Today’s business and technology landscape can make reaching high interoperability a challenge precisely because it can become a tangle very quickly. Most large enterprises have more than 500 applications, and eight out of 10 say they plan to buy more from multiple vendors in the next two years. At the same time, 66% say that the number of applications and their associated technical complexities are a barrier to reaching interoperability. The longer these organizations wait to make themselves interoperable, the more difficult it becomes to retrofit interoperability on an ever-growing application stack.