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Re:What's SAP? by kriro on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:56AM (#22245116)
I used to work in a research project where I went to some UX conferences in Germany (not really my field). The big irony/running gag is that SAP seems pretty good in UX-research, Hasso Plattner Institute is fairly recognized for their UX work and yet SAP-UX is a nightmare.

They just can't/won't roll out new things.

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Re:What's SAP? by dr_dshiv on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:30AM (#22245307)
Yeah, what is that about? Do you have more insights on this?
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Re:What's SAP? by lexs on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:36AM (#22245602)
The HPI is a faculty of the public University of Potsdam, it is not a research unit of SAP or anything similar. They have projects with Oracle just as they do with SAP and a ton of other companies.
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Re:What's SAP? by somesortofsystm on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:43AM (#22245642)
Academia is easily bought, especially in Germany.

Also, HN is a hacker crowd with a particular axe to grind re: UI, since all the cool new UI shit makes insta-billionaires, or at least thats the dream.

Whereas with a SAP-using business, the computer isn't the product - the products that the computer allows the company to manufacture/distribute are the only thing that matters - and the SAP UI is intentionally set up by bean-counters.

Once you go SAP, like get into the SAP Zone, you can be quite productive - but like another poster said, SAP is like vim.

:wq

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Re:What's SAP? by epr on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:40AM (#22246588)
:x
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Re:What's SAP? by fr1tkot on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:24AM (#22246491)
The HPI is not run by SAP the corporation in any way. It's "just" Hasso Plattners money funding it.
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