The success of a company depends on the existence of an efficient vision and management based on an infrastructure of coherent processes viewed from the transferred informational flow's point of view. The success of companies on the market depends on the capacity of the competitive management to collect, select and process data of society's fields of activity regarding the dynamics of the entrance/exit relationship and profit indicators, furthermore elaborating optimal decisions on this basis. The infrastructure on which decisions are generally taken is quite hard to be controlled without efficient means; if there is a lack of efficient means the decisions’ correction can be doubted.
To control the decisional hierarchy there are several solutions; three of them can be presented as follows: the first possible solution offers control over a component of the hierarchy followed by a consolidation process of these factors, the second component which offers a centralized control over the whole hierarchy and processes which compose it; another solution is the dynamic definition of control, as it is really needed, for each specific case the processes and the decisions are being molded so that the punctual control can be as accurate as possible.
From the perspective of performance offered to the management level, the three solutions can be described as follows: the first solution offers fast feed-back on immobile components, the decisional effort is considerable, taking into account the non synchronization of these partial conclusions; the other two solutions offer by integrating all modules, an enlarged consistency in the volume of information presented as a source of decision, the most efficient solution remaining the last taken into consideration at the previous paragraph since the offered integration also offers a personalized component regarding the acquisition of information as well as the informational and decisional flow control.
From the organizational viewpoint of IT flows, these solutions could be divided into two categories, the first solution lacking the information focused in an Unitarian structure is the most defective due to having a longer duration to obtain information categorized based on their nature, the two others offer from this position a data unity, thus association being unitary and more efficient. The flow of documents between the company's departments being done through the agency of the system - in case of integrated solutions - leads to a shorter time of answer connected with the processing of different information moreover offering the guarantee of producing simultaneous effects in all departments.
Another aspect that must be taken into account regarding the above presented solutions is maintenance and portability, the integrated solutions offering lower reaction time than those distributed regarding maintenance, upgrades being made unitary without introducing "dead" times in the exploitation of the system, thus the existent information remaining intact. From portability’s outlook, systems can depend on a certain technology, on the persistence support offered in most of the cases by the database server and the operating system which runs in case of client application as well as in case of applications server.
