It is a data warehouse. The network-centric software is used where it is necessary to collect and to integrate data and information, in scheduled manner, for supporting managers in their decision making activities. The asynchronous processes for data liberation. Different computer and operative systems. Different working hours.
People forget to send the data to the regional offices.
Different modes of storage. It helps to capture and gather together all characteristic of nodes and systems containing information, as well as the format of this information. It generates the electronic requests or petitions called formats, which are generated once but they are filled periodically according to their definitions. Data is collected by automatic filling of these formats. Three layers form the architecture or the collector.