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How do I use www.itbusinessedge.com? Our Web site, www.itbusinessedge.com, is your door to our ever-growing database of business intelligence research. Each week, we add more than 200 new content summaries and recommendations to our archive of thousands of useful articles. All of our content can be accessed via the Search box you'll find at the top of every page of the site. You'll get a results page that features the best matches for your inquiry, based on timeliness and our research team's ranking of the content. Every day, the Web site's home page directs you to the best, most recent postings from our research team. You can click through to read our Takeaway executive summaries and to find more information about the topics that interest you. From here, subscribers can click through to the full content item at its source, or check out the best related items we'll suggest. You can also visit hub pages devoted to our Priorities, either by clicking on the Priority's name in the navigational element you'll find to left of each page or by choosing it from the drop-down found next to the site's Search box. Click here to check out our Site Intro page. Click here to find out how you can subscribe to RSS feeds.
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