Infosys Technologies ( INFY - news - people ) (35, INFY) delivers data processing services like software development, systems integration, product engineering and testing.

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Palmer said rumors abound of Yahoo and Google releasing more real-time processing technologies for working in real-time with big data, and Streambase plans some specific product announcements in a month or so.

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Natural language-processing experts, visualization and integration engineers, and product managers also play a role in the data analysis chain.

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