We also conduct considerable data collection and analysis to gauge progress and determine trends.

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Boston has one of 77 nationwide intelligence "fusion centers" that is involved in helping investigators in this week's bombings to pool data and conduct analysis, said Mike Sena, director of the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center.

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With a storage system that intelligently organizes, archive and retrieves all this data, the project group was able to conduct analysis in half the time compared to its previous system.

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