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While this is true to some degree, IBM/Oracle/SAP solutions are complex because the requirements are ridiculously complex. Could the requirements be streamlined? Probably, but that would require a wholesale restructuring of the way the company does business. Which, again, will probably happen, but usually not before the company ventures down the path of an ERP implementation and realizes how needlessly complex their business is. But there is a market demand for these types of products; they don't solely exist to fund the increasing size of Larry Ellison's yacht (though maybe in Larry's mind they do).

The main school of thought in business these days is still organizational and process focused. Only the newer guys think of business in terms of products, SOAs, SDGs and APIs, and it'll take decades yet for that kind of thinking to fully infect corporate America.