Bringing Clarity to Your 2026 Budget: Why It's Time to Consolidate Your Tools

Is your funding causing chaos?

As you finalize your 2026 budget, the tools you support will determine how your organization operates next year. Many teams are caught up in tool chaos: data spread across disconnected platforms, duplicated efforts, and slow decision-making. The cost isn’t just the license fees—it’s the friction, delays, and data trapped in silos.

Consolidate for clarity, control, and AI readiness

Consolidation isn't just about savings. It creates a secure, cohesive ecosystem that fosters collaboration and sets you up for practical AI.

Break down silos so AI can see the whole picture. AI systems are only as effective as the data they can access. Fragmented information leads to partial or biased insights. By consolidating, you create a trusted data layer spanning sales, marketing, finance, and customer operations.

Work where the work happens. Platforms like Asana (for work management) and Miro (for collaboration/whiteboarding) act as central hubs that integrate into your system—allowing updates, decisions, and AI actions to flow automatically rather than being manually transferred between tools. Asana works with 200+ apps, and Miro’s marketplace offers 250+ apps, integrations, and AI tools, providing extensive options without overwhelming complexity.

Ensure consistency and build trust. Clear, consistent processes minimize risk and ensure compliance. Standardizing your collaboration and work-management layers simplifies governance (permissions, audit trails, retention) while keeping your brand and messaging consistent.

Measurable outcomes from consolidation

• Reduced friction: Eliminate manual workarounds and duplicate efforts across systems.

• Improved efficiency: Automate approvals, transitions, and updates in a seamless flow (Asana’s 2025 updates introduce pre-built AI workflows and templates to accelerate this).

• Better decisions: Leaders gain real-time visibility to identify risks, allocate resources, and make informed decisions—without piecing together reports.

Why choose Asana + Miro as your “work + collaboration” core

• Asana: Connects goals to work, offers portfolios, automation, and rich integrations for a unified source of truth; expanding AI workflows promote best practices at scale.

• Miro: Provides a shared canvas for brainstorming, planning, and reviews; an expanding marketplace to incorporate systems like Microsoft 365, Atlassian, Google, Adobe, Glean, and more.

Structure your 2026 technology investment

Don't let complexity derail your strategy. Generation Digital helps you map your current setup, identify redundancies, and design an interoperable architecture that's secure, compliant, and AI-ready.

What we deliver

1. Tooling audit & heatmap: Analysis of usage, duplication, risk, and cost

2. Integration blueprint: Target architecture, data flows, and governance plans

3. Execution plan: Phased consolidation, change management, and key performance indicators

4. Proof of value: A 6–8 week pilot demonstrating measurable improvements

👉 Schedule a strategic audit to ensure your 2026 budget maximizes value.

FAQs

1) How many integrations do Asana and Miro offer?
Asana provides 200+ apps through its integration hub. Miro’s marketplace features 250+ apps, integrations, and AI tools for collaboration and planning.

2) Will consolidation negatively impact specialized teams?
No—maintain specialized tools where they offer clear benefits, but incorporate them into a standardized work layer so data and updates flow seamlessly.

3) How does consolidation benefit AI?
AI requires comprehensive, governed data. Unifying core work and collaboration reduces blind spots and enables reliable, understandable insights.

4) What’s a sensible first step for 2026?
Conduct a targeted pilot (focused on one department or program) with clear success metrics—such as using fewer tools, faster cycle times, and higher on-time delivery rates.

5) How do we assess success?
Define key performance indicators such as % workflows automated, reduction in meeting times, elimination of duplicate tools, cost per user, and speed of decision-making.