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| March 01, 2006 | Ojala, Marydee | COPYRIGHT 2006 Information Today, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In increase in merger and acquisition activity, coupled with evolving government legislation in many countries, has given due diligence research new weight and increased its scope. Ironically, as the requirements for doing due diligence grow in importance and prominence, the contributions of information professionals may be undervalued. Since much of the information that governments now require companies to keep stems from internal sources--information the company has collected from and about its customers--management has turned to IT departments to help them comply. The IT departments have been more interested in enterprise search to help meet information storage and ...

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