Networks, email and the Web are giving rise to increasingly competitive global markets, while at the same time transforming the way companies collect information, make decisions, and create products and services. With these changes have come incredible opportunities and unprecedented demands. To stay competitive, businesses need tools that help them lower costs, respond rapidly to changes in the marketplace and empower employees to focus on work that adds value for customers. Increasingly, successful companies are finding that the ability to take advantage of the Internet to automate transactions with suppliers, partners and customers is critical. In this rapidly changing business environment, companies are depending more than ever on the power of software to help manage communications, analyze vast amounts of information and run critical operations.
Software is a critical link in the business chain.
As a result, business leaders have come to expect unprecedented levels of performance and reliability from software developers. Once a upon a time, IT infrastructure was primarily for making operations more efficient. With the Internet, it is being exposed to the outside world and it has become mission critical from a revenue standpoint. Issues like reliability, security, performance and deployment time are now front and center. Windows 2000, the operating system that serves as foundation for the Windows DNA platform, provides many of the elements that make Friction Free software possible.