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July 14, 2006

Small business, by the numbers - September 5, 2006

A new data analysis system is updating the restaurant and retail business in British Columbia

It's long been said that the key to success for retailers and restauranteurs is location, location, location. But in British Columbia, a new technology is usurping that truismÕs hold with a snappy four-letter word: ZATA.
Named after the end-of-day zed tape that spits out a business's daily sales data, ZATA is an application that gives small and independent businesses the ability to benchmark their

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