For one, it's similar to the "nobody ever got fired for picking IBM" saying. Especially in Germany. As far as I remember, one of the managers involved was forme

For one, it's similar to the "nobody ever got fired for picking IBM" saying. Especially in Germany. As far as I remember, one of the managers involved was former SAP too. But also, SAP has a lot of accounting and legal process knowledge baked in that is reusable even if you customize everything about it. That's what "mildly competent" developers are missing. Essentially, they used SAP as a framework.