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Some consultant had told "Adopting an ERP (SAP, Oracle or other) is a stronger bond than marriage". So those valuations could be strong and long term.
by diminish 7y ago
Some consultant had told "Adopting an ERP (SAP, Oracle or other) is a stronger bond than marriage". So those valuations could be strong and long term.
- AmericanChopper 7y agoI consulted for a company once that had made several attempts to migrate from their ERP (as well as having made several acquisitions and mergers over the decades). When I was there the state of things was 3 ERP systems that they had built, and another 2 that they had gained through mergers, all still operating and ERPing between each other. No matter how many enormous multi-year migration projects they started, they never managed to turn a single one of them off.
- probably_wrong 7y agoI used SAP at work to keep track of monthly working hours. The GUI had this... feature that doesn't allow you to resize the form you're working with. And you can scroll vertically, but the first columns are frozen in place. As a result, only 15% of your screen is usable, showing 4 out of the 30 columns you need to fill at a time and requiring constant scrolling. As a user, I would have been happy to dump it and use anything else. But who am I going to complain to? I'm not the customer, my company was. And it's not like they are going to switch ERPs just because employees hate it (which we all did). Even if they wanted, the cost of switching now would probably be astronomical - not only on migration, but also on training and support. It's no surprise that SAP is worth that much, seeing as they have the perfect captive audience: the wealthy kind.
- 72deluxe 7y agoDo users just accept this "feature" garbage? I get the feeling they do.
- benhurmarcel 7y agoThey don't have a choice. You're not going to resign because the software to submit hours has a terrible interface.
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