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

Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by theshrike79 on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:35AM (#32776831)

You can customise it, but you do need to stay within limits.

If you go too far, a SAP version upgrade is no longer a drop-in operation, but rather a year long project of porting all your changes to the new version.

If you stay as vanilla as possible, upgrades are a lot easier.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by taway19920706 on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:48AM (#32776922)

This. SAP has no restrictions on how much you customise it - you can customise and extend to your heart's content. The problems come during upgrade - SAP has very mature tooling to manage upgrades but a customer who has veered too far from standard will need to rework their customisations to fit the new version.

Many many customers have been burned by this over the years - being too trigger happy and customising/building their own extensions rather than using the out-the-box functionality. Packaged software exists for a reason, don't use it like a PaaS to built your own solutions.

SAP is now pushing customers to "keep the core clean" and stick to standard as much as possible, which is definitely a move in the right direction.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by kazinator on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:49AM (#32776932)

Fun with your comment:

  s/SAP/Debian/g

  s/mature/so-so/

  s/customer/sucker/

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by taway19920706 on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:14AM (#32777125)

Hey, keep your hands off Debian! :P (I say this as as retired Debian developer)

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by tomaaron on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:25AM (#32777202)

This is hilarious.

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