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

Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by thrown_22 on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:01AM (#32779365)

>Why is SAP successful? Because the general purpose tools (or worse, amalgamations of multiple single-purpose tools) that came before were absolute shit, and SAP is instead only difficult to use.

The people who are hurt by it are not the people deciding to buy it.

SAP looks great for Csuite executives when it produces reports. For an engineer trying to enter their hours it's an hours long torture session every two weeks.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by CountSessine on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:09AM (#32779437)

This is the very definition of enterprise software - the people who buy it are not the same people who use it.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by petesergeant on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:53AM (#32779981)

Same with kid's toys, the difference being that feedback for kid's toys to the purchaser is immediate and painful if the wrong option is selected

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by ngrilly on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:06PM (#32784221)

Spot on! Clearly something you can’t write if you don’t have kids yourself :)

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by kubanczyk on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:18AM (#32788585)

Nah. Same outcome, they just shelve it and it's end of story.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by hef19898 on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:31PM (#32781363)

You do onow that SAP does much more than booking your hours on a project, yes?

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