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IT departments are sometimes plagued with a myriad of applications that are hard to maintain because they were developed in silos, or for one purpose and exploited to do another. You can have applications running on the same box, that can’t even talk to each other, because the development in a silo didn’t use the same meta data to refer to items. The problem is that there is not a large investment in organizations to resolve the administrative problem. Management needs to have a quantitative answer to the question who is doing what, where are they, how much more do we have coming through the door, what changes are going on here and there, and how much time are we spending. There are basic questions. In order to solve the basic questions, one needs a central shopping area in order to synchronize the data. Creating applications and releasing applications in a silo for a single purpose only leads to a long run view of a department stuck in a quagmire of incompatible apps trying to compare apples to oranges to grapes to try to figure out where the departmental resources have been exerted.