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Nearly all cloud ERP projects will 'fail' by 2018, reckons Gartner

Matt Bryant Silver badge
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"....Money for the bleeding obvious" A lot of advising work is stating the bleeding obvious because it needs to be stated. All too often the obvious is overlooked or assumed not to be an issue, creating expensive pitfalls such as not asking about how you will integrate applications with your cloud-based ERP.

Recent case of this was a company that had a perceived privacy issue and wanted to restrict access to customer data to only those employees whose role meant they had completed a privacy training course (30 mins) and signed a disclaimer. The projected costs of implementing such controls with identity management, changes to databases, rewritten processes, etc., was breaching seven figures and looking like a twelve-month implementation if all went well. At which point a consultant pointed out it would be much, much cheaper, simpler and quicker just to make it mandatory for all employees to do the privacy course and sign the disclaimer.....

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