While shared services centers are a valuable source of employment and income, they are also a source of less tangible but equally important benefits which includes the transfer of important skills and competencies to local knowledge workers as well as exposure to international best practices and standards.

“It’s basically got every challenge except high complexity computer graphics, but with Bing’s rich visuals and animations, we’re getting there too,” Suchter says. “I lucked out getting into social search, this area that is pretty much the big thing going on.”

It’s great to see organizations like the NFL and Xbox 360 coming together to support the fight against childhood obesity. NFL PLAY 60 has taken a leadership role in inspiring and helping kids across the country to get active every day. And Kinect is a great, simple way for families to embrace a healthier lifestyle.

The new report, entitled “Analytics: The Widening Divide,” builds on the findings from the original study by MIT SMR and IBM in 2010 to understand how companies are embedding analytics in more of the enterprise’s processes and operations. These same organizations are more than twice as likely to substantially outperform their competitive peers.

The group updated its lightweight “compact” operating system based on Windows CE in October, but the big news this fall was that a modular, embedded version of Windows 8 will be released three months after the PC version of the operating system is released, presumably late next year.

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