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Article: Desktop Detectives. IWR LABS: There is a growing realisation that users are spending too much time hunting for information - either on the web or on their desktop PCs. It's time to integrate the two and make the process easier. Davey Winder explores this new frontier.
- Article from:
- Information World Review
- Article date:
- May 7, 2005
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A recent Butler Group Review paper on business intelligence (February 2005) reports that anywhere up to 80% of a knowledge worker's time is spent hunting for information, and 80% of corporate information is held on users' desktop PCs.
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