Web services technology is coming to the fore as UK companies struggle to integrate and develop their IT systems. Pat Sweet sums up our latest research findings.
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Rather like families who regularly pledge to get on with
each other at Christmas – and then fall out – so businesses
have made many attempts to tackle their software integration
and development problems in recent times. But while most companies
recognise the need to create a more harmonious IT environment,
very few seem able to get it right in practice.
As this year’s Conspectus
survey underlines, organisations have collected a complex
mix of applications over the years as they have introduced,
enhanced and reworked their key systems. Indeed, the number
of companies who are committed to an architecture built solely
on one platform is very small – just 6% of our sample report
an environment based on integrated ERP packages alone (see
Figure 1).
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