How Boeing Solves Its Infrastructure Woes with Oracle

Boeing Co. is an American icon whose products helped the United States dominate the skies over the battlefields of World War I with their simple Model C plane; Boeing craft bombed the Nazi's into submission in World War II with their world famous Flying Fortress bombers, which also delivered the two nuclear bombs on Japan. Boeing went to space in 1969 and helped to put men on the moon.

Today Boeing 747 passenger jets shuttle thousands of people each day across the entire globe, while at the same time Boeing B1-B Lancers deliver hellfire and brimstone on the innocent inhabitants of the Middle East.

Over Boeing Co.'s nearly one hundred year history they have managed to conquer Europe in not one but two world wars, they conquered the Japanese; Boeing conquered the Middle East, commercial airliners and even space, the final frontier.

So, is there anything that Boeing has trouble doing in the new millennium? Yes. Boeing has difficulty with their own infrastructure.

As a large corporation, Boeing has acquired several companies. Each company has different ways of internal communication. Boeing's next mission needed to be to conquer their own e-mail system to prevent the communication confusion between all of their separate divisions.

To complete this task Boeing enrolled the help of Oracle, a company which pioneered the Internet much the same way as Boeing pioneered the skies above and outer space above that. The result was the Shared Service Procurement/Payables Network (SSPN). Boeing employees refer to it as "Spin."

With Spin Boeing was able to communicate with all of its global partners and order the necessary supplies, such as office supplies, for the multi-billion dollar corporation to function and please its investors and customers alike.

In addition to conquering nations in war, the skies and space in peace, Boeing have used "Spin" to take control of themselves in order to prepare for the future, a future which will surely be bright for the great American company, Boeing.