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instant implementation: swipe the corporate card, onboard the users and solve the business problem. But experienced CIOs know that plug-and-play is rarely that simple in an enterprise environment.
It is not all win-win, though. Buying software today has the tendency to build a different kind of debt: integration debt. As organisations stack dozens, sometimes hundreds, of disparate SaaS tools, data has a habit of becoming siloed and workflows appear fragmented.
Organisations spend up to

80 %

of effort and budget integrating disparate apps and data, leaving just 20 % for value creation
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