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This international expansion strategy places a greater demand on the information technology team within Brown-Forman by requiring its SAP systems to comply with the constantly changing financial legislation around the world.

CGT's readers rank the top 10 technology providers of a point solution or a software suite for business intelligence (BI), including analytics, data warehousing, etc.

For the 13th year in a row, CGT's readers took to the polls to elect their preferred solution and service providers.

New this year, CGT's readers rank the top five technology companies that provide software, hardware and/or services for managing "mobility" for both internal and external communications.

Humankind created more data in a single day in 2012 than it produced between 4000 BC and the year 2000! It is no wonder that Big Data is a common buzz component in today's information age dialogue. Recently, Big Data advocates from Reily Foods, Revlon and Microsoft convened to answer the question on most consumer goods executives minds: How are consumer goods companies capitalizing on all this data, and better yet, how are they using and communicating it?

New research reveals that Wal-Mart is the brand most browsed and shopped via mobile devices, but Apple, Best Buy and Kohl's deliver the most satisfactory mobile shopping experiences. The study also found that the top 10 brick and mortar retail brands leave much to be desired when it comes to meeting consumer expectations for mobile storefronts.

The financing proceeds condition of the previously announced cash tender offer by affiliates of RedPrairie to purchase all outstanding shares of JDA has been waived. In connection with this announcement, affiliates of RedPrairie have entered into definitive credit agreements relating to the financing of the proposed acquisition of JDA.

Share a new idea every day is the catch phrase for Pernod Ricard Chatter, designed as a global catalyst for generating ideas. It brings together the groups 18,800 personnel in a single, cloud-based platform.