Though this article is written about the industry that I know, technology, I believe it is broadly applicable to many industries.

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Today, Apigee announced the launch Apigee Insights, a platform for capturing and operationalizing signals gathered from big data, contextual data, and interactions intermediated by APIs. (Apigee has published an e-book explaining the platform.) But the core vision of the product is based on an advanced pattern for big data value creation that will be applicable to many industries.

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So, can this be made into a general principle, applicable across lots of industries?

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