Paving the Way for Integrated Ecosystem Solutions for Industrial Operations

This IDC Perspective lays out a model for technology vendor ecosystem solution development and buyer adoption. For years, technology providers have shifted their marketing message from offering technologies to offering solutions. This has gone hand in hand with the transition to modular, platform-based architectures. However, the dirty secret is that technology buyers often require integration across multiple providers, technologies, data, and their own business processes to arrive at a true solution."We hear constantly from tech buyers that they want to buy solutions, yet they are mired in technical debt navigating the myriad of integrations necessary to support business use cases," says Jonathan Lang, research director, Worldwide IT/OT Convergence Strategies at IDC. "The truth is that until vendors start working together to embed and pre-integrate functionality across the landscape, the technology capabilities will continue to be far ahead of organizations' abilities to effectively deploy and leverage them."