Ecics
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ECICS stands for Electronic Computing Information Consolidation System.
ECICS is a system, originally developed as an intern project by Oakland University ATiB students, used to provide reporting data on users, computers, printers and computers in large scale environments.After a great deal of
Ike Eickholdt and Joe Cottone (Jr.) started the project on a shoe string budget with a series of desktop computers running Windows Server OS.
The project was not initially well received by the parent company as other groups stated that they already had all the data they needed.
Fortunately for the parent company Joe and Ike continued to develop the system.
When Y2K was nearing exectutives and leaders went to the data source owners and asked for supporting data, across the enterprise, so that they could analyze the extent of the issues pertaining to Y2K. As it turned out, and it was no surprise to Joe and Ike, the data source ownders did not have all the data but rather just their little silos of data. It was at this point that ECICS took hold and became a U.S. wide system for reporting on most aspects of the overall environment which equated to approximately 65,000 networked systems and more Configuration Management data than most would ever need.
Next the parent company signed a five year system inventory contract with one of their major clients. Again, ECICS was down played and the data source owners stated they had the systems in place to support the contract. It was not long before leaders came to Joe and Ike and asked of ECICS could be modified to support the North American contract. Joe and Ike began down the road of modifying ECICS and ECICS became eInventory.
The eInventory system ultimately merged with other systems which supported Contracts, Billing, Transaction Management, Asset and Configuration Mnagement, Service Request Management and the like.
There have been multiple multi-million dollar attempts to replace what originally started out as ECICS however, since the tools sets were created to directly meet the requirements of the parent company and the client, all attempts to date fall short and ultimately waste a great deal of time and money.
I look forward to Joe's comments on this page.
