A senior manager at Deluxe Check Corporation led an ERP system selection between SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft. The evaluation phase alone stretched two and a half years, revealing how early career decisions shape what comes next.
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So when we talk about decision makers, here's a story that you guys can relate to, I am sure. So early in my career, I was a senior manager, and I can say that was early in my career because I was there a lot longer than that. So I was a senior manager and we were at a client. I can use the name now because it's so old. This is like last century. Um, I was at Deluxe Check Corporation and they were implementing SAP. Actually, they weren't implementing SAP. What they were doing was doing this— the first phase was a software fit assessment. They're going to choose between SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft because those were three different things at the time. And so I got on this project and it's 2 and a half years before anything's getting implemented.