Comment by tryitnow

I agree that people waste a lot of money on solutions without really understanding the problem.

I think the solution is rarely automate with VBA - however, using Excel with a little bit of VBA can be a useful first step on prototyping what a solution could look like.

But people do waste a ton of money on enterprise solutions that are just overkill for a given problem. This usually occurs in organizations where management has no real technical background and those who do don't have any real authority.