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These strategies will help companies ensure they are distributing the kind of high-quality, actionable BI necessary to make real-time business decisions.
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Government fleet management body StateFleet relies on business intelligence tools to increase its forecasting accuracy in an effort to save millions of dollars annually.
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Big Blue plans to boost artificial intelligence by unifying the different schools of thought.
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