Today, I came across a company with a very promising approach to customer acquisition and customer satisfaction analysis: Saygent, an early-stage startup that has already attracted some major clients like Comcast.

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At my company, BlueKai, which provides clients data management, analysis and acquisition solutions, we have experienced an uptick in the number of full-time employees from last year.

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My specialties include storage technologies applied to Big Data analytics (primary), data management, virtualization, and analysis of storage infrastructure acquisition alternatives.

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They will be those companies that early in the game focused on ways of handling data acquisition, analysis, storage, sharing, and visualization.

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From this combined analysis, we honed our acquisition strategy to focus on the one or two solutions areas and markets that will fuel our growth to meet or exceed the targets set in our five-year plan.

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Gelsinger oversaw acquisition of a company called Greenplum, which does data analysis for outfits like the New York Stock Exchange and T-Mobile.

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