Interoperability: the great unifier We found that companies with this kind of agility–the ability to change how they work at the drop of a hat–have one thing in common: high interoperability, or the ability to make enterprise applications work in conjunction with each other. Why? Because interoperability integrates critical business applications, turning tangled inputs into a single source of data truth. This leaves organizations better equipped to pivot quickly and take advantage of new opportunities. And with that agility comes growth. We found that companies with high interoperability in Europe grew revenue 5X faster than their peers with low interoperability (Figure 2)and are set to unlock an additional four percentage points in annual revenue growth. It comes as no surprise, then, that winning companies keep interoperability top of mind for the entire C-suite—not just the CTO or CIO. Value untangled 8

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