The economic downturn and expansion of government requirements have triggered many companies to increase their transparency and accountability around mission-critical business processes.

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"Information technology is strategically placed at the heart of the world's major industries, running most of their critical business processes, " she says.

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Understand how dependent critical business applications and processes are on particular office productivity application vs. a particular file format.

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In addition to running critical line of business applications that improve business processes, increase revenue and reduce the TCO of a field mobility solution, CS40 support is available through Intermec's recently announced INcontrol managed services offering.

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If a business critical application is running, take bandwidth from less important processes to support it.

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Since this is about business, figuring out how to add social to your processes is critical.

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