“Best-of-breed” is the default advice: pick the best vendor for each need. For the largest enterprises with big internal teams to integrate them, it can work. For everyone else, the seams cost more than the specialists save.
Every vendor boundary is a place where accountability, data, and dollars leak. The firewall vendor blames the network vendor; the network vendor blames the ISP. Meanwhile you’re the systems integrator you never meant to become — coordinating a dozen roadmaps, contracts, and support queues.
One partner across security, IT, and facilities means one roadmap, one point of contact, and one entity that owns the outcome end to end. The disciplines are designed to work together — your cameras and your firewall live in the same plan, your POS sits on a network the same team secures.
If you have a mature internal team whose job is integration, and a need so specialized no generalist can meet it, best-of-breed is right. Be honest about whether that describes you — or whether you’re paying enterprise complexity on a mid-market budget.
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