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Foil 10 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications
-- Business (Enterprise Systems)

From Challenges and Opportunities for Information Technology in ECS ECS Faculty Retreat -- 15 October 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) such as approving and recording credit card transactions. This is a type of InfoVision and Commerce which is operational today
  • Has major security and reliability demands but undemanding on computer and network
Decision Support varies from fraud detection, inventory planning and market segmentation for optimizing shopping by mail
Decision support can vary from search of a single giant relational database to galaxy-wide search of heterogeneous distributed database
Workflow Support as in LOTUS Notes integrates Collaboration, Project Management and Distributed Databases. This supports ongoing distributed enterprise -- this is also essential in collaboratory
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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