Six years ago, gap intelligence hosted its own email server that required expensive licenses to expand users, had to be maintained by an expensive tech support nerd, and was always at risk for a failed hard drive, motherboard, or California brown out.

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Because of The Cloud, gap intelligence has the same infrastructure, server capacity, and overall data security as companies 1, 000 times our size.

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From Hadoop, data was exported to an OLAP Server and Oracle for business intelligence and a data warehouse.

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