Speeding the Arrival of the Integrated Enterprise

Enterprise

As elusive as the concept of the integrated enterprise has been, it's great to report that businesses of all sizes finally have options that can make it a reality. The only hurdle now is educating businesses to the productivity benefits that come with it. Hopefully, that doesn't take another 20 years to happen.

Looking at the current state of line-of-business applications and how companies use them to track and manage their operations, one can't help but notice how there's a strong resemblance to the days before the networked enterprise, circa 1987. Back then, resources were dispersed in little silos we called PCs, each with its own island of resources.

When we connected all those islands with the help of server Forge ahead and stay on budget with simple to install HP server technology. networking, we got huge returns. Suddenly we could share the same contract someone wrote using Microsoft Word instead of having to save it to a floppy and copying it manually. Life was great.

Why is it then that some 20 years later, most companies aren't doing the same with their business Save 15% on Your Next Domain Purchase. Click Here. systems? The problem is almost identical, except instead of individual PCs, it's individual applications. The vast majority of organizations run one application for their sales force automation, another for accounting, perhaps another for e-commerce, and so on.