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Pivotal Software of North Vancouver now has Yokogawa Electric as its Japanese partner. Pivotal was formerly represented in Japan by a company called East. It has dissolved that contract although East will continue to sell Pivotal products. Yokogawa will now set up a 12-member sales team to sell Pivotal's CRM products. This news was reported in all Japanese business newspapers.