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by soared 1949 days ago
ITT: Nobody who has ever been involved in enterprise purchasing and decision making.

When my employer (only ~300 people) switched to salesforce it took 3 years from when we started looking at vendors to completing the switch. Buying software at this level is not just adding it to your cart, its creating a project that will take up huge chunks of dev time. Its a discussion between parties, and the price (contract) takes months of work to agree on.

We hired a consultant literally just for redlining. https://blog.pandadoc.com/what-is-contract-redlining-and-con...

Just because you can implement easily does not mean 90% of the vendor's customers can.