Five subscriptions doing four jobs is a common place to end up. Consolidating onto one platform can pay for itself — but only when the numbers and the disruption both stack up.

Count the joins, not the licences

The real cost of bolt-on tools is usually the manual work between them: re-keyed data, reconciliations, and reports nobody fully trusts.

When staying put is the right call

If a specialist tool is genuinely better at the job and integrates cleanly, keep it. Consolidation is a means to fewer handoffs, not an end in itself.