Organizations should always use a consistent cloud opportunity identification process to reduce the risk of project failure by leveraging data from successful cloud implementations.

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Recent research from organizations like Kennedy Information and SPI Research is providing insight into the impact of technology in client acquisition and retention for professional services firms. (For specific insights from these and other industry thought leaders, please visit our online summit.) These range from opportunity identification, to proposal development, service execution and expectations management.

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Being able to mine massive amounts of historical data from the social web to extract metrics relating to activity, sentiment and anomaly identification provides financial firms with ample opportunity to isolate valid trading signal within processed social data.

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The Johannesburg conference gave some 150 participants from 34 African countries the opportunity to reflect on the achievements, debate the challenges and initiate a process for the identification of possible areas of engagement for the remaining three years.

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