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What affected the choice of systems architecture?: X needed to operate as a global company

Because this was a fairly specialised market there wasn't an off-the-shelf package (00245) and as they hoped to use IT to get ahead of the competition (00162, 00213) would they have wanted to use anyone else's system? In contrast, when the Marine system was considered (00350) they did buy a package.

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Environment: Competition
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