By providing location functions, data and visualization tools as a service much like SalesForce.com provides CRM services, ESRI is aiming to bring location analytics to main stream business users.

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Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.

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Fring as a VoIP service, and it still functions properly on my Xoom on the Verizon network.

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The number of Software-as-a-Service applications available today for managing business functions like finance, HR and more can help startups better handle rapid growth.

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As it now functions, the Web site is primarily hosted on a Swedish Internet service provider called PRQ.se, which was created to withstand both legal pressure and cyber attacks, and which fiercely preserves the anonymity of its clients.

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More than one out four of the 1, 364 organizations surveyed (27%), in fact, already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions.

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