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What's the alternative?

by platz 7y ago

adwww 7y ago
Pay €500 million and wait 7 years for SAP?
- holstvoogd 7y ago
  This reminds me of a nice side note from one of the thinnest, yet more expensive books I had to buy in uni. It was a book on ERP or something obviously & in one of the side note they mentioned that most ERP implementations cost between 50 and 500 million and were mostly obsolete by the time the implementation was complete...
reaperducer 7y ago
Exactly. Why break something that works? Because it's not "new?" Because it wasn't sold to you by a consulting company? Because it wasn't advertised in a jetway at the airport?
- cwyers 7y ago
  Because these systems often end up as a single point of failure -- whoever is the custodian of them is the gatekeeper to the information, and when they leave, you can be boned.
  - reaperducer 7y ago
    That's not a technology problem, that's an organizational problem.
antiquark 7y ago
Obviously a JSON/XML blockchain written in Go and optimized for Android 10.0. ( /s )
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Nah, it needs to be in Kotlin, remember Android is #KotlinFirst, #KotlinEverywhere now.
  - Ididntdothis 7y ago
    It also needs to be rewritten with Flutter after a while.
    - doppp 7y ago
      Nah do it in Rust.
- grovellogic 7y ago
  Not enough Microservices, Big Data, AR, and Machine Learning (I am worried we just described 3 half billion dollar startups)
tsukurimashou 7y ago
machine learning, AI, blockchain, server less and web assembly
- throwaway4220 7y ago
  Maybe it's a good thing that "AI" is used so much so that the hype will die down.
  - QuesnayJr 7y ago
    A weird consequence of "AI" is that it causes companies to look at their data at all. 80% of the time they could answer the question by doing a regression, and they hadn't even done that. You can even do a regression in Excel...
skrowl 7y ago
A google docs spreadsheet, duh
Ididntdothis 7y ago
Have an IT department take over. Have things that took five minutes to change previously now take weeks of writing requirements plus waiting for implementation only to be told after a year that your request has been descoped. Now you have a “professional” Solution but also some spreadsheets because you actually have a job to do and need these changes and Excel is the only way to do it quickly.
- QuesnayJr 7y ago
  I once had a temp job where I would take data printed out from a mainframe, and type it into a PC. I asked "Why not download it?" It turned out it was easier to hire someone to type than to get any useful cooperation out of IT.
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What's the alternative?

by platz 7y ago

What's the alternative?

adwww 7y ago

Pay €500 million and wait 7 years for SAP?

holstvoogd 7y ago
This reminds me of a nice side note from one of the thinnest, yet more expensive books I had to buy in uni. It was a book on ERP or something obviously & in one of the side note they mentioned that most ERP implementations cost between 50 and 500 million and were mostly obsolete by the time the implementation was complete...

reaperducer 7y ago

Exactly. Why break something that works? Because it's not "new?" Because it wasn't sold to you by a consulting company? Because it wasn't advertised in a jetway at the airport?

cwyers 7y ago
Because these systems often end up as a single point of failure -- whoever is the custodian of them is the gatekeeper to the information, and when they leave, you can be boned.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  That's not a technology problem, that's an organizational problem.

antiquark 7y ago

Obviously a JSON/XML blockchain written in Go and optimized for Android 10.0. ( /s )

pjmlp 7y ago
Nah, it needs to be in Kotlin, remember Android is #KotlinFirst, #KotlinEverywhere now.
- Ididntdothis 7y ago
  It also needs to be rewritten with Flutter after a while.
  - doppp 7y ago
    Nah do it in Rust.
grovellogic 7y ago
Not enough Microservices, Big Data, AR, and Machine Learning (I am worried we just described 3 half billion dollar startups)

tsukurimashou 7y ago

machine learning, AI, blockchain, server less and web assembly

throwaway4220 7y ago
Maybe it's a good thing that "AI" is used so much so that the hype will die down.
- QuesnayJr 7y ago
  A weird consequence of "AI" is that it causes companies to look at their data at all. 80% of the time they could answer the question by doing a regression, and they hadn't even done that. You can even do a regression in Excel...

skrowl 7y ago

A google docs spreadsheet, duh

Ididntdothis 7y ago

Have an IT department take over. Have things that took five minutes to change previously now take weeks of writing requirements plus waiting for implementation only to be told after a year that your request has been descoped. Now you have a “professional” Solution but also some spreadsheets because you actually have a job to do and need these changes and Excel is the only way to do it quickly.

QuesnayJr 7y ago
I once had a temp job where I would take data printed out from a mainframe, and type it into a PC. I asked "Why not download it?" It turned out it was easier to hire someone to type than to get any useful cooperation out of IT.
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