Exactly. People underestimate how much SAP is doing behind the scenes when properly configured. And beyond that, they overestimate the ergonomics of any enterprise alternative, especially ones that pre-dated SAP.
For every "We had a great internal platform that we custom built" story, there are multiple "We used a small vendor's product, and it was a nightmare."
Why is SAP successful? Because the general purpose tools (or worse, amalgamations of multiple single-purpose tools) that came before were absolute shit, and SAP is instead only difficult to use.
Progress!
(Also, a TAM that is literally every company, ever)
For every "We had a great internal platform that we custom built" story, there are multiple "We used a small vendor's product, and it was a nightmare."
Why is SAP successful? Because the general purpose tools (or worse, amalgamations of multiple single-purpose tools) that came before were absolute shit, and SAP is instead only difficult to use.
Progress!
(Also, a TAM that is literally every company, ever)