Most platforms answer the question "where does it run?" with the word "cloud" and hope nobody asks a second one. Redstone answers it with a list — Windows, Linux x64, Linux ARM64, macOS, headless or console, on hardware from a data-centre rack down to a board that costs less than a monitor stand. Here is why that is an architectural decision rather than a feature, and what it changes for you.
The systems you choose today will serve a business that does not exist yet. Markets shift, regulations move, and the org chart you built the workflow around gets redrawn. Here is what executives should look for in a system that can be reshaped as the business changes — and why a productivity suite, however good, is not that system.
Most organisations do not have a data problem. They have an alignment problem — a CRM, an ERP, an HR system, a webstore, a POS, three delivery platforms and a BI dashboard that each hold a slightly different version of the truth. An integration platform is how you fix that without replacing any of them.