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15 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Good piece by @TonyByrne at the @realstorygroup on the challenges Acquia faces turning a suite of acquired products into a coherent platform. It's a problem many vendors have, but it's relevant RE their @Widen acquisition.
realstorygroup.com/Blog/what-make…
Quite a bit of the complexity we end up helping *our* clients navigate, regardless of vendor, boils down to "making sense of a complex multi-product integration…"
The divides between products, even from one vendor, are about underlying mental and architectural models, assumed workflows, etc, not just consistent branding and "they all have the same SSO now," so acquisitions take a lot of time and work to really integrate.
(oof — also just realized that I misattributed the article! It was written by @apoorv, I just came across it via Tony's feed. Sorry for the mixup!)

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