This lets you leverage your existing store of company knowledge, without having to port this information to a common platform or application.

这使得您能够利用公司现有的知识库，无需将这些信息移植到一个通用的平台或应用程序。

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As a result, packaged applications can have difficultly using and generating information with other applications unless you commit the whole business to a particular application platform.

因此，除非将整个业务交给特定的应用程序平台，否则打包应用程序会难以使用和生成其他应用程序需要的信息。

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It is this functionality that allows an application running on one platform to convey information to an application running on another platform.

正是得益于这个功能，运行于一个平台上的功能才能将信息传递给运行于另一个平台上的应用程序。

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For example, Google's "APIs, " or application programming interfaces, the tools used to develop applications for a platform, pass on information about the identity of the user.

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