Every system in your operation was chosen for a good reason, one at a time. Now none of them agree. Two departments report two occupancy rates for the same building, and someone reconciles them by hand before the board sees either.
Connecting anything new is quoted in months and tens of thousands, so the business has stopped asking. The spreadsheet between two systems has quietly become a person's job.
And a core platform is about to be chosen on the strength of demos by people who will not be there when the integration bill arrives.