Of course, questions over potential conflicts of interest will continue to swirl around any financial service firm that has more than one line of business.

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Fred Balboni is global leader of IBM's Business Analytics and Optimization service line.

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Now heading up the team responsible for Solution Management and Go to Market of our Customer Line Of Business Organization within SAP, I am responsible for our Sales Service and Marketing Solutions.

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So, while Lenovo is a fine company and is probably offering a decent tablet line, a one-sided presentations of their business case does not so the readers service.

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The bottom line is that we make it approachable for the business users to better accomplish their goals of product delivery, customer service, competitive analysis, etc.

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And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.

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