All-in-one suite vs best-of-breed stack: the switching cost is the moat.

All-in-one suite vs best-of-breed stack: the switching cost is the moat.

HEARD: the suite-vs-stack pendulum is swinging back toward all-in-one, and it's not about features. It's lock-in fatigue. A best-of-breed stack means every tool's data lives in a different silo with its own glue to maintain. A suite trades some per-tool quality for one data model.

The tradeoff buyers weigh:
— Small team, want one throat to choke: suite, accept the weaker modules.
— Specialized needs and engineers to integrate: best-of-breed, own the glue.

The hidden tax is the integration layer nobody budgets for. Count the connectors. Watch this.