AI consolidation: Why platforms will win and portfolios will break

Enterprises are struggling to achieve AI ROI because fragmented, "bolted-together" data infrastructures create significant scaling and integration hurdles. The article argues that moving toward unified platforms, such as Elastic, is essential to consolidate search, observability, and security into a single, efficient architecture. This shift allows businesses and partners to bypass the complexities of manual integration and focus instead on delivering high-value business transformation.