Mergers and acquisitions, globalization, competitive pressures, and various other factors drive the need for companies to effectively leverage their information and gain more business value out of it.

合并、收购、全球化、竞争的压力和各种其他因素迫使企业有效地利用他们的信息，从中挖掘出更大的业务价值。

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Sceptics are right to point out that grandiose mergers more often destroy brands than strengthen them, particularly when those brands are such delicate confections as chocolate bars and gooey eggs.

怀疑论者完全有理由认为大的并购对其品牌的损害胜过加强，尤其是当这些品牌是巧克力和gooey eggs等精致的糖果时。

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Mergers. Merging businesses require development organizations to merge, which means sorting out different and sometimes conflicting development practices.

合并商业并购需要开发组织进行合并，这就意味着需要合并不同的和有时互相冲突的开发实践。

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An alternative to all-out mergers, suggested by Jean Dermine, a professor at Insead, a business school near Paris, is to form a co-operative venture with foreign banks.

ECONOMIST: Banks better buck up

They may also point out that mergers are no substitute for finding new reserves an activity the mining giants have neglected in recent years.

ECONOMIST: BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto

Lawyers are already speculating that some companies will attempt to use the attack as an excuse to back out of mergers or other business deals.

FORBES: Collateral Damage