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Think Oracle, with business logic on top. (JDEdwards, Oracle, SAP) were the OGs of BI. (and bloat, and McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+) -- They

Think Oracle, with business logic on top. (JDEdwards, Oracle, SAP) were the OGs of BI. (and bloat, and McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+) -- They are old school, entrenched, but yu would jump off a cliff supporting any of this legacy stuff. It will persist as the inertia on huge systems is heavy. But yeah - I wonder if they are signing any NEW business... aside from military bunker grade stuff (which will cost as much as the bunker to implement) I dont see a reason to implement (not because I am bashing, but because I dont know the modern business case reqs that would call for SAP)

rendall 5y ago
> McKinsey infiltration into... What is McKinsey infiltration?
- n3k5 5y ago
  I don't know about “McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+” first-hand, but from context I'd guess it's simply getting consultants from McKinsey & Company[0] jobs in the ‘infiltrated’ firm, on the basis that it has no in-house employees capable of properly setting up / running the bizarrely complex and idiosyncratic SCM-ERP-HCM-BI-etc. software in question. Basically: You have a problem; Oracle/SAP says they'll solve it for you. Now you have a second problem; they say McKinsey'll solve it for you. Now you have … [0] https://mckinsey.com https://mckinsey.com
- samstave 5y ago
  Its the cancer that permeates your C-Suite. Meta-stasize-ing, God I love etymology: "-Stasize" **To stand on a hilltop once. To be, this time, on advance. To reach the highest clouds. To touch the limits of space. To out-grow skyscrapers. And make them look at my face.** --- So FB is becoming a meta-stacious being.. That which wishes to control from a vantage, or t corrupt from within the minds... The light house.
sveme 5y ago
Google switched to SAP two years or so ago.
- cerved 5y ago
  switched what?
  - RedNifre 5y ago
    The company.
    - anticensor 5y ago
      I would have expected something like ABC CRM, tailored to Google.

rendall 5y ago

> McKinsey infiltration into... What is McKinsey infiltration?

n3k5 5y ago
I don't know about “McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+” first-hand, but from context I'd guess it's simply getting consultants from McKinsey & Company[0] jobs in the ‘infiltrated’ firm, on the basis that it has no in-house employees capable of properly setting up / running the bizarrely complex and idiosyncratic SCM-ERP-HCM-BI-etc. software in question. Basically: You have a problem; Oracle/SAP says they'll solve it for you. Now you have a second problem; they say McKinsey'll solve it for you. Now you have … [0] https://mckinsey.com https://mckinsey.com
samstave 5y ago
Its the cancer that permeates your C-Suite. Meta-stasize-ing, God I love etymology: "-Stasize" **To stand on a hilltop once. To be, this time, on advance. To reach the highest clouds. To touch the limits of space. To out-grow skyscrapers. And make them look at my face.** --- So FB is becoming a meta-stacious being.. That which wishes to control from a vantage, or t corrupt from within the minds... The light house.

sveme 5y ago

Google switched to SAP two years or so ago.

cerved 5y ago
switched what?
- RedNifre 5y ago
  The company.
  - anticensor 5y ago
    I would have expected something like ABC CRM, tailored to Google.