An anonymous reader writes: We are mid-sized HW/SW manufacturing company with main 4 organizational pillar as Engineering, Global Support, Business (Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance etc. all in one bucket) and IT, growing decently for last decade. We have lot of in house applications supported by IT as well within other 3 organizations. Also, to fast track lot of things, few ASP model based outsourced applications, owned by business units, also came in picture. In addition, few smaller companies were acquired in recent years which added more tools. By tools, I mean SDLC tools like Issue/Task Tracking, Collaboration, Project Management, Production Monitoring, IDEs, home grown apps (various internal websites) etc. and technology stack for supporting those apps, and NOT enterprise apps like SAP, Siebel etc.
Last year, we initiated activities for tools standardization within IT but it moved on to low priority. Again we would like to initiate process to standardize on tools in coming year or 2, and would be glad to know from /.ers about their opinion. Main criteria that we are thinking to start off with is identifying all the tools that we must have across organization for productivity improvement as well better processes control. What are various tools that /.ers think are must for any organization and what was their experience in standarding them, if any?
