In general, businesses continue to struggle with using multiple apps for operating their business. This is evident from articles written on websites such as codeproject.com and cnet.com. Many programming challenges have been addressed by the cloud but have continued to plague companies and their programmers for over twenty years including:
In a recent ratscoworking study with business members and partners, over 65 percent of participants "deemed software tools as necessary". Those claiming software as not necessary to their operation stated "having a way of doing things" or "did not use computers much". As a whole, nearly every participant in our study of Startups felt "inadequate and unprepared" to receive the full benefits of software in their company.