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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by roydivision on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:46AM (#32776908)
The UI isn’t just terrible, it’s hostile to the user. The rare times I am forced to interact with it I feel like I’m using software that was meant for some other purpose. I’ve worked in the industry for 25 years, I’ve never come across worse UI.
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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by robertlagrant on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:05AM (#32777051)
My favourite bit of the SAP UI is whenever you scroll a listbox, it goes back to the server to load the rest of the list. It only has data for the exact 5 items it's showing; the other 1 above or 3 below each need a server hit. And it forgets the data it loaded before.
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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by hef19898 on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:38AM (#32777951)
It isn't use for you as a user, it is meant to run your company. You are not the user, you are the one feeding data into the system. And that is actually perfectly fine in case of ERP systems.
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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by tiborsaas on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:54AM (#32778547)
That's nonsense, people interacting with software are by definition users. If they pay for it we call them customers.
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