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ERPs are almost an extortion racket. Look at the force move to SAP/4 from SAP/3. It is costing companies megabucks and R/3 was perfectly fine, it is pretty much a full implementation. So the pain you had installing R/3 is even more fun and painful this time.

Companies were told move to R/4 (hanna) by 2030 or you lose support. I wonder if SAP has a kill switch in R/3 to disable it if the company does not move or pay the extra millions to support R/3 after 2030.

I doubt Oracle is much different either.

oh, thank goodness, a silver bullet

https://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1986_-_No_Silver_Bullet.p...

> Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.

Thinly disguised ad.

Exactly

This article could benefit so much from defining what an ERP is.

Enterprise Resource Planning. And any ERP admin would have seizures over the idea of just jacking in an AI to run wild in an ERP system.

Calling all this stuff "AI" is, in my opinion, the worst thing that has ever happened in the computer technology world. It's created this level of expectation in human minds that we're no where close to achieving.