Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:17AM
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SAP and it's ilk provide a real service.
They protect and take care of a lot of problems, the issue is they're so flexible that sometimes people build ad-hoc things on top of them and over time it becomes a ridiculous monstrosity similar to any other system in a company with major legacy.
There is no inherent solution to this problem other than disciple (or control, which has it's own productivity issues).
A lot of things developers must build in, and decisions developers make, are built in already for these systems.
They protect and take care of a lot of problems, the issue is they're so flexible that sometimes people build ad-hoc things on top of them and over time it becomes a ridiculous monstrosity similar to any other system in a company with major legacy.
There is no inherent solution to this problem other than disciple (or control, which has it's own productivity issues).
A lot of things developers must build in, and decisions developers make, are built in already for these systems.