Those in the California procurement office, those in Gov. 'DOOFUS' hip pocket, or those with Governor in their hip pocket?
I'm shocked. Simply shocked.
That isn't going to happen. This kind of software has to bend to suit the company's business processes. Getting the company to bend to meet the software is even more expensive, and a lot more work. That's because most companies do not know what their business processes are. Take a company of even 150 people, and I guarantee you that no one person can tell you every step in how a purchase order makes it from the incoming mail room to a sealed box on the shipping dock. Somehow it happens, but no one understands it. It's an organic system that just sort of grew up with the company. Ask somebody in the middle of it why the order goes to the credit department and then back to them, and they don't know; it's just how it's always been.
Somehow the software installers are supposed to come in and piece all this together, so that people see the right things on their screens. No custom code? Feh. In this company, they use Julian dates. Why? Nobody knows. Some operations guy they had twenty years ago started it, and here we are now. We either make the software talk Julian dates, or we turn the manufacturing system upside down. Guess which wins.