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MIT’ s “Connected Sustainable Cities” project provides a vision of how citizens can employ ubiquitous, networked intelligence to ensure the efficient and responsible use of the scarce resources ‘“ particularly energy and water ‘“ that are required for a city’ s operation, together with the effective management of waste products that a city produces, such as carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
McKinsey has partnered with the World Economic Forum to create an “Innovation Heat Map,’ by identifying factors that are common to successful innovation hubs. As part of this effort, they have examined the evolution of hundreds of such clusters around the world and analyzed over 700 variables,
The evaluation of 12 business intelligence platforms by Forrester
found that IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership, while
Oracle and SAS Institute move into leadership positions thanks to the richness of their functionality, product vision and strategy: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms