As soon as companies want to combine information with data in a differently structured system, that inherently cannot be in real time. It would be extremely difficult.

The people who are most enthusiastic about this are Hewlett-Packard and IBM. They just love this. I would argue that for 99 percent of business reasons there are very few cases where you really need it. There are instances where it is needed, but they are the exception, not the rule.

As senior procurement professionals become more responsible for helping the business achieve strategic objectives, they increasingly rely on fast, accurate management information that gives them a single view of the business. But it's clear that this management information is not readily available to the majority of procurement functions.

The market-leading flexibility of the KALIDO enterprise data warehousing and master data management software is based on the technology covered in this patent. The additional distinction of having our technology US-patented further bolsters the uniqueness of our software a claim that was first validated by the UK-patent in 2003.

The market-leading flexibility of the KALIDO enterprise data warehousing and master data management software is based on the technology covered in this patent. The additional distinction of having our technology US-patented further bolsters the uniqueness of our software - a claim that was first validated by the UK-patent in 2003.

But they never mentioned it. Really, the bottom line is in my four years as an NCAA member, the lack of communication is mind-boggling.