Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks
by NegativeLatency on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:34PM
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> managing expenses is so painful that employees consider not expending their spending
That's not a bug for some companies, who would prefer to not reimburse you.
Managing expenses is only a pain because my company doesn’t trust me when I tell them I spent $20 on a meal. And have to give them both a digital, and then physical (signed!) receipt.
Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks
by cipher_system on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:25AM
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It's annoying and could probably be made easier, but these things are required by law. Also, not everyone can be trusted and it's not easy to tell.
No, but there are solutions that involve giving people a fixed amount of money every month for these small expenses (or a fixed amount per day for longer business trips).
Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks
by cipher_system on Saturday October 12, 2019 @04:06AM
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I would assume most companies use per diem for business trips. Agree that it would be great with something similar for other small expenses.
But none the less, all company expenses needs to be verifiable by some kind of receipt in the accounting to be legal. At least thats how it works in my country. So someone has to enter that into some sort of system, ideally the economy people would take care of that.
Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks
by closeparen on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:43AM
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Definitely not. We require digital images only, and not even an image is required for corporate card transactions under a limit.
I agree with everything you say, except the last bit.
You can't believe people aren't aware that concur is a pita and hence it reduces expense valid expense submission...
Concur is a pleasure compared to some internal SAP-based expense reporting systems I’ve used.
Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks
by scarface74 on Friday October 11, 2019 @07:19PM
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Concur, especially on mobile is pretty good. It’s a lot better than every single project manager tool that I have ever used.
The amount of pain inflicted on employees by enterprise solutions of various kinds is immeasurable. As a developer, I squirm witnessing so much unnecessary work and discomfort associated with simple tasks.
For example, even in 2020, managing expenses is so painful that employees consider not expending their spending.