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The hidden costs of the best-of-breed model are called the integration tax, including inconsistent data models and non-unified API semantics; enterprises must invest substantial engineering resources to maintain glue code and ETL pipelines, and this portion of cost accounts for a considerable share of the three-to-five-year TCO.
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