Create Corporate Memory
Corporate memory refers to how well the corporation as a whole learns from previous problems and the associated solutions. The creation of corporate memory will require documentation, storage, organization, and retrieval of these solutions so that any member of the corporation can share this knowledge and not have to "reinvent the wheel."
Ideally, a manager should be able to locate and access the correct information he or she needs to make business decisions within one minute-this is called the one-minute manager. It might not be possible to achieve this level of performance at the present time, but it should be the goal for the Windows DNA systems being designed today.
XML can be used to translate data into a standard format and move it through the corporation using the DNS. A standard format will allow a diverse range of information formats, from e-mail documents to database fields, to be treated as a single entity.