Infographics Why are IT system integration costs so high

Infographics: Why Are IT System Integration Costs So High?

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Businesses around the world spend trillions of dollars on IT each year and most of these expenses are system integration costs.

Our research found that many companies are still wasting money on custom software development, while others spend hundreds of billions for ineffective integration.

Distribution of spending in IT
On average, businesses use more than 22 software applications

On average, small businesses use 22 software applications for all kinds of purposes. This number goes up to 788 for large enterprises with more than 50,000 employees.

To work properly, these should be integrated, and that is one of the biggest challenges for IT departments.

THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE

When dealing with IT systems integration, you have to deal with multiple applications running on multiple platforms, and that makes any “simple IT integration project” not simple at all.

INTEGRATION IS STRATEGIC

By 2024, 65% of organizations will consider spending on integration capabilities as strategic investments.

In 2019, this represented 40%, so there is a growing number of organizations that consider integration as strategic.

Integration is strategic

#1 PROBLEM
CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT COSTS

To reduce software costs, many companies decide to limit their choices to off-the-shelf applications. Nonetheless, they soon discover end-users need system integration between many (if not all!) of those applications. Should you do that integration with custom coding?

IT SYSTEM INTEGRATION USING CUSTOM CODING

Hire or train a new team, code everything from scratch

Time-consuming

Hire or train a new team, code everything from scratch

Deep drilling into infrastructure, average developer salary - $92k

Costly

Deep drilling into infrastructure, average developer salary - $92k

Outcome not certain, hard to calculate real costs

Risky

Outcome not certain, hard to calculate real costs

Several programming languages needed, possible damage to sensitive data

Complex

Connection through several different API needed

INTEGRATION
USING MIDDLEWARE

Times when you had to do integration manually are over. The arrival of middleware platforms made the integration much faster, straightforward and cheaper. Connect Bridge is one of the top platforms on the market for making the integration as simple as possible.

ONE FLEXIBLE TOOL FOR ALL INTEGRATION NEEDS

Connect Bridge is one tool for all integration needs

WHY BUSINESSES USE
CONNECT BRIDGE

#1

Powerful and Easy

#2

Productivity Gains

#3

Integrate Everything

Connect Bridge is easy to learn

Easy to learn

Connect Bridge is easy to install

Easy to install

Connect Bridge is easy to use

Easy to use

200%

Minimal increase of productivity guaranteed


up to

10x

Increase of developer productivity


90%

less coding and bugs

Low

Cost

High

Flexibility

fast

Time to market

Low

Level of risk

High

Software compatibility

yes

to unique solutions

Connect Bridge is one of the simplest, yet flexible platforms on the market. It is suitable for businesses any size.

Contact us for more info or to book your quick online demo at
 office@connecting-software.com.

Ana Neto - Technical advisor, Author

Ana Neto
 technical advisor at Connecting Software

Author:

I have been a software engineer since 1997, with a more recent love for writing and public speaking.  Do you have any questions or comments about this post or about Connect Bridge? I would love to have your feedback!

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