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e-mail requesting information. The e-mail reply is then used to control the next step in the
process. For example, in an order fulfilment process, if an order cannot be fully allocated, the
process can e-mail the customer and ask if a part shipment is acceptable. Links in the e-mail
send a yes or no response back to the process, which continues appropriately.
2.4 Architectural representation
The deployment requirements (for example, must be able to run on a single iSeries machine)
considerably affect the overall architecture in terms of physical location of database, code,
etc. However, Geac ensures that the architecture is not constrained by these physical
limitations. ...