Companies like MicroFocus offer software that allows you to systematically change important data in a way that allows it to be used for testing.

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But Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive for software and systems at IBM, insists big data does not represent a huge paradigm change in processes or results.

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The change created separate sales forces to go after HCM (employee data tracking) software customers and marketing.

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