A repository remains one key infrastructure piece companies will need to keep track of design and run times, said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC.

“Large corporations that have grown by buying-up multiple companies might want to reduce costs by sharing processes across the organization, but they have redundant or disparate IT systems,” Bloomberg said. “Verizon has grown through numerous acquisitions over the years and they had enormous redundancies, the same system duplicated over and over again because some platforms came from GTE, Bell Atlantic and the list went on and on”

Bloomberg said companies need a way to identify services, so they implement them once rather than 20 times. And while most companies will begin by using a repository like CentraSite internally, they could theoretically put up a site and make it available to partners and affiliates.

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