Each guide opens with the decision rule, then the evidence. Where the honest answer is 'it depends', we say on what - and where one option is usually right, we say that too, even when it's not the one we sell.
CDP VS DATA CATALOG
Catalog first if the pain is trust/findability; CDP first only if the pain is specifically a fragmented customer view.
BUILD VS BUY - AI AGENT PLATFORM
Buy the governance plane; build the agents that encode your edge.
REWRITE VS STRANGLER-FIG
Strangle by default; full rewrites only for genuinely end-of-life runtimes with small, well-specified scope.
KUBERNETES VS SIMPLER PLATFORMS
K8s pays at fleet scale and multi-team topology; below that, managed containers/serverless win on ops burden.
RPA VS API INTEGRATION
RPA is a bridge for API-less systems with an explicit replacement plan - never the destination architecture.
OFF-THE-SHELF ERP VS CUSTOM BUILD
Product core for commodity processes, custom modules where you actually differentiate - hybrids win.