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one has to differentiate between SAP the product and SAP as implemented by random big-co. The parts that are user actively confusing and user hostile are usuall

by dfox 7y ago

one has to differentiate between SAP the product and SAP as implemented by random big-co. The parts that are user actively confusing and user hostile are usually result of customization done during the implementation (and motivated either by requirement to keep some existing ad-hoc process or by requirement to have some report contain something that is otherwise irrelevant for its contents). It is certainly not true that SAP does not care about UX (in fact the reason why SAPgui has it's decidedly non-native look is result of some UX research in late 90's), only the UX they care about is not about easy onboarding, but about efficiency of use. And by the way in my opinion SAPgui manages exceptionally well to combine power user features with discoverability (on the UI toolkit level).

jasonlhy 7y ago
In my previous company, there is a senior worked on SAP for a long period of time. In his point of view, the UI of SAP was nice in 90s, but they are outdated now. And you can’t customise the user interface with what you want. He also thinks we should not put too much effort in learning SAP product as a developer because he thinks ERP is not not for this generation. He suggested We can learn the integration with SAP, but don’t waste most our time to learn the SAP configuration from the top to the bottom, SAP programming etc.
- marcosdumay 7y ago
  > ERP is not not for this generation This generation has options for creating full custom software faster than one can configure an ERP.
  - Hir0ki 7y ago
    > This generation has options for creating full custom software faster than one can configure an ERP. No we can't do that, because the real world is messy. I currently work on a SAP system and the amount of localization and customization that was done for you is inexpensive for big corp. And you know that SAP will last the next 30 years, you don't know that about your Framework of choice.

by dfox 7y ago

jasonlhy 7y ago

In my previous company, there is a senior worked on SAP for a long period of time. In his point of view, the UI of SAP was nice in 90s, but they are outdated now. And you can’t customise the user interface with what you want. He also thinks we should not put too much effort in learning SAP product as a developer because he thinks ERP is not not for this generation. He suggested We can learn the integration with SAP, but don’t waste most our time to learn the SAP configuration from the top to the bottom, SAP programming etc.

marcosdumay 7y ago
> ERP is not not for this generation This generation has options for creating full custom software faster than one can configure an ERP.
- Hir0ki 7y ago
  > This generation has options for creating full custom software faster than one can configure an ERP. No we can't do that, because the real world is messy. I currently work on a SAP system and the amount of localization and customization that was done for you is inexpensive for big corp. And you know that SAP will last the next 30 years, you don't know that about your Framework of choice.