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This paper concentrates on the creation of accessible PDF files from word processing and desktop publishing systems.

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The Think Smart approach is to build a consistent, industrialised process through which to manage the four major elements of the marketing process.

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This document provides a snapshot ofthe current state of the Master Data Management (MDM) market.
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This is the first of four Market Updates on data discovery, data profiling, data cleansing and matching, and data quality platforms respectively.
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Process Management is a holistic practice that models an enterprises human and machine tasks and the interactions between them as processes with the view of improving agility and performance.

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Philip Howard

The drunkard's walk
The drunkard's walk is a concept used within probability theory and it has application within various aspects of IT. I had better start by explaining what it is. Actually, I'll start by...

Simon Holloway

Alfresco and ParaScale - a new ECM partnership
Alfresco have recently announced a cloud-based integrated ECM solution with ParaScale, a startup company developing cloud storage solutions. The Alfresco Content Management solution and ParaScale's...

Nigel Stanley

UK Government Data Handling - Some Thoughts
My data is very personal to me so, like many other people, I take great exception when it is lost or stolen by incompetent organisations. If data is lost by a private sector company I can vote...

David Norfolk

IBM Rational Software Conference 2009 - Day 2
Sorry it has taken a while to get my second report on RSC 2009 out—it's turning a braindump into respectable reportage that takes the time, I find. On Day 2, I was pleased that in the...

Peter Williams

Mixed enterprise environments could make FCoE a winner
Standards come and go, and some never have lift off; but I think FCoE is one that will ramp up—as evidently does QLogic. The starting point is that the FCoE standard is here, backed by some...

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