posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 12:11 PM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Everyone likes to see how other companies work
I've mentioned before about the Microsoft Technet site 'How Microsoft does IT' and they have another good video explaining one of their internal systems called ManagePoint.
"ManagePoint is a centralized intranet-based web application that provides key information about a manager's organization, staffing, expense, and policy compliance."
It takes alot of work and effort to get multiple systems talking together especially a cross business boundaries.
Griffin Caprio talks about how Microsoft's products work reasonably well together and I have to agree. They are far from perfect, but most companies have a difficult time getting their own internal IT systems and processes working together - whether it is a single username/password for employees to remember or multiple intranets or multiple CRMs or multiple similar line of business applications.
I noticed Barclays Capital have some public demos of their electronic trading systems, it's interesting again as these companies tend to be very competitive with each other on IT solutions.