Based on its survey results from “The State of Enterprise Integration for Manufacturing,” Digibee reported that 55% of manufacturing respondents considered their IT teams as the top internal stakeholder for technology integration, the highest among all industries in the survey. The top five challenges for manufacturing are security, legacy systems, inadequate resources, complexity and time, and lack of skills.
The report said that the top implementation model, among 46% of manufacturers surveyed, includes internal personnel working with the integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) technology vendor. On average, manufacturers are rebuilding up to 10 integrations for existing applications every 12 months; 54% reported 6 to 10 integrations rebuilt each year.
Improving security, analytics and automation are the top manufacturing integration objectives, according to the report, which it attributes to “the rapidly evolving IT landscape where companies are challenged to secure every-growing networks of connected devices that generate significant volumes of data.”
34% of manufacturers said improving security, reliability and governance were top integration objectives; 30% said improving/enhancing business analytics and decision-making; 29% said enabling automation and artificial intelligence.
Manufacturers reported that security was the top challenge for technology integration (33%), followed by legacy systems (32%) and inadequate resources (29%). The report said that legacy system environments are often complex and involve manual, time-consuming practices for teams that are already resource strapped.
The Digibee 2023 State of Enterprise Integration Report is based on responses from 1,000 participants in the United States, Canada, including chief information officers, chief technology officers, web developers and enterprise architects in companies with more than 500 employees, collected between February 7, 2023, and February 20, 2023, by Censuswide. Other than manufacturing, sub-industry reports include finance and retail.
