Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 117
Former executive in charge of a large (25,000+ user) Oracle ERP implementation for a public-sector entity. Inherited the system four years after go-live with no reconciliation between the ledger and the bank. I've done the signing paper checks to schools while looking really sorry on the news thing. A large part of the 'bespoke' is self-inflicted. Yes, everyone uses GAAP, or some such. But, when you have a ton of semi-autonomous agencies in the cabinet each defining custom processes, their own component systems requiring integrations (and lobbyists for each with varying political pull), a plethora of federal agencies each with non-homogenized reporting requirements, and 'democratically' defined field names and reports . . .
In the end, it took two third-party integrators (one for FIN, one for HCM), a third-party PM organization, a technical system owner that was six-sigma talented relative to her colleagues -- willing to walk instead of negotiating with terrorists, and absolute (ruthless, even) support of the enterprise CFO to pull it off. Oh and another contractor just to handle licensing and represent us during audits.