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29:["$","p","6",{"className":"text-[1.0625rem] leading-[1.75] text-steel","children":"Ask these of any system you are considering, and get the answers in writing. They are cheap to ask now and expensive to discover later."}]
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2d:["$","p","10",{"className":"text-[1.0625rem] leading-[1.75] text-steel","children":"This is common with older Malaysian business software, and it is not a dead end. The usual options, roughly in order of preference:"}]
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34:["$","p","17",{"className":"text-[1.0625rem] leading-[1.75] text-steel","children":"For a single flow between two systems with reasonable APIs — orders from a storefront into an ERP, say — expect the effort to divide roughly into discovery and mapping, building, and testing, with mapping usually the largest share. The credentials, sandbox access and sample data need to come from you, and delays there are the most common cause of a slipped timeline."}]
35:["$","p","18",{"className":"text-[1.0625rem] leading-[1.75] text-steel","children":"Budget for ongoing maintenance too. Vendor APIs change, certificates expire, volumes grow. A modest support arrangement keeps an integration healthy for years; no arrangement at all means you find out it stopped when a customer tells you."}]
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