It may seem like IT is the culprit of many problems, including data integration for the enterprise, but the issue may very well be something upper management brought on itself. Each year, IT is asked to do more with fewer resources such as hardware and software. People are also reduced every year because IT is seen as overhead in many organizations. So to balance things out, some applications are outsourced to another company. By outsourcing applications, more complexity is introduced into the IT group or any enterprise project.