City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

Reality: SAP consultants bought them nicer things

SAP doesn't have customers they have hostages

You can also replace SAP with any other enterprise vendor in that sentence

Maybe the VC owned ones.

"ERP Enlightenment" conjures images of corporate millenarianism and beige-toned transcendence, as if the arbiter of judgement were arcane B2B systems, the truth of which is held by a select few consultant-priests.

Maybe closer to the truth than many would like to think.

from oracle to sap, its like jumping from pool of feces to pool of vomit.

It is going to 4 times over budget and take 6 times longer to implement - don't believe anything the consultants predict.

We were promised the same thing when we replaced our in house ERP system - the consultants NEVER left , they just cycled in and out from the same firm and the total cost were about a billion in our local currency.

One of local retailers SPAR just implemented EWM - Warehouse Management - stores could not order goods from the DC of the KZN region because of it , they had to order from outside the region at greater cost.

It tanked their results for the financial year.

They'll learn the meaning of "World Of Hurt"