The State of System Integration 2025

The State of System Integration 2025 provides an evidence-based snapshot of how integration is currently understood, delivered, and valued across the infrastructure sector — and what must change to improve future outcomes.

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Insights

Data-driven findings from infrastructure professionals

Interviews

Perspectives from industry leaders helping to shape the future of system integration.

Opportunities

Actionable recommendations and takeaways for improving project outcomes through better integration.

Why investigate the state of system integration?

System integration is a specialised discipline that connects, people, processes, and technology to ensure complex infrastructure functions as a single, coordinated system. Yet despite its critical role, integration is often inconsistently applied, leading to delays, cost blowouts and safety and performance failures.

We’re on a mission to get to the bottom of these issues so we can help our clients better manage complexity so that they can bring more projects to life, ensuring they perform as intended across their lifetime.

In conversation with Industry leaders

Hear directly from the experts as they share their experiences, challenges, and ideas for shaping the future of system integration.

Improving system integration is a multi-billion dollar opportunity – purely by saving on the money we’re not wasting.
Rob Scarbro – SYSTRA

By taking a more holistic and agile approach to connecting people, process and technology, System Integration can help us better navigate the unknown unknowns
Stephen lemon – National Transport Commission

Embedding Integration into project culture is key to undertaking more complex infrastructure projects at scale.
Bruno Chiumino – Seymour Whyte

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5 Key Insights Reveal a Service Primed for adoption

Through a combination of industry-wide survey responses and in-depth interviews, we developed insights that will help readers understand the current – and often fractured – state of system integration across complex infrastructure projects.

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Complete with Recommendations

Moving from insights to impact demands more than isolated action. . It calls for shared commitment, clearer definitions, and stronger collaboration across the industry.

By working together — across sectors, teams and project phases — we can shift from fragmented efforts to coordinated outcomes. The path forward for system integration is clear: define it, invest in it, and embed it early. The reward? Better project outcomes, less risk, and infrastructure that delivers on its intended purpose.

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Managing complexity is the key to better infrastructure outcomes

According to the State of System Integration 2025, complexity and risk are what keep infrastructure leaders up at night. But most projects still bring in integration too late, or confuse it with generic engineering.

At SYSTRA, we deliver integration as a specialist discipline — aligning people, processes and technology across the project lifecycle. Whether it’s managing technical interfaces, enabling interoperability or reducing delivery risk, we ensure your project functions as a single, unified system.

Explore how our integration expertise helps simplify delivery and unlock better outcomes.

Learn more about our System Integration offer