TechRepublic -- GE's $200 million bet to resurrect IT

GE Appliances had 2,673 disconnected workflows, 530 applications, 444 IT platforms, and thousands of different databases. The integration between these systems was almost non-existent. Uhls characterized the IT environment as “very good silos and very little trust.”

This is very similar to what I find in Washington State Agencies.  There are many parallels to what I see and hear about the IT struggels of Washington State Agencies. 
  TechRepublic --GE's $200 million bet to resurrect IT