Re:What's SAP?
by mrich on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:29AM
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Why would they? It's none of their core business and SAP already has everything covered. Think of all the legal/financial stuff. The UI is not that important in that field, your domain expert in that area knows how to navigate stuff.
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Event Microsoft does it (https://www.erpsoftwareblog.com/2012/11/why-does-microsoft-h...), despite the fact that they have their own ERP product (Dynamics).
I won't wave that question off completely.
It wasn't Amazon's core competency to offer IaaS/PaaS, before they did. GCP and AWS are closely playing in SAP's enterprise customer base. There is huge addressable market there. They've innovated better than SAP in technology space, on parts other than business software.
If they can succeed developing their own ERP, better than SAP, they could even redeploy the development teams from being cost center to profit center.
If I am SAP, I see them as strategic long term risk.
Re:What's SAP?
by ptruesdell on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:59AM
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Established ERP systems take so long to configure that sometimes, it makes more sense to write your own in-house. Tesla did just that. And in only 4 months.