Ultimately, companies must move toward a more integrated approach of enterprise application suites to deliver sustainable business benefits. A flexible enterprise storage foundation must support existing applications and reduce implementation time for integrated applications suites. Users recognize that an enterprise storage foundation delivers lower total cost and greater value to the corporation. As a result, users are focusing less on the initial hardware and software cost and more on the value delivered by storage solutions over the life of their applications. These enterprise storage solutions need to include functionality that enhances business continuity, information management, and information sharing. IDC used two approaches to develop information on integrated application suites and storage. Find out what these approaches are in this white paper.