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Re:The hard part of Enterprise Software is the Enterprise, n... by rsj_hn on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:38PM (#27226051)
Is it really hard to extract data? That would appear to be an unnecessary friction and not in the interest of any serious vendor.

I imagine the lockin is all the custom code you wrote for the platform. The data is portable, even the schema can be reproduced in a fairly straightforward way. But all your bespoke automation code is not portable.

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Re:The hard part of Enterprise Software is the Enterprise, n... by thrower123 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:14PM (#27228644)
It shouldn't be, but there's always been very healthy industry niches around pulling data from one system and putting it into another one. Nothing ever lines up exactly, and there's always some idiosyncratic remapping or futzing that has to be done manually or with some one-off custom code, so it remains an expensive contract business.
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Re:The hard part of Enterprise Software is the Enterprise, n... by beckingz on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:15PM (#27228646)
The friction is in salesforce's favor.
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