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The True Cost of Data Silos

Discover how disconnected systems drain productivity, revenue, and competitive advantage.

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The True Cost of
Data Silos

Why disconnected systems are silently killing your productivity

The Productivity Tax

30%
of work time spent searching for information
£750K
annual cost for a 50-person team

Where Time Goes in Siloed Organisations

Searching for information30%
Duplicating work25%
Waiting for approvals18%
Manual data entry15%
Actual productive work12%

The SaaS Sprawl

137
Average SaaS apps per mid-market company
45
Integrations needed to connect 10 systems
$12.9M
Average annual cost of poor data quality
67%
Employees frustratedby data access
42%
Decisions delayeddue to missing data
89%
Businesses with silosreport inefficiency

Before vs After Unification

Siloed
4-6 hours
Customer complaint escalation
Unified
15 minutes
With intelligence layer
Siloed
3-5 days
Monthly reporting cycle
Unified
Real-time
With intelligence layer
Siloed
2-3 weeks
New hire onboarding
Unified
2-3 days
With intelligence layer
Siloed
1-2 days
Quote generation
Unified
10 minutes
With intelligence layer

Warning Signs You Have Data Silos

01

"Let me check with..."

Simple questions require a chain of consultations

02

The Monthly Spreadsheet Dance

Days spent compiling reports from multiple sources

03

Same Question, Different Answers

Departments give conflicting information

04

"We'll update the CRM later"

Deferred data entry because tools don't talk

The Growing Problem

Average SaaS Apps Per Company (2020-2026)

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The average mid-market company uses 137 different SaaS applications. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle, but nobody sees the full picture.

McKinsey Digital
2025 Enterprise Technology Report
The Solution

Connect everything with an
Intelligence Layer

Stop building point-to-point integrations. Create a unified data model that understands your entire business.

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Sources

  • IDC Knowledge Worker Study 2025
  • McKinsey Digital Report 2025
  • Gartner Data Quality Research 2024

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