Omg this is something I have experienced too many times, and constantly warring with the other side of the coin: people who never want to make any change unless it is blessed by a consultant from Microsoft/VMWare/SAP and then it becomes the only possible course of action, and they get the CIO to sign off on some idiocy that will never work and say "CIO has decreed Project Falcon MUST SUCCEED" when CIO can't even tie his shoelaces. Giant enterprise integration will happen!

In fact we're going through one of these SAP HANA migrations at present and it's very broken, because the prime contractor has delivered a big ball of mud with lots of internal microservices.