Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today

Re:Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to ru... by samstave on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:59PM (#30903206)

Think Oracle, with business logic on top. (JDEdwards, Oracle, SAP) were the OGs of BI.

(and bloat, and McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+)

They are old school, entrenched, but yu would jump off a cliff supporting any of this legacy stuff. It will persist as the inertia on huge systems is heavy.

But yeah - I wonder if they are signing any NEW business... aside from military bunker grade stuff (which will cost as much as the bunker to implement) I dont see a reason to implement (not because I am bashing, but because I dont know the modern business case reqs that would call for SAP)

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Re:Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to ru... by sveme on Monday April 04, 2022 @12:49AM (#30903399)

Google switched to SAP two years or so ago.

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Re:Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to ru... by cerved on Monday April 04, 2022 @02:28AM (#30903813)

switched what?

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Re:Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to ru... by RedNifre on Monday April 04, 2022 @06:19AM (#30904967)

The company.

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Re:Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to ru... by anticensor on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:31AM (#30907046)

I would have expected something like ABC CRM, tailored to Google.

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Re:Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to ru... by rendall on Monday April 04, 2022 @12:34AM (#30903336)

> McKinsey infiltration into...

What is McKinsey infiltration?

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Re:Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to ru... by n3k5 on Monday April 04, 2022 @02:41AM (#30903886)

I don't know about “McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+” first-hand, but from context I'd guess it's simply getting consultants from McKinsey & Company[0] jobs in the ‘infiltrated’ firm, on the basis that it has no in-house employees capable of properly setting up / running the bizarrely complex and idiosyncratic SCM-ERP-HCM-BI-etc. software in question.

Basically: You have a problem; Oracle/SAP says they'll solve it for you. Now you have a second problem; they say McKinsey'll solve it for you. Now you have …

[0] https://mckinsey.com

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Re:Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to ru... by samstave on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:46PM (#30911164)

Its the cancer that permeates your C-Suite. Meta-stasize-ing,

God I love etymology:

"-Stasize"

     **To stand on a hilltop once. To be, this time, on advance. To reach the highest clouds. To touch the limits of space. To out-grow skyscrapers. And make them look at my face.**

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So FB is becoming a meta-stacious being..

That which wishes to control from a vantage, or t corrupt from within the minds... The light house.

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