OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) such as approving and recording credit card transactions. This is a type of InfoVision and Commerce which is operational today
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Has major security and reliability demands but undemanding on computer and network
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Decision Support varies from fraud detection, inventory planning and market segmentation for optimizing shopping by mail
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Decision support can vary from search of a single giant relational database to galaxy-wide search of heterogeneous distributed database
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Workflow Support as in LOTUS Notes integrates Collaboration, Project Management and Distributed Databases. This supports ongoing distributed enterprise -- this is also essential in collaboratory
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