STP: Like a Piece of String

- WatersTechnology Staff
- 26 Mar 2001

The question of how to properly implement a straight through processing solution may be equivalent to asking, "How long is a piece of string?" In other words, the term straight through processing is definitional. There is no single authoritative description for STP. It means different things to different organizations and different people within the same organization. And like the Tower of Babel, if there is no shared language or set of agreed-upon terms, then the result is a cacophony of

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