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June 2009: Customer Relationship Management systems are useful tools for sales professionals in any industry. Unfortunately, the professionals that run their businesses off of the Mac OS X operating system have found it difficult to find a CRM that meets their needs. This briefing was written to introduce readers to several quality CRM tools that run off of the Macintosh platform.

March 2011: The Focus Experts' Briefing: 5 Ways to Explain the Cloud was inspired by a lively Q&A thread on Focus.com. This PDF features a high level summary on the issue of how to define cloud computing and detailed contributions from the Focus Expert community. Expert responses were edited for style and grammar.

May 2008: The Root Causes of Maritime Piracy: Weak States and the Struggle to Implement International Law details the current, ongoing trend of contemporary maritime piracy in international bodies of water. This topic paper aims to fill a void in the current body of literature by analyzing the "root causes" of contemporary maritime piracy, and offers suggestions for reducing the crime long-term.

May 2008: Alphabetical bibliography detailing the resources used in developing "The Root Causes of Maritime Piracy: Weak States and the Struggle to Implement International Law" topic paper.