As seen in the previous posts in the MIS Saga category, the fight between huge, cookie-cut systems and smaller, custom made solutions has continued into another episode.
From the current status, it seems that
Feathers TPMS has gotten the upper hand with management. It was voted a few days ago as the enterprise system of choice over SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW). From the public release notice it was chosen as it focused on the future with a customer-centric approach to its usability.
Whether it is a good decision, or one of those rants that just upsets the rest of the IT community in Australia by fragmenting the available solutions and picking the smallest and cheapest one on basis of TCO and cultural change.
As an aside, I am interested to see how the future of Feathers in a system where
everything is delicately allocated and monitored for importance affects its livelihood and importance at an enterprise level.