8 Reasons Why Businesses Opt for Integrated Solutions

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With today’s economic and competitive pressures, now more than ever, IT and procurement teams are tasked to drive more across their organizations – from more productivity to more cost savings (but never more budget ). These key stakeholders need to find solutions for expansive and complex business needs in a marketplace where solutions are rarely one-size-fits-all. Tailoring solutions to overcome these major challenges often requires turning to a wide array of products that must be connected or integrated to deliver a holistic business solution. This begs the question: Is the hassle of purchasing products individually worth the struggle of having to then integrate them?

Before you answer, let me walk you through the landscape of point products and integrated solutions to help you make an informed decision.

What is a Point Product?

A point product is universal term for a single product that solves a single problem. While it perfectly caters to its value proposition, it cannot serve multiple purposes and may struggle to pair with other point solutions.

What is an Integrated Solution?

An integrated solution — or platform — is a series of products, features and/or services, pre-configured and optimized to enable seamless interconnection, communication, and workflows across data, people, and processes.

The Benefits of an Integrated Solution

For some organizations, a small suite of point-solutions is enough to meet their basic need. But most organizations looking to streamline business processes, operations, costs, and profitability need to invest in integrated, pre-configured, optimized, and scalable solutions for the following 8 Reasons:

1. Time to Value 
   A single, end-to-end, pre-configured system or platform helps you bypass lengthy scoping, set up, testing, and training processes.
2. Single User Interface 
   Having only one user interface to learn and manage means your business reduces operational deadweight by eliminating multi-vendor interfaces.
3. Process Automation 
   Because it’s difficult to monitor and control processes, point product implementation lends itself to increased processing time and risk of failure due to manual data exchange.  With pre-configured, integrated solutions, data processing is unified and consistent through automated workflows.
4. Data Accessibility & Ease of Sharing 
   Pre-configured data integrations and process automations provide quicker and faster access to relevant business data and makes cross-organization and multi-site sharing easy.
5. Complete & Accurate Reporting 
   Integrated solutions use one single source database for information which dramatically eases data collection and maintenance. This ensures consistency and quality which ultimately supports better reporting and more extensive analysis.
6. Lower Total Cost of Ownership 
   With point products, you pay the hard and soft costs of onboarding multiple times, including – but not limited to – initial set up, implementation, and support.  With an integrated solution, you pay a one-time cost, which, due to pre-configuration, often is lower than buying and implementing the point systems individually.
7. Ease of Management 
   Each point product has its own set of contracts, pay schedules, IT requirements, and support processes, all which require significant time, resources, and cost to manage.  With fewer vendors and vendor requirements, organizations with integrated solutions reduce their risks and save significantly in time and resources.
8. Flexible and Scalable 
   An integrated platform also allows the system to grow with the organization by way of meeting the current requirements of the business, while also offering scalable and flexible add-ons to the existing system for the future needs of the organization.

Integrate Now. Optimize Tomorrow.

Point solutions still maintain an important place in many technology solution ecosystems. However, the comprehensive, tested, and agile infrastructure delivered within a pre-configured, integrated solution enables quicker time to market, exponential ROI, and future readiness. Integrated solutions empower a business to stay agile, empower growth, and keep ahead of the competition without getting lost in the burdens of point solution integration and management.

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Keir Hoppe currently sits as Chief Marketing Officer for BriefCam, a video analytics and intelligence platform company. With over 20 years of experience in high tech, she has worked at every level of the technology industry from on-premise solutions, to cloud to SaaS and everything in between. Over the last 6 years, she has dedicated herself and her career to AI and ML driven software intelligence for the betterment of people, organizations, industries, and society.