Labels:text | screenshot | newspaper | paper | font | letter | document OCR: FROM DESKTOP TO DATA CENTER AN INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLES KNOWLEDGE WORKERS AT ALL LEVELS WITHIN AN ORGANIZATION TO ACCESS INFORMATION FROM WHEREVER THEY ARE, USING THE TOOLS OF THEIR CHOICE. THIS EXAMPLE SHOWS SOME OF THE KEY INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS OF A MULTINATIONAL PRODUCER OF COMPACT DISCS TARGETED AT THE CLASSICAL-MUSIC MARKET. A SALES MANAGER, on her way to meet the district manager for a large retail chain, dials in THE SALES AND MARKETING DEPARTMENTS to the corporate database via cellular modem and share a small database of collectively owned activates an agent process from the custom-coded information about the buying patterns of clients application developed for this purpose. The agent as well as key industry trends, Much of this information will gother all the information about this retail chain, is downloaded from the corporate database, but the and when the response comes in from the network, workgroup maintains the results of the analysis per- it will automatically reinitiale a session. AGENT PROCESS formed on the corporate dato on its own local server. ORACLE7 WORKGROUP SERVER CLIENT APPLICATION ORACLE RADIO AGENTS LOTUS 1-2-3 PERSONAL ORACLE7 LOTUS 1-2-3 ORACLE POWER OBJECTS ORACLE OBJECTS FOR OLE PERSONAL ORACLE7 A PRODUCT MANAGER ONE SALESPERSON is developing is exploring the Web servers an application on her PC that will enable of many of the music colleges workgroup members to take images and universities throughout the of the CD jewel-case covers and sound world to put together a musical samples as well as pricing and other sales database sampler that he and information with them on the road, others can cull for future titles. The application will run on the workgroup AGENT PROCESSES server, on desktop PCs, and on notebook SERVER APPLICATION computers. ORACLE7 THE CORPORATE DATABASE contains information about the company's distributors and retail outlets worldwide. The data- base contains statistics about trends in the overall music market THE BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC'S WEB SERVER as well as information about how sales are distributed across might contain such things as audio clips, résumés classical, jazz, rack, country, rap, and urban contemporary titles. of notable staff members, samples of music created The corporate database manages the agent processes that by students and guest musicians, and papers on trends perform database-processing services for remote applications. in sound technology.
