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Criticism of Existing Software Implementations

The main reasons cited are:

  • Project costs: costs typically in the hundreds of thousands of dollars
  • Time: lack of enough time to deal with large-scale data-cleansing software
  • Security: concerns over sharing information, giving an application access across systems, and effects on legacy systems

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