AT&T Global Information Solutions’s now re-fashioned Enterprise Information Factory will provide the hardware, software, networking and consulting for a set of packaged Unix and Windows NT solutions that are being offered to the retail, financial, communications, manufacturing, public sector and transport industries. AT&T Global has previously put these kinds of configurations together on a customised basis. It is billing the stuff as the convergence of information and operation. System 3500 symmetric multiprocessors and 3600 and Teradata parallel environments are envisaged as the basis of these solutions, as well as the anticipated 3700 massively parallel processing box. AT&T Global has tied in software partners specific to each industry, plus Prism Solutions Inc for data warehousing and IRI Software Inc’s sales and marketing decision support systems and data transformation. Packages will start at around $250,000.
