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Enterprise Data Mashups Solve Key Business Problems
In information technology, change comes in overlapping waves. For the past 10 years, organizations have been dealing with the data tsunami. But to date, data has been largely segmented into silos according to type. Enterprise applications generate structured data populating databases. Productivity tools create unstructured data stored in files and content management systems. The growth of the Internet has led to the creation of semi-structured data such as email, chat, Web pages and blogs.

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FTD Provides Mission-Critical BI to Distributor Network
Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) is the world's leading provider of floral-related products and services. With a network of 50,000 FTD affiliates spanning the globe, Chicago-based FTD processes approximately fifteen million orders annually through about 20,000 retail florists in the United States alone and enjoys revenues in excess of $450 million.

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MultiValue Integration to SQL Server Delivers Rapid ROI
Founded in 1953, National Distributing & Contracting (NDC), is the largest organization of independent medical, surgical and dental supply distributors in North America. Its members generate approximately $6.5 billion in sales. Strategically located just south of Nashville, TN, and operating out of a 160,000 square foot state-of-the-art distribution facility, NDC distributes healthcare products from brand name manufacturers across the entire healthcare continuum. Additionally, NDC carries an extensive line of private label offerings. "Our vision is to provide access to products and services that will keep the local and regional independent medical products distributor competitive with the large, national companies," said Gregory Laird, vice president of information technology at NDC.

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Melissa Data’s Email Object Verifies Email Addresses
Consider it your data quality firewall. The Data Quality Suite from Melissa Data, a provider of data hygiene software, databases, developer tools, Web services, data enhancement services, and mailing lists, serves to ensure that all of the major contact points of information that a company has with its customers--name, address, telephone number--have been checked, verified, and if need be, corrected and standardized.

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