Staying competitive in the new digital economy requires agility. You have to quickly address new challenges, predict future roadblocks, and capitalize on time-sensitive opportunities. However, in their quest for speed, many organizations have amassed thousands of applications without any coordinated planning. As a result, many find themselves relying on an unorganized array of applications with overlapping functionality, varying lifecycles, and different supporting technologies, leading to major integration issues and company-wide inefficiencies. Not only are such IT landscapes chaotic and complex, but they are expensive to maintain. What’s worse, this unmanageable complexity makes the organization slower and less agile, defeating the original purpose of these technology investments.

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