As a consultant I was engaged to develop a business continuity application that tied the hospitals physical hardware, its associated applications, their associated departments, and technical personnel together.  The importance of this project was to bring together the business requirements and business functionality of the hospitals 64 disparate computing systems.  In this way, when the hospital went through an IT infrastructure retooling or a request was made to add another application, then the Business Continuity database could be accessed to determine if there was a solution already in place.  Other functionalities of this database allowed for the reduction of duplicated work between departments and ensured the accurate deployment of technical expertise to resolve system problems.