CASE STUDY

Helveta, a U$.$K$.-$based company that provides software to track the life cycle of a product, has been integral in tracking the world's timber and food industries. One of its products, CI World, allows governments and timber companies to monitor illegal logging$.$

A logging facility using Helveta's product can identify the forest and logger connected to individual trees by using a handheld scanner to scan information placed on each tree. Any tree that does not have the appropriate identifying information has most likely been illegally logged, and the person who cut down the tree can be identified.

From the details of this case study, it seems that Helveta is using to capture information.

Computer technology also allows companies to analyze and process large stores of raw data in order to make more informed decisions. The following data were compiled by a company using technology similar to that of the tracking system used by Mission Foods.

$\backslash$table$[[$Quarter$,$Hardwood Price,Trees Illegally Logged$],[1$Q $2011,$$$\frac{5\mathrm{.}83}{?}$ ton,$7\%$