What to ask before you commit, and what usually goes wrong after you do.
Choosing a system
The test of whether you own your data is whether you can take it somewhere else. Ask during the trial, because the answer is cheapest to get then.
A demo is a performance. These questions are the ones that are hard to perform, with a note on what a deflection usually means.
Spreadsheets do not fail loudly. They keep producing a number long after it stopped being the right one. These are the symptoms worth noticing before an audit notices them for you.
Most ERP regret is not about features. It is about who owns the data, what a change costs, and whether the numbers on two screens agree. Here is what to examine before you sign.