Companies with Highly Interoperable Technology Achieve Six Times Higher Revenue Growth, According to New Accenture Research - Seite 2

Leading companies with high interoperability achieve profitable growth by allocating just 2-4% more of their IT and functional budgets to applications, while handling as many, if not more, diverse applications within their IT stack. Most enterprises now have more than 500 applications, with eight out of ten (82%) saying they will continue to expand their application footprint, making an interoperable approach even more important. At the same time, 66% say that the number of applications and their associated technical complexities are a barrier to reaching interoperability. Those that are successful make high interoperability central to their overall business and technology strategy.

The report recommends three actions for companies aspiring to improve interoperability:

Leverage the cloud – A fundamental interoperability enabler, cloud is now ubiquitous. Companies that successfully improve their interoperability start by moving existing applications to the cloud and investing in new, cloud-based enterprise applications. But more importantly, they use the cloud to connect data and experiences across applications, creating one version of truth for the enterprise. Our research found that nearly 72% of companies with high/medium interoperability adopted public cloud and have already migrated 30% of their data and workloads. Only 60% of low/no interoperability companies have adopted public cloud, a 12% lag.

Utilize composable tech – Using proven, repeatable solutions that can be configured and reconfigured at speed to address changing business needs, known as composable technology, builds flexibility into the heart of organizations. This allows enterprises to cope with the effects of disruption through faster, better and cheaper transformation. It requires shifting from a technology architecture of static, standalone parts to one of composable pieces. By using prebuilt, interoperable solutions to swap and plug-and-play smaller application components, new solutions can be created without wider disruption.

Focus on meaningful collaboration – Interoperable applications are only one part of the equation. Interoperability can enable meaningful collaboration by allowing functions and people to work together seamlessly toward a common goal. They can use real-time data, analytics and AI, together with new ways of working, to unlock the value of technology, empower people and achieve better outcomes. This collaborative culture comes from the top: more than one fourth (27%) of executives consider lack of collaboration across business functions as a top challenge caused by low/no interoperability. Leadership can amplify collaboration by drawing up broad use cases for new interoperable applications and challenging employees across functions to solve them as a team.