A software package with a forward thinking development plan will increase upgrading compatibility and minimise obsolescence, ultimately lowering the costs of computerisation.
Huge software houses compete constantly to build new features into their software. As a result, software such as email servers, document management systems, document authoring systems and other generic components change from year to year.
Meanwhile, companies building generic components for all industries build features at a much faster rate than companies building software for one industry. The most important features they build are interoperability of systems, something that in the long run saves money in implementation.
A shipping company should not be dependent on a marine software package that seeks to compete in features with generic multi-industry applications. Rather, the software should incorporate such features by integrating with these popular products.
Therefore, the target is to seek an architecture that integrates components from the most renowned software companies (Lotus, Microsoft, Oracle, Documentum, Jetform, Sun, Novelle Groupwise) under an architectural umbrella that encompasses the core benefit of information technology: maximum efficiency in assistance to the user's information processing.
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