Reply to post: Re: "they need to have a clear business case"

We surrender: SAP yields to customers, extends support for Business Suite 7 to 2027

Warm Braw

Re: "they need to have a clear business case"

I saw a SAP migration to the new version achieved in under a year

If that's the best that can be achieved then (a) I can understand the reluctance and (b) I'm amazed at how readily expectations can be lowered without it apparently being questioned.

Do any of these ERP systems actually bring business advantages that compensate for the high cost of installation, configuration and maintenance? The ones I have encountered were usually being fed garbage in by end users who, on penalty of sacking, were obliged to upload data into the system but could only upload data the system would accept, which would often be cost codes, contract numbers and so forth that were months or years out of date - and there was such a firewall between the users and the expensive consultants who did the actual configuration that there was no prospect of the system ever reflecting reality.

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