Voicemail waiting at the desk. Email streaming into PCs. Pagers chirping in restaurants. We live in an increasingly fast paced and information-centric world. More data was generated in the last thirty years than in the preceding 5,000.
Information is one of the most important commodities people consume today.
In fact, recent advances in the way we create, collect and disseminate information are changing the way we fundamentally live our lives - at home, on the road and at work. Our personal lives have become more hectic as work encroaches on what was free time making social schedules increasingly compressed and harried. In fact, the pace of the entire business world is accelerating rapidly. Product cycles are shrinking. In this environment, access to relevant information is essential to remaining competitive and will mean the difference between survival and extinction for many companies.