[healsjnr1]

> I hear this all the time, and it's almost always wrong. Engineers and businesses are always convinced they're special and don't fit the mold. That's rarely the case, and the money used on these initiatives was probably better spent elsewhere.

That seems like big statement given you have no context about the person making it.

I also work on a team that has built large potions of this intentionally and willingly. And the results have been great.

The reason is we don't hand off our business to a black box part way through our business process. We own it. Top to bottom.

This means when we change the products we sell, how we sell them and how we support them, we know the impact on our back office, reporting, invoicing and accounting systems. And vice versa

Yes owning the whole stack is expensive. But we also have parts of our company that rely on ERPs and other similar products.

I can tell you very clearly that our ability to develop products is an order of magnitude faster and cheaper than those relying on an ERP.