Passport's open standards prevent this from happening. With Passport, shops aren't married to a single vendor. You can mix and match many of your favorite brands of equipment and still enjoy a seamless network now and into the future. Plus, as more companies adopt Passport standards, you'll have even more brands to choose from. Which lets you personally select from equipment that is sure to maximize your shop's efficiency.
Some suppliers simply connect computers together and call it integration.
But integration is far more than that. A truly integrated system knows how to make the right information available at the right place, right when you need it. For instance, when computers are merely linked, you have to exit one application, such as preparing an estimate, in order to open another, say and electronic parts catalog that has pricing information. But with true integration, once you identify the work to be done, the price is looked up and inserted into the estimate automatically. The Inevitable Arrival of the Shop Network Airlines, freight carriers, manufacturing more industries than ever now rely on enterprise computing.