Fact: every platform promises simplification, yet somehow each new one adds another layer. Over time, the IT landscape turns into a maze of overlapping tools, redundant functions, and partial integrations. Been there? What started as progress becomes an ecosystem that no one fully understands or owns. Welcome to IT.
Of course, the problem is not just financial, it’s structural. When too many platforms coexist, architecture fragments, data flows lose clarity, and governance weakens. Building bridges between bridges becomes “the way,” while vendor contracts pile up faster than they can be reviewed. At some point, the question is no longer which platform works best, but how many are too many.
So how do you decide what stays, what goes, and what consolidates? How do you manage dependencies and politics when rationalisation touches everyone’s tools? And how do you rebuild trust in enterprise architecture after years of patchwork decisions? Let’s bring coherence back to the technology stack. Is it possible to reduce cost without killing innovation and make consolidation a shared goal instead of a forced clean-up? A closed conversation on taming complexity before it starts managing you.
