Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Cingular CIO: Consolidating 50 Million Users Is Not Fun

Evan Schuman writes in CIO Insight:

When Cingular announced it was buying AT&T Wireless last year, top executives promised a seamless integration for users. Easy for them to say.

The top execs of the $32 billion combined wireless phone company who were making those announcements didn't have to wrestle with 2.5 petabytes of data, more than 600 overlapping applications, and tons of redundant and incompatible systems. That task fell to CIO Thaddeus Arroyo and his team of more than 6,000 IT professionals.


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