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What affected the choice of system boundary?: Changes in vision

The early decision to take IT services from local X-Group companies (00164) posed particular problems for the new system would have to link to a wide variety of local systems (00193) and operate within different IT cultures. In particular this meant that the new Multinational system could not drive the local mainframes. Either data would have to be downloaded from the mainframe (proposed for claims) or rekeyed (00246).

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