Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
by mrmaloke on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:43AM
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I would disagree with your disagreement and instead argue that the UX is indeed horrible.
SAP is very inconsistent across different views. It's not about learning a different concept, but memorizing each little detail.
On some forms you need to press <enter> to get to the next one. Sometimes it's clicking a button. Another time it's <F3>.
You can become a pro in SAP UIs, of course. But it's tedious and your knowledge applies nowhere else.
It definitively is neither pretty, discoverable nor intuitive, but in the hands of experienced power users (who have spent a lot of time learning the UI), it works really well. I have seen people (who have used the system probably for > 10 years) dig the most arcane information out in seconds, navigating through about ten different views without ever touching a mouse.
It's a UI from another era, but if you take the time to learn it properly, it can be very efficient.