Q2 — The hidden iceberg. University ERP migrations take 2–3 years, not one semester. The real work: migrating 20 years of records with inconsistent formats, dead fields, undocumented conventions.
Q3 — The classic integration failure. Payroll, library, hostel, fee gateway, transcripts — everything depends on the old ERP.
Cutting over breaks things nobody remembered existed. The dependency map is never complete.