#tool-sprawl

#tool-sprawl

Excessive workplace tools create friction, slow workflows, scatter information, and waste employee time through constant platform switching.

Organizations must consolidate cybersecurity platforms to survive AI-driven, adaptive attacks that operate in real time; fragmented tool stacks cannot respond fast enough.

AI is increasingly used across software development—especially coding—but testing, deployment and governance remain immature, creating tool sprawl and governance risks that require consolidation and guardrails.

UK and Irish organizations face frequent, costly IT outages with median annual losses of $38 million while engineers spend 25% of time firefighting.

Software teams now shoulder the entire software supply chain, facing unsustainable complexity, security and compliance burdens, and tool sprawl that increase cognitive load and risk.

Application switching negatively impacts employee productivity, consuming nearly four hours weekly.