Ray Lane on Real-Time Enterprises

From a Tech News.com interview: “I’ve been talking about real-time enterprises for five or six years now and that still has not occurred. And it’s not occurring with Web services. Why doesn’t computing process work the way that you, the user, want it to work? The biggest obstacle to changing anything in your company is computers. A lot could be done above the ERP (enterprise resource planning) layer to build composite applications better and offer better user access. A lot of what I’ll be doing is around finding a better process for integrating data and more intelligence. I’ve got a lot of data, but no freaking idea what it’s doing.”