{"id":25349,"date":"2022-11-25T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/?p=25349"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:03:42","slug":"the-app-overload-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/the-app-overload-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018App Overload\u2019 Problem and How To Get Round It"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many different tools does your business use for communication and collaboration? Over five? Over ten? Research from OpenText shows that 40% of UK workers use four or more apps every day, while 13% use over ten.<\/p>\n

\u2018App overload\u2019 causes headaches for IT teams and end users, including lost productivity and increased system maintenance. But it doesn\u2019t have to be this way. Switching to a unified communications as a service<\/a> (UCaaS) platform that integrates with business apps, can solve these issues, and bring other benefits too.<\/p>\n

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How did we get here?<\/b><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s easy to see how it happens. Businesses usually adopt tools at different times for different reasons. Take communications; decades ago, companies probably set up a landline phone and fax system and then later added email and calendars. In the last few years, they wanted to modernise so likely added video conferencing or instant messaging tools. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just communication tools either. As cloud-based apps became popular, your business might have added enterprise apps like Microsoft 365, Salesforce and Google Workspace. Before you know it, you\u2019ve got a whole host of business apps on the go.<\/p>\n

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Disconnected apps = less productive teams<\/b><\/h2>\n

The problem is that these tools are usually disconnected because businesses don’t have an automated solution for sending data between one system and another. This negatively impacts employees in several ways:<\/p>\n