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The big players in the chemical industry have developed very powerful company-specific ERP systems (enterprise resource planning earlier this type of system was denoted as production planning and control) since the 1960s. The growing costs to maintain and adapt these systems have motivated the move to integrated standard business software systems in the last decade. The majority of the big chemical companies use SAP R/3 resp. SAP ERP from SAP AG other well-known solution vendors include Marcam (now part of Infor) and JD Edwards (now part of PeopleSoft resp. Oracle). 

When discussing validating databases, it is important to distinguish between a database and a Database Management System (DBMS). The DBMS is the layered software that provides the tools to build and use a database. For example, Oracle and Microsoft Access are two examples of a DBMS often used in pharmaceutical companies. 

IBM again led the way in software with 13 billion, well ahead of Microsoft with 10 billion. Then came Hitachi with 5.5 billion and Bujitsu 4.7 billion. The American leaders included Computer Associates with 3 billion, Oracle with 2 billion, and Novell with 1 billion. At the end of the twentieth century, the U.S. leaders and the Japanese challengers were sharing international markets. The European companies had all disappeared more than a decade earlier. 

Many databases used in drug discovery are ISIS/Oracle-based using MDL structural software and a variety of data entry and analysis systems, some are PC/Mac-based, and some are on a server. The ability to capture data and, then reassess its value through in silico approaches (148) has the potential to be a vast improvement over the "individual memory" systems that many drug companies used for the better part of the last century. Thus, with the retirement of a key scientist, the whole history of a project or even a department disappeared, and whatever folklore existed regarding unexplained findings with compounds 10 or 20 years before was lost with the individual. 

ORACLE is available in our company also on the VAX computer cluster. Figure 1 presents the major relevant functions. The kernel comprises all software for the management of the database and other parts of the system. Data are stored in a collection of tables described by a dictionary. A table consists of columns and rows. SQL (Structured Query Language), a standard query language, forms a shell round the kernel. Instructions for the kernel are passed down via SQL. 

Systems Integration Technique used to manage the computing systems of companies that use multiple types of software, such as an Oracle database and Microsoft Office. 

In order to facihtate communications between software used by internal supply chain partners, multinational companies have tried very hard, but generally unsuccessfully, to standardize computer systems. The emergence of the Internet protocol has helped the interaction between powerful supply chain systems such as i2, Manugistics, Ariba, Oracle and SAP R/3 to name a few. The rigour and problems related to the vahdation process still remain. In spite of the complexity and regulatory requirements, or perhaps because of it, the healthcare industry remains a huge untapped market for e-supply chain. A recent study carried out in the USA by Efficient Healthcare Consumer Response (EHCR) consortium showed that the healthcare industry could reduce its overall supply chain costs by over US 11 billion (48 per cent of the current process cost) through the efficient application of collaborative e-supply chains. 

Initially the buy-side application vendors (including Commerce One and Ariba) were driven by pure play solutions for the purchase of MRO (maintenance, repairs and operations) or indirect goods. The huge potential of e-procurement offered up by pure companies has been recognized and seized by established ERP vendors such as SAP and Oracle, and software vendors like Netscape and Datastream. 

The CPM example presented in this chapter is small for illustration purposes and to enable rapid manual calculations. Because actual CPM applications usually involve many more tasks and much larger networks which must be frequently updated, manual manipulations are not feasible. Commercial computer programs incorporating the basic algorithms described in this chapter are available for production application of the CPM and other project management tools. Examples of companies offering such software are Microsoft, Oracle, and Softonic. As shown in Figure 6.11,... 

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