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… actually is.
“According to the estimation of the Standish Group International, 90% of SAP R/3 ERP projects runs late, another SGI study of 7400 IT projects revealed that 34% were late or over budget, 31% were abandoned, scaled back or modified, and only 24% were completed on time and on a budget. One explanation for the high ERP project failure rate is that managers do not take prudent measures to assess and manage the risks involved in these projects.” – Risk Assessment in ERP Projects
These statistics are guidelines, but I don’t consider them anywhere near as useful …

… start with one of the most commonly followed strategies.
The Pattern of Large Software Vendors
The development pattern of large software vendors is a particular problem for the idea of purchasing integrated suites.
All of the tech giants are really built around one item.

SAP has one dominant item, the ERP system, and then many wasteful development and acquisitions around it.
Oracle has the database and then a bunch of wasteful development and acquisitions around it.
Microsoft has Windows/Office, and etc…
Amazon has two competent businesses — the Amazon Store and AWS. But strangely, AMZN only makes money from AWS …

… and they mostly show the same thing, roughly 30% of projects meet their objectives. Here is a small sampling of some of these studies.
Robbins Gioia Survey 2001
51% viewed their ERP implementation as unsuccessful. 46% of the participants noted that while their organization had an ERP system in place, or was implementing a system, they did not feel their organization understood how to use the system to improve the way they conduct business
https://www.it-cortex.com/Stat_Failure_Rate.htm
KPMG Canada Survey 1997
Over 61 % of the projects that were analyzed were deemed to have …