Not long ago, IT may have stood for Innovative Technology. Today's economic climate has caused a shift: budgets became constricted, dollars were redirected, and much of the collective investment that would have previously been thrown at innovation was thwarted by cost-cutting initiatives geared toward maintaining both existing enterprise applications as well as the status quo. As a result, the functionality of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) suffered due to management's focus on the present (time to results - regardless of the quality) rather than on the future (time to value).
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