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Case study: Ingersoll-Rand
IBM helped Ingersoll-Rand consolidate dispersed operations, processes and infrastructure, bringing separate business units under a common enterprise resource planning (ERP) application.
Case study
Last updated:
01 Dec 2005

" Today, the business case has to be a significant driver in any IT investment. It used to be ‘IT for the sake of IT,’ but it’s not the CIO’s job to come up with brilliant IT ideas; it’s to figure out where and how the IT model can facilitate business strategies "
Barry Libenson, Vice President and CIO, Ingersoll-Rand

IBM provided Ingersoll-Rand a fully-hosted and managed Oracle application services solution, reducing operational costs. Ingersoll-Rand was a holding company which needed to consolidate its enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications into one.

Explore how this was accomplished in 90 days.

 


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