Take another example of a Business Intelligence tool to analyze how a company is performing in sales across multiple territories.

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The data and, even more significantly, a tool to analyze it, are now in the hands of the people across the globe.

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Fiction is the greatest tool to analyze the human condition.

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DolphinSearch, distributed by Reed Elsevier and now in use in the Enron case, is a litigation tool that uses artificial intelligence to analyze language and retrieve hard-to-find documents.

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The investors are likely to pull the raw information about a borrower, roll up their sleeves, and analyze the credit quality themselves, either as a primary decision-making tool, or as a double-check on the rating.

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For example, using a tool called Sensemaker, GlobalGiving worked with its partners around the globe to gather and analyze thousands of stories in order to identify successful development projects from the patterns of perspectives.

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