COM+ Unleashed

Queued Components Overview

Ten years ago, salespeople who roamed the great outdoors on a full-time basis, visiting customers, vendors, and suppliers were accustomed to the fact that any work they did would have to be "uploaded" when they got back to their hotel. Actually, those were the advanced ones because they could at least communicate from the road. In those days, many systems wouldn't get updated until the employee either physically returned to the home office or faxed in the order and it was manually input into the company's system. This wasn't such a bad thing, however, because that's how everyone did business. Therefore, customers came to expect this period of latency between placing an order and the order being processed.

However, the ...