[fps_doug]

That's what I thought. I have direct experience from two companies who wasted a shit-ton on SAP, and pretty much everybody who had to deal with it was happy afterwards. And I'm not just talking people being grumpy because they had to get used to something new. Often used processes became much more complicated, logic flaws were introduced (I witnessed someone breaking into tears a couple weeks in).

One of those companies also wen't bankrupt a couple years later. They weren't doing all too well before either, so wasting a huge load of money on a system that basically makes your internal processes grind to a halt probably didn't help.

Hearing that you waste half a billion on this really makes me wonder if it isn't much more practical to just develop custom made software in house.