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Two people, six weeks.
Sunday 12th January 2020
Sean Murphy
I recently sat though a Cloud sales presentation, delivered by a large global consultancy, in which they spent a great deal of time emphasising their ability to rapidly deploy a working instance of a financial ERP system in just six weeks. Within the audience with me were several senior business representatives, as well as IT services and hardened deployment project staff. Whilst I have no doubt that they could have an instance of the software up and running in six weeks, this would be almost if not completely vanilla, involve no business process optimisation, very basic planning, targeted testing, little to no training and certainly no data migration of any significance. I find this incredibly misleading and unrepresentative…