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(From Financial Director)
Byline: Anthony Harrington.
In many ways, 2003 is not the best year to start peering over the horizon, asking what business systems could be delivering in three-to-five years. Today, companies are so focused on cost and sweating the assets - particularly their IT assets - that any software systems vendor who wants to talk futures is speedily shown the door. However, it is often the case that just when everyone has their eyes on the here and now, questions about the likely shape of future events have a particular pertinence.
Of course, long-range research and development does not come out of nowhere.
In any ...