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Today’s global business environment is characterized by fierce competition and marketplace uncertainty. Companies are finding themselves vying for consumers who are increasingly in control of what, how and where they buy. Unprecedented merger and acquisition activity and industry convergence are widening individual portfolios while decreasing opportunities for differentiation. To be sure, globalization is shrinking the world and flattening the playing field for business. In this globally interconnected world, business takes on vastly different proportions. Instead of just doing business in other nations, forward-thinking companies are forming collaborative partnerships with providers in those nations to market and acquire products and services that extend their business value and competitive edge. These companies are seeing beyond traditional business boundaries and are tapping into applications, infrastructures and personnel, irrespective of where they reside, to lower their costs and maximize their profit and the quality of service they provide. They are literally transforming the way they do business and altering longstanding business models in order to differentiate the business in the face of an increasing array of competitors. Such is the nature of the globally integrated enterprise.