That sent shares of the company, which makes enterprise information systems for the hospitality industry, up nearly 9% in late trading.

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Wallington, a division chief in the Army's office of enterprise information systems, says the military is quietly working to integrate Macintosh computers into its systems to make them harder to hack.

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But despite the most sophisticated enterprise systems to capture and aggregate information, human decisions are usually made in dial up mode through things like weekly staff or quarterly budget approval meetings.

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This means converting the data into meaningful information and integrating the data with enterprise business systems to optimize existing business processes.

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However, much of this critical information may be buried within your enterprise systems and dispersed across multiple documents, system records, locations, companies and databases.

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"LotusLive is an integral vehicle for our employees to truly function as a globally integrated enterprise, " said Mitsuhiro Aoyama, vice president of corporate information systems at Panasonic.

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But the rise of super fast, all-Flash storage systems, which have been the traditional bottleneck of entreprise information systems, will have serious consequences on the architecture of the next generation enterprise IT.

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