Have an IT department take over. Have things that took five minutes to change previously now take weeks of writing requirements plus waiting for implementation only to be told after a year that your request has been descoped. Now you have a “professional” Solution but also some spreadsheets because you actually have a job to do and need these changes and Excel is the only way to do it quickly.

I once had a temp job where I would take data printed out from a mainframe, and type it into a PC. I asked "Why not download it?" It turned out it was easier to hire someone to type than to get any useful cooperation out of IT.

Obviously a JSON/XML blockchain written in Go and optimized for Android 10.0.

( /s )

Not enough Microservices, Big Data, AR, and Machine Learning

(I am worried we just described 3 half billion dollar startups)

Nah, it needs to be in Kotlin, remember Android is #KotlinFirst, #KotlinEverywhere now.

It also needs to be rewritten with Flutter after a while.

Nah do it in Rust.

Exactly. Why break something that works? Because it's not "new?" Because it wasn't sold to you by a consulting company? Because it wasn't advertised in a jetway at the airport?

Because these systems often end up as a single point of failure -- whoever is the custodian of them is the gatekeeper to the information, and when they leave, you can be boned.

That's not a technology problem, that's an organizational problem.

Pay €500 million and wait 7 years for SAP?

This reminds me of a nice side note from one of the thinnest, yet more expensive books I had to buy in uni. It was a book on ERP or something obviously & in one of the side note they mentioned that most ERP implementations cost between 50 and 500 million and were mostly obsolete by the time the implementation was complete...

machine learning, AI, blockchain, server less and web assembly

Maybe it's a good thing that "AI" is used so much so that the hype will die down.

A weird consequence of "AI" is that it causes companies to look at their data at all. 80% of the time they could answer the question by doing a regression, and they hadn't even done that. You can even do a regression in Excel...

A google docs spreadsheet, duh