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Exactly. Or the customer that grows from $10M -> $100M, still running with the same accounting team, who now take >25 days to close the books every month. This
by greggyb 11y ago
Exactly. Or the customer that grows from $10M -> $100M, still running with the same accounting team, who now take >25 days to close the books every month. This is an unfortunately common refrain.
I often joke that my job is simply the application of arithmetic under a handful of logical rules, for varying values of "logical".
Edit: I don't type so well.
- Spooky23 11y agoI worked for a retailer in college like this... Multi billion dollar company working on some dinky system like you describe. They tied the sales/finance systems to their manufacturing division via some ad hoc lotus notes apps!
- greggyb 11y agoWe've been in talks recently with a very large manufacturing customer that is still in the process of coming off Lotus Notes for Office 365. They started last year.