As far as I can tell, the only thing thy do well is convince corporate entities to buy them - they’re great at PR, and that’s where all the effort goes.
My brothers work for a bank (a bank?!) which lost its CIO in disgrace after abandoning a many-multi-millions attempt to swap to their now twenty year old systems over to sap. I just genuinely do not fathom how anyone looks at what is at-best a fairly average warehousing system and thinks it makes sense to use it for any other purpose.
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