Over at ZDNET Phil Waineright has a nice short review of NetSuite’s OneWorld System - a data integration and analysis tool for middle sized or even large enterprise deployments.

Waineright:

The new NetSuite OneWorld system gives managers much-needed instant visibility into the business …. aggregating real-time information all the way up the
management chain so that the CEO can get a constantly updated real-time view of
how the business is doing, and can instantly drill down to look at regions,
countries or even individual sales orders. All of this is done with real-time
currency conversion and role-based views, which means that the CEO in California
can pick up the phone to discuss a deal with a regional sales manager in France
and they’ll each see the same information on-screen, presented in their local
language and currency.

More generally, as innovation goes up as costs go down, IT management is well advised to review new enterprise offerings regularly in the hopes of finding new solutions or decreasing the cost to implement existing applications.