systems integration

Paperboard containers added $1.99 billion of year-to-date shipments while the whole paper products sector added $1.85 billion. One subsector accounts for more than all the growth, and it is the one where every dollar arrives with a specification.

The number of insured institutions fell from 4,839 at the end of 2021 to 4,238 by mid-2026, and 36 were absorbed by merger in a single quarter. Consolidation is a banking trend that arrives as a systems workload.

Thirty percent of accounting professionals name manual data cleanup as the top barrier to advisory work, ahead of staffing. The average firm runs ten applications and loses five hours a week to re-entry.

Billable utilization fell to 66.4% in 2025, a 19-year low, in a year revenue and margins recovered. The gap between high performers and the rest is not software ownership. It is system integration.