I used to work for a BigCorp multinational manufacturing firm, lets call it International Widget. 20 years ago, they were a ManMan house, and the powers that be decided on Oracle ERP after much KT analysis. The first deployment of Oracle ERP involved extensive customizations to match the corporate business process model, took at least two years longer than planned, and was really clunky and hard to use. They skipped a major release or two due to the difficulties of integrating all the customizations, and when they couldn't put it off much longer, the next major release, they reworked the company business processes to match the Oracle ERP models, and it went MUCH easier and worked MUCH better.
anon because well, yeah.
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