Meanwhile, Oracle is slowly losing market share to IBM's database products.
All shopping channels work from the same database of products, prices, promotions, etc.
And one-third of the firm's revenue now comes from cars, thanks to the incorporation of its database into products since as US Ford's Sync in-car communications system.
Networking leader Cisco has cut costs by embedding Linux and the MySQL database into its products.
Companies like Kantar, IPSOS and GfK, who do not own significant high-margin database or currency products, are subject to pricing pressures that result from a lack of differentiation and newer marketplace tools.
When the acquisition closes in the first quarter, Rational will be the fifth division within IBM software, along with Websphere, DB2 database, Tivoli management products and Lotus collaborative software.
Getting names, and more important, e-mail addresses can allow you to build up a database of prospects for future products and special promotions.
Phase two will involve collaborating with a consortium of research universities called the Sustainability Index Consortium to work with suppliers, retailers, non-governmental agencies and government to develop a comprehensive, global database on the lifecycle of the products that Wal-Mart carries.
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It uses IR, Bluetooth or RF (to the Hub) to control up to 15 devices, and is programmed using Logitech's software for PCs that pulls settings from a database of 225, 000 home entertainment products.
JackThreads , an online shopping site for men, used Custom Audiences to target specific segments of its customer database and target them with ads for products in categories the company knew were most relevant to them such as sneakers.
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The software forecasts demand for specific products and stores derived from a database of sales history, broken into half-hour increments.
At the moment the vast majority of approved farmers have agreed to participate in the AWA online product search database which allows consumers to search for particular products or farms in a region.
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We need an easier way, like an app version of the Cosmetics Safety Database, to help us choose the safest possible products in every category.
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To increase its presence in the cloud computing market, the company has started to increase focus on popularizing products like Force.com, AppExchange and Database.com.
The products involved are the already familiar engineered appliances Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and the SPARC SuperCluster, an appliance running Solaris 11 on up to 16 SPARC processors with eight cores each.
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Oracle also announced plans to launch 4 new hardware products by Sun, which will help it drive sales of its database and middleware software, which is optimized for the new SPARC super clusters.
We justified the expense as it seemed to be analogous to building up a database of email addresses of people that wanted to learn about our site and our products.
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GroupOn, on the other hand, has its own database of users that merchants pay to access, and these users may or may not be specifically interested in their products.
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