Interoperability - Building Systems Working Together For The Enterprise

Today's facility executive wants to purchase systems and components from various manufacturers and have those components work together as one system. They want "open systems" that allow the manufacturers to offer new features and add value without locking the owner into a single vendor's proprietary protocols. In short, they want interoperability.

However, the enterprise has been plagued with "silos of information," which stand alone. Lots of information resides in separate databases and systems. So, if one is to optimize the enterprise, information needs to be shared. And, we need to share information dynamically.