Mobile, social, globalization, cloud and legacy order management systems, for many companies, exist in completely separate areas of their business however.

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These so-called legacy applications constitute a seamless supply chain, a sophisticated customer experience, order management systems, accounts receivable systems, and so on.

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In the highest-performing e-commerce businesses mobile, social, globalization, cloud and legacy order management systems are all galvanized around that common goal: delight the customer and earn their trust.

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Some bankers worry, too, that subsidiary units may be nudged by supervisors into running separate IT and management systems in order to demonstrate that they can keep operating without the support of a parent, making them yet more inefficient.

ECONOMIST: Reshaping banking

Pierre Pourquery, of Boston Consulting Group, says it is not uncommon for investors to break their exotic purchases into smaller pieces in order to feed them into their risk-management systems.

ECONOMIST: Securitisation

An ACO would want to securitize the EOC because it can exchange future cash flows for money now, possibly using that money to modernize systems and management techniques in order to increase profits from other EOCs.

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Legal departments today must integrate (i) matter management, (ii) e-billing, and (iii) reporting systems in order to maximize the effectiveness of their data.

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