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Re:Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce... by leetharris on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @10:33AM (#41984231)
Yes I've seen it a couple of times and it is unbelievably expensive and always a mess. The amount of Salesforce consultants, Salesforce developers, plugins, tools, etc to keep it all stable is wild.

Still, there's a reason people keep using it. Salesforce is basically a pseudo ERP at this point.

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Re:Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce... by ghusto on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @11:47AM (#41985336)
> there's a reason people keep using it

I believe that reason is that they've figured out quality matters not at all when you're pitching to C-levels.

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Re:Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce... by billbrown on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @11:57AM (#41985514)
Sunk cost fallacy: they've spent so much money on it already, they have to keep using it or that was a waste.

Salesforce's view of this: lock-in.

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Re:Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce... by ForHackernews on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:07PM (#41985689)
> Salesforce is basically a pseudo ERP at this point.

Wait, is that not what Salesforce is? I thought it was supposed to be a more modern SAP alternative with "cloudy" vibes.

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Re:Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce... by rpncreator on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @01:31PM (#41987121)
> Salesforce is basically a pseudo ERP at this point.

Not quite there just yet.

Salesforce has commerce, OMS, CPQ, reporting (Tableau). Just missing the WMS (warehouse management system) and I think we should be there…

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Re:Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce... by rawgabbit on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:13PM (#41987644)
A third party offers a native Warehouse managed package. https://www.akatia.com/
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Re:Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce... by bigfatkitten on Friday November 01, 2024 @05:10PM (#42021594)
And a lot of companies have built their own on Salesforce.
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