"Everyone struggles with how to gain value from their investment in information, how much they create and store, where it is, what it looks like and which are the latest versions, " says Mattos, who works within IBM's vast Data Management Software Group.

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Data from the Medical Group Management Association shows that physician productivity in these employed relationships, measured simply by RVUs, declines up to 25% compared with independent practices.

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Independent IT solutions provider Champion Solutions Group is focused on cloud and virtualization services as well as data management solutions that reduce costs, increase productivity, and mitigate risks.

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Further, soft Chinese economic data overnight also undermined gold, said Carlos Sanchez, director of risk management with CPM Group.

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In a different, though parallel, category, Allianz Group Chief Information Officer Ralf Schneider suggests 2012 will see strides in "in-memory data management, " which will pave the way for real-time enterprise computing.

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