Our financial and operational performance for the second quarter demonstrates the strong value we provide our customers and the sizeable market opportunity for our data and information management software platform and related services.

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The shift to the cloud and the smartphone also gives Intuit a big opportunity to mine all that online spending and hiring data that can fuel new products and service ideas, and sell customers upgrades like payroll management and online banking.

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Some customers will want a private cloud implementation to maintain greater control of the end to end experience, other customers are already moving data and applications to the Windows Azure cloud to take advantage of the reduced management and hardware costs the public cloud offers.

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Called "product lifecycle management" or PLM, the software links manufacturers with their suppliers and customers to share data about a product--from conception to junkyard (see table above).

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Called "product lifecycle management, " or PLM, the software links manufacturers with their suppliers and customers to share data about a product--from conception to junkyard.

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