manager provides allowing you to specify dimensional information for relational metadata and allows for OLAP-style queries. However, the capability is not very efficient and, for example, if I'm using only 2 columns on a 20-column model, the software is not smart enough to exclude 18 columns and the query side gets progressively larger and larger until it's effectively unusable.
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    Qlik
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    Support Rating
    Datameer
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Why is their web application not working as fast as you think it should? They never know, and it is always a a bunch of shots in the dark to find out. Trying to download software from them is like trying to find a book at the library before computers were invented.
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    Qlik
    Talend Data Quality gave us direct help in the learning process and prevented us from taking many more months to adapt and I appreciate this from the heart, I think that thanks to the support we can have very detailed reports that help increase the use of Talend Data Quality in the company.
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    In-Person Training
    Datameer
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    IBM
    Onsite training provided by IBM Cognos was effective and as expected. They did not perform training with our data which was a bit difficult for our end-users.
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    Qlik
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    Online Training
    Datameer
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    The online courses they offer are thorough and presented in such a way that someone who isn't already familiar with the general design methodologies used in this field will be capable of making a good design. The training environments are provided as a fully self contained virtual machine with everything needed already to create the environments. We've had some persisting issues with the environments becoming unavailable, but support has been responsive when these issues arise and straightening them out for us
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    Qlik
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    Implementation Rating
    Datameer
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Make sure that any custom tables that you have, are built into your metadata packages. You can still access them via SQL queries in Cognos, but it is much easier to have them as a part of the available metadata packages.
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    Qlik
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    Alternatives Considered
    Datameer
    Pricing, support, and ease of use. We plan to scale up our data over the net few years and Datameer gives us all the things we need in one tool. Handles large transformations quickly and works with all the cloud data warehouses.
    Datameer's per-user pricing sealed the deal for us as we plan to transfer much more data over the next few years. We looked at Fivetran but the usage pricing discourages growth. We also looked at Informatica but it was too expensive and didn't work as well with other BI tools like Datameer does.
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    IBM
    Cognos has the edge over Crystal Reports because you have to create any ODBC/JDBC setups. Cognos provides the ability to created scheduled reports where as SAP requires additional parameters to achieve this functionality. This next thing that I'm about to mention serves as a BIG advantage - Crystal Reports has to be installed onto each User's PC which is time consuming for a Bank that has hundreds of Employees where as Cognos of course doesn't require this process as its a cloud app and even better, Users sign into to the app via SSO (Single Sign On).
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    Qlik
    The engine with which it works to process a lot of information is striking, the comparison also being the connectors it has for different RDBMS, which other tools do not count as they are GNU licenses or community editions. The friendly and intuitive environment is what catches the eye. that's why I choose Talend over any other tool
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    Scalability
    Datameer
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    IBM
    We rate IBM Cognos Analytics a 9 out of 10 for overall scalability. The platform handles large numbers of users, reports, and analytical workloads very reliably. We have experienced strong performance even in demanding enterprise environments with substantial data volumes. Its architecture provides sufficient flexibility to scale resources according to demand, making it well suited for large, business-critical deployments.
    Incentivized
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    Qlik
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    Return on Investment
    Datameer
    • We have not been able to reach our business objectives just yet.
    • Hadoop its a hard sell in most companies still.
    • Legacy skills are still highly on demand and as long as an easier path leverage SQL for example is available, it would be hard to gain more adoption.
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    IBM
    • The platform can be pretty pricey.
    • Convoluted contracts and they fine you for any breach during audits.
    • Things are changed between releases without any warning and break.
    • It is second to none at being able to customize list and crosstab type reports.
    • You can easily set up a report to be emailed out every day and even have it export the report to a shared folder.
    • On-prem environments can be scaled up pretty much as much as you would like.
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    Qlik
    • Definitely simplified the development efforts on our end in doing the data integration, saving lots of human hours.
    • Small company, so cost could be a problem for these services, but works so far.
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    ScreenShots

    Datameer Screenshots

    Screenshot of DATA TRANSFORMATION: SQL or No Code

SQL SELECT statements can be used to explore and shape data. Work is represented visually on a canvas like interface, making it easier to design and maintain projects.

Datameer includes library of pre-built drag-and-drop transformations to accelerate SQL development or transform datasets without writing code.Screenshot of DATA CATALOG: Collaboration in Snowflake

Search, Metadata, Data Profiling, and Auto documentationScreenshot of AUTOMATION & INSIGHTS

Insights can be sent to email or Slack, integrated, and deployed to SnowflakeScreenshot of PRODUCTION PIPELINES: From ad-hoc exploration to production pipelines

GIT version control, materialization, dependency management, monitoring

    IBM Cognos Analytics Screenshots

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