Digibee survey reveals obstacles to enterprise integration

Digibee's survey of more than 1,000 IT professionals reveals obstacles and challenges companies face on the path to enterprise integration.

PUBLISHED
November 3, 2022

Budget is the most cited obstacle, with 36% of technology professionals saying cost concerns negatively impact enterprise integration plans.

WESTON, Florida — November 3, 2022 — Digibee, an enterprise integration platform as a service (eiPaaS) company that helps organizations build flexible and highly scalable integration architecture, today released survey results focused on barriers to enterprise integration. The findings are from a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. CIOs, developers, and enterprise architects conducted April 27-May 5, 2022. The survey focused on the state of enterprise integration and the results are available at Digibee Enterprise Status Integration Report 2022.

The survey revealed that business leaders face many challenges on the path to enterprise integration. The biggest concern is budget (36%), Followed by security concerns (31%), complexity and time (28%), lack of skills (27%)and difficulty of integration legacy systems (27%).

The survey also indicates that cost overruns for integration projects are common. Based on responses from business leaders who have already implemented an enterprise integration strategy, there are three aspects of a project that are most likely to impact budget and spending:

  • Competing priorities: The majority of eiPaaS use cases were ranked almost uniformly as priorities: B2B integrations (36%); data integrations (35%); systems integrations (32%); application integrations (31%); and API management (28%). While this result reflects the broad application of eiPaaS technology, a lack of clarity in prioritizing work can complicate the integration strategy, resulting in false starts and costly overlaps.
  • System downtime: Some eiPaaS platforms are configured to minimize downtime, but many are not. Ninety-six percent of respondents reported experiencing downtime during an eiPaaS implementation, 48% indicated that the downtime was longer than anticipated, and 9% stated that the downtime was significant and impactful to the business.
  • Resources: While 88% of respondents plan to use only in-house resources or in-house resources with support to manage their integration projects, without a low-code eiPaaS platform, specialized teams must spend significant time performing repetitive, low-value work. With less bandwidth, project timelines often extend and costs increase.

“Successful and cost-effective integrations are achievable, but we were not surprised that so many respondents assumed integration was an expensive endeavor, citing budget, security, time and resources as the top challenges,” said Rodrigo Bernardinelli, CEO and co-founder of Digibee. “With the right tools, you can easily leverage internal resources and other efficiencies to complete your project in record time and on budget. Implement an eiPaaS platform that leverages your development resources; rather than centralizing and outsourcing these skills, empower your team with new features and capabilities. The adoption curve between vendor selection and delivering a solution to production should be days or weeks, rather than months. Rather than stifling your team, the right eiPaaS will empower them.”

For more information, download the “Digibee Enterprise Status Integration Report 2022,” read the blog “Why Corporate Onboarding Journeys Are Failing,” or watch the webinar on demand “Examining the 2022 State of the Enterprise Integration Report. "

About Digibee

The Digibee integration platform enables companies to compete and excel in today’s rapidly changing digital environment. The technology is cloud-native, low-code, fully recyclable and discoverable – connecting applications, processes and people for faster time to market without major investments. Ten times faster than other systems, Digibee is the preferred enterprise iPaaS solution for over 250 enterprise customers, including Accenture, B3, Carrefour, Payless, Santander and others. Founded in São Paulo, Brazil, the Digibee team is based throughout the Americas with offices in Florida. For more information or to schedule a demo, visit www.digibee.com or connect with us on social media.

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Rodrigo cofounded Digibee based on the principles of simplicity, agility and strong human connections — with the goal of freeing less technically savvy customers from their reliance on developers for more rapid, cost-effective digital transformations. After receiving a Bachelor in Computer Science and an MBA, Rodrigo went on to senior roles at CA Technologies and Zup Innovation.

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