The excitement surrounding the Rocket Ships causes investors to ignore obvious and pertinent data about the business that otherwise would cause them to not invest.

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By deploying a swarm of different algorithms that include carbon, water, GHG, and other pertinent data, we can run regressions and other analyses to pick the behaviors and actions that will result in more sustainable ends.

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Once the sustainability issues are established and the relevant KPIs are identified, you are off to a good start in selecting the right sustainability software, which can best address the need to collect, monitor, analyze and report pertinent data.

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GMI, based in New York and recently merged with the Corporate Library, a governance research firm, rates the practices of more than 4, 100 companies by examining pertinent public data, including regulatory filings, company websites and news services, to see how well they follow securities regulations, stock exchange listing requirements and various corporate governance codes and principles.

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Thomson Reuters sees great opportunity for growth if business customers are familiar with its whole suite of products, which includes data pertinent to those in the financial, legal, tax, accounting, healthcare, science and media professions.

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Furthermore, the issues of accuracy of data are as pertinent as ever.

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Founded in 2009, BrokerSavant is eliminating the need for manual data entry by developing a proprietary program that can extract pertinent information from existing property flyers.

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