Dave Johnson, SVP of Corporate Strategy, told a small group of analysts that Dell is fine-tuning its ability to integrate these new pieces into its enterprise-capability mosaic.

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The planned architecture will give enterprise-level companies the capability of connecting wirelessly to a server and to applications anywhere in the world.

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It argues that many recent intrusions must be by a state because they are beyond the capability of any criminal enterprise.

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Not only does the cloud address the issue of providing affordable access to traditional supply chain applications, it also enables a whole new class of multi-enterprise supply chain visibility and collaboration capability, that was previously technically challenging and costly to deliver.

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As a result, programs such as Excel and PowerPivot can directly access marketplace data: giving Microsoft a strong capability to integrate external data into the existing tooling of the enterprise.

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Enterprise committee chair Alban Maginness said: "What we need to be doing now is to enhance our research capability".

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