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The company's industry segments are primarily financial services and insurance comprising enterprises providing banking, finance and insurance services, manufacturing, enterprises in the energy, utilities, communication and services and retail, consumer packaged goods, logistics and life sciences.

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This is the over-simplified version of the story, but it elucidates the enormous amount of logistics and information farms must coordinate from seed to consumer.

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