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In enterprises, the biggest competitor to any 2nd+ gen business system is Excel!
by flarg 6y ago
In enterprises, the biggest competitor to any 2nd+ gen business system is Excel!
- toyg 6y agoAnd the undisputed beloved incumbent. People will be annoyed by your attempt to unseat it. It's like trying to persuade alcoholics to switch from boxed wine to vintage bottles.
- dagw 6y agoIt's like trying to persuade alcoholics to switch from boxed wine to vintage bottles. So switching to something 10-100 times more expensive that doesn't actually perform any better in any of the areas you care about? Yea that does sound like a lot of enterprise software I've seen.
- toyg 6y agoIndeed. Even when the wine is objectively superior in many respects, are those the issues you really care about? How marked is the difference? Your fine bottle might have taken decades to nail a specific tone or quality, but if you are just trying to get sloshed and tomorrow you'll have forgotten everything about it, the boxed stuff will do just fine. That's the challenge for business software - to be so much better than Excel that people will be willing to move on.
- sumtechguy 6y agoIoT and home usage of it is the same boat. They always like to sell turn the lights on and off from my phone (for a small monthly fee of course). When a 2 dollar toggle switch still does the job for decades and does not need the internet.
- rzzzt 6y agoAdd a window frame around it, embed with COM, all done before lunch break.
- davio 6y agoThat was the preferred tool for our finance people at a Fortune 600 sized corporation. I think it was an example from a MSDN article on using ActiveX controls to embed Excel. Give the people what they want... I think some IE version upgrade killed it and we had to spend over a million to get an enterprise replacement that everyone hated