ERP Integration Cost: Essential Planning Guide to Avoid Risk
Integration is the line in an ERP business case that moves the most and gets questioned the least, and it is where programmes quietly run out of money. This guide takes the number apart: what the estimate should actually include, the handful of factors that move it by a factor of five, how point-to-point, native connectors, middleware and iPaaS compare over five years rather than on day one, realistic price bands for UK companies from small business to multi-entity enterprise, where the first-year budget really goes, the costs most quotes leave out, and a phased plan that controls the total without cutting the scope that matters.