There are all these configurable options on how are you going to run the systems.
You set literally hundreds of parameters in these applications. So we went off site two
days, 40 people, and everybody’s homework assignment was for that off site meeting,
maybe three of four weeks into the project at this stage, was come in with an 80-20
recommendation on how to configure the system. We met all day and into the night for
two days, going down to the “nth-degree” on how we were going to make this thing
run for us. Oracle experts, with KPMG experts, with Cisco business people, Cisco IT
people, let’s talk about GL, let’s talk about Chart of Accounts, talk about this and talk
about that. I call it the 1% effort that gave us 80% accuracy on how we would run this
application, as opposed to a typical ERP approach, where you go off for six months,
and overanalyze it to death. We had this three to four weeks into the project and we
ended up being about 80% accurate in terms of how we could do this.