So in the past few years, Anglo American (mining), Billiton (mining), Old Mutual (insurance), South African Breweries and Dimension Data (a hugely successful information-technology company) have all sought primary listings elsewhere.

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But, as I and others have observed, size is just one dimension of big data, and not the most important one.

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Until now business analysts have often oversimplified this dimension of their data because of a lack of the BI system capabilities or access to location indexed data.

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By using very advanced visualisation tools like Qlikview, we can disect the data and combine them in any dimension we needed, to make sure we have good ways to track out progress, and do not miss any markets or any products or any customers.

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The new money will open TeraGrid up to more researchers, in part by adding a Web-services dimension that will let institutions tap the computer without a direct connection to the eight major data centers, which are sprinkled from San Diego to Pittsburgh.

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Data on possible weapons aboard as well as information on crews and their families does add a new dimension.

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