We weren't in the position to make the investment needed for a single-instance ERP system. You can always spend $2 or $3 million on software, and sometimes you get the benefit, sometimes you don't. We were looking for a low-cost integration strategy we could reuse for a number of different e-business objectives.

Bo Foster

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