Stop Measuring Cloud Maturity by Tool Count — Start Measuring Truth
Stop Measuring Cloud Maturity by Tool Count — Start Measuring Truth Why “More Tools” Doesn’t Mean “More Control” Every enterprise wants to show progress. Five-tier models, benchmark charts, and slides with Level 5: Optimized make it look like maturity is within reach. But reality paints a different picture. Because in most organizations, maturity has become synonymous with quantity — of tools, dashboards, and integrations. The logic is seductive: more visibility equals better control. Yet, what teams actually get is fragmented truth . The Trap of Layered Complexity It starts small — a budget tool here, a compliance tracker there. Then comes a drift detector, a cost analyzer, and another dashboard for risk. Each is useful. None talk to each other. Finance sees cost data. Ops sees uptime. Security sees policy gaps. All technically correct — all contextually disconnected. That’s when maturity becomes a mirage : everything looks connected, but nothing agrees. Disc...