Tizi acknowledges that now is not an ideal time to be canvassing for extra funds in order to re-engineer an enterprise’s underlying information architecture. “There is no doubt that the economic situation makes it harder. The return on investment is harder to sell because the benefits are long term in the shape of business agility and flexibility and that is hard to sell. We also are still living with the nightmare of Y2K and the dotcom era. For example, we are still fixing up the systems that were installed to fix Y2K,” he says.

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