What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by cm2187 on Friday September 09, 2022 @03:35AM (#32776416)

Microsoft at one point wanted to become a full featured IT department for companies. From managing their infrastructures, active directory, issuing laptops, but also providing basic erp, kind of salesforce like. I am not sure where they went with that but it certainly an idea that has merit. A small or medium size company should probably outsource its IT department except for the parts that are specific to their business.

ERP are the mother of all vendor lockin for large companies. Not only you need to configure it, but you need to integrate it with the thousands of internal systems.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by skissane on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:14AM (#32776687)

> but also providing basic erp, kind of salesforce like. I am not sure where they went with that but it certainly an idea that has merit

Microsoft has a suite of ERP software – Microsoft Dynamics. They got it by acquiring a bunch of companies – Great Plains, Navision, Solomon, Axapta. Originally on-premise, now they encourage SaaS but some of it is still available on-premise for those who prefer that. Generally focuses on the small-to-medium enterprise sector, although they've been trying to make inroads on larger enterprises; but large enterprises are still dominated by SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by bbarn on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:26AM (#32776770)

Dynamics developer at my current job now. Can confirm, working with it is just as bad as SAP or Oracle development.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by cja on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:22PM (#32785076)

I work with NetSuite. The UI is good and the customisation and integration experience is not too bad. Not all ERP software is horrible

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