A virus

An OS for bleeding companies dry

An OS for Finance :)

Same thing, as is servicenow, they're all cloud platforms angling to be the "Company OS" all coming at it from different angles. Salesforce comes in at the sales side of things, SAP invades as a finance app, and ServiceNow begins their encroachment as an IT ticketing system, but they all wanna be THE only cloud platform your company needs.

It seems like a good solution would have clean interfaces between various pieces so they can be easily replaced. Sales, purchasing, payroll, HR, and IT stand out to me, but there may well be others.

good to know what these "Company OS" stands for

> Salesforce comes in at the sales side of things,

> SAP invades as a finance app, and

> ServiceNow begins their encroachment as an IT ticketing system,

but they all wanna be THE only cloud platform your company needs.

Good summary!

And Microsoft through the Productivity apps? (Word, Excel...)

Sure but Microsoft isn’t really offering a coherent solution for general company data and processes. They have the power platform, but because there’s no happy path, best practices, laid out it requires a lot more buy in from actual engineers who don’t have a lot of love for nocode platforms.

> Sure but Microsoft isn’t really offering a coherent solution for general company data and processes.

Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Dynamics 365?

> Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a product line of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) intelligent business applications

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Dynamics_365

On a related note, what happened to BizTalk?

What? Microsoft is one of the biggest players in the market in this space with Dynamics 365!

I don’t have any data to back it up officially, but working in the space it seems like dynamics is taking customers from their competitors (eg SAP) fast too…

Microsoft also has Dynamics 365 (née Navision).

D365 has elements descended from Dynamics CRM, Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV and probably lots of other stuff!

> and probably lots of other stuff!

Yeah, lots of botched React integrations, misuse of Serviced Workers, nightmare security roles, just to name a few daily problems you will run into when choosing Dynamics 365!