AI sparks platform consolidation push - Channel Dive
PushButton AI Team ·
AI sparks platform consolidation push - Channel Dive
You didn't buy the wrong AI tool.
You bought too many tools that don't talk to each other.
New research confirms what I see constantly: businesses running 10–15 separate software platforms face wha
You didn't buy the wrong AI tool.
You bought too many tools that don't talk to each other.
New research confirms what I see constantly: businesses running 10–15 separate software platforms face what analysts are calling an "integration tax." Every new tool you add makes the next one harder to use.
This is why that AI feature you paid for sits dormant. It's not you. It's not your team. The platform it lives on can't connect to where your actual work happens.
The AI hype machine won't tell you this — because consolidation is less exciting than the next shiny tool. But your AI strategy lives or dies on your existing software stack talking to itself cleanly.
Here's the one thing worth doing this week: List every software platform your team logs into daily. If it's more than five, you don't have an AI problem yet. You have a foundation problem first.
Fix the foundation, and your first AI win becomes obvious — and cheap.
How many platforms is your team currently juggling, and has any vendor ever helped you connect them — or just sold you another one to add to the pile?
