Also interested in acquiring the Dallas, Texas-based SoftLayer is (or was) EMC, the Massachusetts-based information management and storage firm.

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"It's funny how it's switched, " says Dr. Larry Ponemon, founder of the Ponemon Institute, a Michigan-based information management organization.

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PayWizard supports transactions made on multiple devices -- including online, iPads and other tablets, smart phones, connected TVs and digital set-top boxes -- and features a unique, web-based management dashboard that provides detailed real-time activity reports as well as valuable, actionable marketing information on viewer behaviour.

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Vineet Nayar is chief executive officer of HCL Technologies, the India-based global information technology services company, and author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down (Harvard Business Press, June 2010).

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Forward-looking statements are estimates and projections reflecting management's judgment based on currently available information and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements.

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In addition, investment on Management Information Systems, monitoring and evaluation and strategic planning will enhance the capacity for evidence-based policies.

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