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… the installation of software.
Right. This means that Y2K, and an overblown Y2K fear, which was stoked by software vendors and consulting firms, as we cover in the article How ERP Vendors Deliberately Exaggerated the Y2K Issue, was used to scare companies into buying ERP systems. Many academics’ voices stated that the Y2K issue was being overblown, but industry drowned out those voices.
Overall, this was our highest scored article. It was refreshing to read an article on ERP ROI that was not simply trying to sugarcoat the topic.
Article #7: Acumatica’s ERP ROI Calculator How to Get …

… Estimating ROI?
It is often vendors offering ROI estimations to customers and prospects, but this is extremely problematic as they are trying to sell software. ROI estimations made by consulting firms are not better as they are typically angling for systems implementation’s consulting business.
ROI Missing Item #4: Lack of Specificity as to What and How to Measure the ROI
Most of the articles were written with minimal effort and appeared to be designed for the company to have an article, but without putting much time into effort into the topic of ROI.
It’s very easy to …

… calculation. Mostly they do not advance TCO, but simply declare its importance. Low

Gartner Pushes software buyers to the highest TCO solutions. Generally does not get into TCO quantification. Medium (With buyers)

Forrester Has produced some of the worst TCO calculations that we have reviewed. Unclear

IT Media Normally allows consulting firms to simply state the importance of TCO. The journalist typically does no attempt to contribute in any way to TCO. IT media articles typically rely on consulting firms without having anyway of verifying the information they are provided. Unclear

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Conclusion

The collective energies …