For example, your casual email conversation about a Homeaway.com rental will probably confuse Worldmate's processing engine, again forcing a manual entry.

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While prior governance and risk control (GRC) systems for IT were essentially large spreadsheets that required a good deal of manual entry, Brinqa actively listens to machine data and other low-level outputs from IT systems, then lets users assign and customize risk indicators for their particular organization.

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The consumption data would be real-time from meters or monthly from utility bills or manual data entry.

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Founded in 2009, BrokerSavant is eliminating the need for manual data entry by developing a proprietary program that can extract pertinent information from existing property flyers.

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Is it worth spending six figures on an integrated order entry and fulfillment system when you can pay someone ten bucks an hour to do the four hours of manual work required each day instead?

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