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>Why is SAP successful? Because the general purpose tools (or worse, amalgamations of multiple single-purpose tools) that came before were absolute shit, and SA

>Why is SAP successful? Because the general purpose tools (or worse, amalgamations of multiple single-purpose tools) that came before were absolute shit, and SAP is instead only difficult to use. The people who are hurt by it are not the people deciding to buy it. SAP looks great for Csuite executives when it produces reports. For an engineer trying to enter their hours it's an hours long torture session every two weeks.

CountSessine 4y ago
This is the very definition of enterprise software - the people who buy it are not the same people who use it.
- petesergeant 4y ago
  Same with kid's toys, the difference being that feedback for kid's toys to the purchaser is immediate and painful if the wrong option is selected
  - ngrilly 4y ago
    Spot on! Clearly something you can’t write if you don’t have kids yourself :)
  - kubanczyk 4y ago
    Nah. Same outcome, they just shelve it and it's end of story.
hef19898 4y ago
You do onow that SAP does much more than booking your hours on a project, yes?