for all the reasons many explained below I want to add into the conversation. there is nothing completely off the shelf for a large organization. now I would ha

for all the reasons many explained below I want to add into the conversation. there is nothing completely off the shelf for a large organization. now I would have expected a city wide payroll system would be easier to manage but that obviously wasn't the case. we converted JDE to Peoplesoft AR/AP and there are still those who refuse to let us turn off the older systems. all its tables are maintained and even parallel runs are done for verification. all because out of the box isn't going to fix every organizations tweaks and needed changed to the particular business they are in; hint the burden or government regulation and tax law easily explains this. now, not in IBM's defense, one thing I have as a take a away from being on a contract to convert from one system to another about twenty years ago looked pretty simple. then came the data inconsistencies, the sheer number of exceptions of which many were known but only to a few, and finally resistance to the new software.