The IBM Client Center for Advanced Analytics will offer a strong foundation for a broad public and private sector collaboration that will include Ohio State, JobsOhio, Columbus 2020, ICC, an IBM Premier Partner, and other Columbus-based businesses.

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Each client provides detailed criteria to the center upon which specific actions and warnings are required, and which can provide a sort of geo-fence for geographic monitoring and subsequent action.

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At IBM's research lab in Yorktown Heights, New York, computer scientist Baruch Schieber is using linear programming to help an IBM client schedule hours for 250 workers at a call center.

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To make sure the data it's entrusted with are safe, EDS performs a dozen or more recovery drills a month, sometimes switching a client's entire data processing operation from one computer center to a backup on the fly.

FORBES: Scare Tactics

To make sure the data it's entrusted with are safe, EDS performs a dozen or more recovery drills a month, in some cases switching a major client's entire data processing operation from one computer center to a backup on the fly.

FORBES: Scare Tactics

Kevin Curtis was working in a call center connected to Jack Curtis's business, generating client leads, according to Jack Curtis.

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"You have a much more diverse workforce today, and that kind of entertaining is viewed as nongermane to the client relationship, " said Charles Elson, Director, John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.

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