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#  What’s the Cost of Disconnected Tools to Your Business?

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Top companies are finding greater success moving away from a disconnected, best-of-breed software approach and adopting an integrated platform digital transformation strategy.

This Tech Clarity research report, based on a survey of 187 IT, product development, and manufacturing professionals, **reveals best practices for overcoming the cost of disconnected tools** by integrating your teams on a single platform.

**Key takeaways you’ll discover include:**

- 99 percent of those using an integrated platform report advantages over other approaches
- Lack of integration across best-of-breed tools creates bottlenecks and breaks the digital thread
- Integrated software minimizes manual efforts and non-value-added work, while increasing efficiency
- A platform approach increases data reuse across the product lifecycle, eliminates data silos, and automates processes and workflows
- Cloud-based, integrated platforms with dedicated security capabilities are better suited to protect IP while facilitating collaboration

**READ THE EBOOK** to learn how an integrated, platform approach to product development empowers engineering and manufacturing teams while supporting a digital transformation strategy.