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Fast-paced business and
technical forces have brought about an
explosion of warehousing activity, a trend so
strong that it dominates current
computing architectures. On the technical front,
computing has and will continue
to get "faster, cheaper, smaller", information is and will be
"everywhere", complexity will
get harder and harder
to manage with no end in sight. From the business
perspective, increased global competition and lower profit margins makes
it
imperative to have up-to-the-minute information about
customers, suppliers,
and product performance in
order to lead today's companies. The time-to-market
pressure on information
systems to satisfy this need has become so intense that it is now a $2.9B
market worldwide
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