However, if an investor had purchased stock in the 30 components of the Dow in 1990 that were all deploying ERP, that investor would have benefited from a 35% decline in General and Administrative costs as a percentage of revenues, a five-fold increase in revenues as automation enabled massive scale, and an almost eight-fold increase in market cap.

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Beyond phones, tablets and e-readers, OMAP processors will make their way into cars, Internet-enabled Smart TVs and home automation gadgets.

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