Guest Editorial.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)

Enterprise Systems Journal, January, 2000

The move to E-business is transforming transaction processing beyond traditional IT online transaction processing to an expanded model requiring a more advanced technology infrastructure. E-transaction processing is evolving rapidly but is already a crucial business requirement. Data centers are becoming valuable repositories of customer, product and service information. Bandwidth demands can be unpredictable, with occasional sharp spikes, and portals between vendors, business partners and consumers are challenging to build. Some companies choose a distributed approach with networks of many small processors, but this scheme is costly in equipment and personnel. Centralized infrastructures and strategic advice from full-service providers allow the provision of a more efficient...

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