By standardizing and reducing the complexity of service infrastructure, organizations facilitate more effective service management processes, tools, and automated system administration. 

• Centralized management. Because consolidation facilitates centralized management, it becomes easier to implement standard policies across your systems.
• Simplified contingency planning solutions. A simpler service infrastructure means that more services can be restored when a site failure occurs. 
• Improved quality of service (QoS). Consolidation improves up-time and can deliver better performing systems.
• Better integration. Using a single platform makes for better systems integration, which improves data consistency and reduces the complexity of tasks such as extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations.