December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1050 pages
24h 49m
English
Large enterprises have a great deal of information to work with. For instance, a large clothing retailer may capture 300 gigabytes of information per year. Some portion of this information must be exchanged with suppliers and other divisions. For example, shipping must notify stores of shipments. Stores must notify inventory control of orders (see Figure 22-1).

This exchange of information is complicated by the presence of numerous specialized software applications, some of which may have been developed in-house. These specialized applications often provide something ...
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