We have hundreds of design opportunities in place at the moment. Home automation products will be on the market this year.

Automation is becoming extremely important, especially with laws being mandated by the government.

We're actually going to be releasing our marketing automation module earlier than expected.

We see growing revenue from vertical and horizontal applications developed by Salesforce.com and partners, as well as continuing momentum for the core sales force automation offering, ... We believe the deployment of these applications will result in more subscribers to Salesforce.com.

CSC has built a strong reputation in the Chicago-area market, distributing some of the same brands of office automation equipment that we have in many of our locations.

Another reason for fewer jobs is the increased productivity by companies. More production is gotten out of few people because of automation and improved manufacturing processes.

We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution

Companies are realizing that their supply chain can be a competitive advantage. Automation is one strategy that can help a company improve its service quality and provide faster order fulfillment times.

Last year's efforts brought 175 more positions. The major deterrent is not so much the movement of plants overseas as the automation built into new plants.

Things change, so you need people pushing buttons. When the director says 'drop cut seven and insert cut six,' automation can't do that. Sports is a seat-of-the-pants operation. For instance, we don't have a graphic for someone breaking a leg or falling on the ice or sky jump. If that happens, we need a custom graphic. You have to be able to change on the fly.