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Overview What do these activities have in common?

A customer uses an ATM to make a transfer of money
A supplier pulls the latest specifications out of a manufacturer's bill of materials
A trader initiates an intricate sequence of moves in a complex arbitrage strategy

They and many like them depend on the reliable exchange of data between systems. Without it, organizations couldn't fulfill orders, manage a supply chain, satisfy customers, close the books or do any of the things we've come to expect as routine. Organizations take this reliable exchange of data for granted, but it is difficult to achieve.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2006	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Knowledge and Data Management, Decision Support - DW Front End, Data Acquisition - ETL, Data Sharing and Integration

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