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… good deal of information proposed that IT departments should be decentralized, with each IT department essentially having its mini-IT department. (one for accounting, one for operations, one for marketing?). As each department was not going to have its mainframe, each department opened the door to purchasing lower-cost servers instead. What is curious is that the most widely purchased category of enterprise software became ERP at the same time, which had to be administered centrally. Interestingly, IT departments never became decentralized in a meaningful way, while servers did replace mainframes the most commonly purchased computer hardware outside of personal

… Why is the term transaction processing not used in most articles covering these hot topics? If transaction processing is tedious, why is it foundational to some of the most discussed IT areas?
ERP systems are frequently discussed concerning functionality without emphasizing that most of what they do is transaction processing. ERP systems have other types of processing, as well. For example, they run mathematical procedures like MRP and DRP. Some analytics are performed within the ERP system, although in most cases, analytics are performed outside of ERP systems. However, the bulk of ERP systems is transaction processing, not running procedures …

… their revenues and profits.
If we contrast this with prominent commercial software vendors, we see a very different pattern. As the prominent proprietary on-premises hardware vendors excel at overselling hardware into their customers, with Oracle and SAP, they excel at selling shelfware to their customer base.

The S/4HANA ERP system, as of the end of 2018, had 8700 customers who held licenses but only 2000 go-lives. As we covered in The Implementation Study of S/4HANA, few of those 2000 go-lives were confirmed, meaning few added value to the account.
Oracle sells cloud licenses and on …