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brettv2 ◴[14 Feb 24 15:54 UTC] No.39371339[source]▶
> NEW ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE

Very curious if anyone knows how to pull this off. There's so much value to be unlocked but it's just impossible to break through.

I've personally met three very talented founders that tried and failed (one was accepted to YC as a mid-market ERP and successfully pivoted into an application tracking system) and failed very quickly.

I'm guessing an important feature would be an integration system that maps data from the current ERP seamlessly into the new ERP. And that assumes you can even get through the enterprise sales process to even get the company to migrate.

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1. SteveNuts ◴[14 Feb 24 18:45 UTC] No.39373523[source]▶
Step one is to make sure it's auditable.

Every auditor on the planet is intimately familiar with how Oracle EBS and SAP do certain things.

If you don't have that trust built up, a customer simply won't want to take the risk and additional headache and overhead passing an audit will take.

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2. briandear ◴[14 Feb 24 21:10 UTC] No.39375432[source]▶
Sounds like there is the opportunity. An ERP that can eliminate the need for auditors. Then it won’t matter what the auditors think. Auditing isn’t some black magic. It’s a set of rules. Rules a machine can follow.
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3. hef19898 ◴[14 Feb 24 21:28 UTC] No.39375701[source]▶
A machine controlled by the audited company. Audits are there to minimize the risk of companies cooking the books.

You never went through an audit, did you?

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4. tolien ◴[14 Feb 24 23:52 UTC] No.39377244{3}[source]▶
> A machine controlled by the audited company. Audits are there to minimize the risk of companies cooking the books

Sounds like the pitch Fujitsu made to the Post Office for Horizon. That worked out so well!

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5. skeeter2020 ◴[15 Feb 24 00:46 UTC] No.39377702[source]▶
"Auditing isn’t some black magic. It’s a set of rules"

This is not true. Auditing is half assurance and half insurance. It has nothing to do with the actual results of a bunch of rules and checks.

6. lelanthran ◴[15 Feb 24 08:39 UTC] No.39380404[source]▶
> Sounds like there is the opportunity. An ERP that can eliminate the need for auditors.

You cannot eliminate the need for auditors - the need is for someone to go through the system and make sure that no one is cooking the books.

Hence, an independent third party does the audit.

7. hef19898 ◴[15 Feb 24 13:15 UTC] No.39382286{4}[source]▶
Rounding errors, simple rounding errors. Nothing to see here.
8. arnorhs ◴[21 Feb 24 14:45 UTC] No.39454431[source]▶
This makes me wonder. I wonder if the real opportunity is in solutions that help auditors in one way or the other.

If the auditors are sensitive to which systems they are familiar with, it would perhaps be beneficial to the auditors to be able to understand other systems.

I'm sure there are companies that are servicing auditors, creating UiPath flows or whatever for a bunch of auditors. So there's probably already a ton of very specific solutions out there, for auditing various systems.

At least it sounds like a more solvable problem than yet another ERP