Sure it's not the kind of makeover that will set the reality TV ratings on fire, but it's the face-lift your enterprise must have if it wants to remain competitive.

This is particularly true for well-established, large organizations that have been around for a while (to put it tastefully).

Integration allows a company to have truthful BI tools, a revenue-raising CRM system, visible supply chain and an ERP system boasting automated reconciliation processes. And these are applications that matter.

These apps benefit every part of the enterprise from internal productivity gains to customer satisfaction.

With organizations doing everything on the cheap, IT needs to support the retention of every single customer the company has - let's face it finding new ones is expensive. Here we are in 2006, where bold and beautiful IT plans are out, unless of course it is a way to increase efficiency.