Warehouse Manager:

I know this will help us long$-$term to eliminate some significant pain points. But this whole process is so disruptive. How soon do you think we'll have to go through all this again? You:

We chose a cloud$-$hosted solution for all of our system upgrades, which gives us flexibility so we can benefit from automatic upgrades and shift seamlessly to alternative service options offered by the same vendor as our needs change over time. Plus, this is a big$-$name provider that has been on the leading edge of these technologies for several years already. Hopefully, you and I will both be retired before any more major changes are needed.