Team With Business Management to Drive Out IT Cost
J. Dowling - July 25, 2002

Introduction

Does it cost more to run an IT Department that uses two relational database management systems than only one? How about three? How about a company that uses twenty-one different shop floor control systems or a state government that has more than thirty purchasing systems? Let's throw out the infinitesimal percentage of companies who do benefit from having multiple variants of the same information technology and admit that it will cost more to have more...