But on the business front, a new generation of specialty social analytics and business intelligence (BI) providers like GoodData, NetBase, QlikTech, and Visible Technologies have been some of the first to re-envision BI and provide the tools and platforms to create smarter, more social, special-purpose apps for creating and delivering insights to the right audience on the right device.

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