"There exists a whole host of integrated application suites designed to enable firms to coordinate activities across their organisations and maximise the value delivered to customers whilst minimising operational costs.
"However for the benefits to be reaped, firms need to focus on integrated applications that span different lines of business and different technology sets. Any difficulty in getting, for example, ERP, CRM, HR and business intelligence software to talk to communicate with each properly could hinder business efforts in general. IT just has to be fit for business. "- from a Computer Weekly podcast special received today.
Yet another example of some technobabble squeezed out from the marketing sausage machine without any proofing. I don't know why I continue to report on such tortured and slapdash English, I really don't - it is so prevalent and so many people are careless about what they write. Sigh.
As for 'ERP, CRM, HR' - perhaps it's the noise of the reader being sick in a bucket? 
SeasideMan
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I didn't mind that one, it made perfect sense to me. It could have been written using different words, but rather like trying to decipher a philosophy book, eventually you get used to the sorts of words they use.
Tom.