Putting Two and Two Together

OK, so Where's the Catch?

Such examples may be alluring, but they are not easy to achieve. Agreat many companies have balked at the idea of fully integratingcorporate systems for a couple of very basic reasons: Integration is atall - and expensive - order. Forexample, CTO Julie Hall recently dealt with a major systemsintegration project when her company, Advance Paradigm, in Irving,Texas, merged with PCS Health Systems to create AdvancePCS. Hallcounted several hundred disparate systems between the two companies.Her integration project timetable: one year. The cost: 50 percent ofher total IT budget.