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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by hedora on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:51PM (#32782586)
Salesforce carved off a big chunk of SAP's business, and is currently valued at $155B.

I'm sure their goal was to eventually replace SAP. Instead, I think they ended up with an 80% solution that requires the customers to invest 20% as much time as a full SAP setup.

For instance, Salesforce spends a lot of effort on sales and customer facing things. SAP does that too, but it also does logistics. Logistics infrastructure is much harder to reuse across industries than sales and customer support.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by intuxikated on Friday September 09, 2022 @03:09PM (#32783565)
Salesforce is great, but heavily focussed on Sales / CRM part of the equasion. I'm not sure if salesforce is able to replace other parts of ERP systems like Purchasing, Inventory management, Manufacturing etc... ERP systems are much more vast than Salesforce (which I agree, is great in what it does, but it's not ERP)
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