My employer used Peoplesoft, in the days before Oracle bought it. Of course, you can't set up Peoplesoft on your own, you bring in consultants. When I reviewed

My employer used Peoplesoft, in the days before Oracle bought it. Of course, you can't set up Peoplesoft on your own, you bring in consultants. When I reviewed my notes from all the pitches, I found that they all had said that we should modify our processes to suit Peoplesoft. I guess we did--I was new there. I would also say that painful, unduly costly implementations seem pretty standard for ERP products. I have heard such stories about SAP.