Is this anything to do with........
.......Microsoft's incredibly awful 364½ products?
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Every day is a School Day - thank you for pointing out that crucial piece of information.
As an "Office Automation" consultant back in the 1980s, I remember attending an MOD presentation on their requirements for CHOTS (Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System). A theatre the size of a cinema was full with interested vendors.
Their requirements were totally ridiculous, so I was left with the problem of how to stop our company getting into such a cesspit without actually saying they were nuts.
Answer: Suggest it would cost around £2 - 3m to become involved. Sorted!
Poor old ICL got the bulk of the business which is why, I suspect, they fell into Fujitsu's arms.
I used to give a presentation on "Office Automation" MANY years ago for a computer manufacturer.
My first slide gave the different terms, such as "The Electronic Office", "Office Automation", "Computers on the Desktop" and "The Paperless Office".
If I got a laugh when I said that the Paperless Office was as likely and as useful as the Paperless Loo, I knew the presentation was going to go well.
I didn't get a laugh out of a bunch of Trade Union Officials!!!!
"The various elements of the IT system architecture do not 'talk' directly to each other but operate through a variety of interfaces"
I used to work in IT for a significant UK airline and can tell you - YES, there are LOTS of interfaces between different parts of "the system(s)" which get you to your holiday destinations.