These systems, used to scout players and create massive databases of information for clubs to analyze, are far more advanced than instant replay and provide quite the double-standard for the argument that baseball is a pure old-fashioned sport judged by the human eye.

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ESRI's software's key strength is the "club sandwich effect" by which customers handle advanced spatial analysis with up to dozens of layers of data from economic, demographic and environmental databases.

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As databases in general become more strategically vital, and as cloud technology becomes essential within advanced IT architectures, Oracle is betting that the combination of speed and cost-performance offered by its increasingly popular Exadata engineered systems will allow the company to stay well ahead of other alternatives.

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