Is it possible for most manufacturing applications to be managed separately from the platforms they run on? In our last column, (see June 2008, The time has come for the Operations Data Warehouse), we suggested that manufacturing operations organizations put on their IT hats - a timely tip given the airplay that the "convergence" term is currently enjoying. While it's largely vendor-speak at the moment, it captures the spirit of two market trends: one technology-related; the other, an organizational issue pertaining to the care and feeding of that technology from a governance perspective.
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