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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by zxienin on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:11AM (#32776665)
> Why is SAP still in business?

Very hard to throw/replace ERP. It might happen but it‘ll take decades for global SAP installed base to shrink seriously.

> Is it solely customer misinformation?

SAP (and other „enterprise sales“ players) sold to CIO with „account relationships“. Then software is shoved down the throat of business users.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by AmericanChopper on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:03AM (#32777030)
I once consulted for a place that had one seperate ERP for each acquisition or merger they’d had in the past few decades. They all had projects in progress to decommission/merge them back down to one, but they were never able to turn a single one of them off.
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