Vendors will need to assess these developments by integrating such functions to their offering or opening up their applications to interoperability with best-of-breed products in these areas.

расширенный контекст (для настоящих меломанов :-))):

Homogenization of the market continues, with vendors that dominate the large enterprise market moving into the mid-market and targeting lucrative industries (e.g., banking, utilities) with specific products. In order to successfully penetrate the mid-market, vendors moving down-market must pay special attention to developing their channel networks.

Local vendors will have to develop products that facilitate the sharing of data and information maintained by the EAS application systems of customers and suppliers.

Vendors will need to assess these developments by integrating such functions to their offering or opening up their applications to interoperability with best-of-breed products in these areas.

Чето у меня не выходит с opening up their applications to interoperability. Это типа поставщики ПО должны обеспечить возможность взаимодействия? или что?