Shortening the time to market is a critical factor in maintaining a competitive advantage and achieving sustained profitability. A company's success will be achieved, in part, by its ability to leverage information technology to sift through, share and integrate data and information quickly and efficiently. Companies that can transform raw data into knowledge can shorten the time needed to bring new products to the marketplace.

With the tremendous amount of data and information that are being produced across the industry, it is critical to utilize information infrastructures to facilitate more productive collaborations across the enterprise - on a global, local and project-to-project basis.