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Article: Can IS take control? corporate cooperation changes its function. (Information Systems) (Field Report; Enterprise Systems)
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- Software Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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Corporate cooperation changes its function
For information systems (IS) departments, changing once-independent departments to a corporate enterprise is enticing.
Increasing cooperation among myriad departments -- such as sales and marketing, human resources, engineering, manufacturing, administration and finance -- often results from business process reengineering. Such a tacit corporate-wide arrangement looks at first glance to benefit everyone, including IS.
Backed by its mainframes, sophisticated databases and its growing data warehouses, IS can argue effectively why it should control the data. The primary reasons are integrity and ...