taway19920706

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by taway19920706 4y ago
Likewise. I know people who bought helicopters from the money they made during the boom years pre-2000.
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by taway19920706 4y ago
My current workplace has implemented a custom SAP HANA-based solution for forecasting (code is written in a mixture of Python and R). I wasn't involved in the project but I'm not convinced it couldn't have been architected co
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Especially considering Bill McDermott (current CEO) used to be CEO of SAP...
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Trivia time... Back in the 90s Sybase was the only "major" database that SAP didn't support, ostensibly because it didn't support row-level locking, only page-level. Support for SQL Server 6.5 was added in 1993/1994
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Yes, fair point - I didn't explain myself clearly (I've been commenting too much in this thread as it is!). My thinking is that why would they speak up? Lidl has deep pockets so the thinking was probably "another $5/10&#
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by taway19920706 4y ago
It's an interesting observation. SAP has opened up some of their offerings (like OpenUI5) but there's been very little buy-in. Perhaps it's also partly due to the earlier comments from then-SAP CTO Shai Agassi claiming that o
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Jeez, don't mention Gartner. If I see another $%&" "magic quadrant" in my life it'll be too soon.
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by taway19920706 4y ago
As a matter of interest, what's it being replaced with?
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Agreed! SAP's GUI is generally terrible for occasional users (luckily most have now been moved to web-based applications, of varying levels of user friendliness), but in the hands of experienced back office staff it works well. Not pre
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Agree 100% - NIH is a huge thing with SAP, along with very often picking the wrong horse (Silverlight anyone?). They've also built their new PaaS using Cloud Foundry, which I'm not certain about... I'm glad that someone else
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by taway19920706 4y ago
It's the same today - S/4HANA is still accessible from the GUI and DIAG is still used. Web applications (which SAP is pushing customers towards) are freed from this, of course (they talk native http to the SAP application server).
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Agree 100%. The whole "management consulting" industry is rotten and all of the "Big 4/5" accounting firms suck. There are boutique consultancies that do excellent work but so many CIOs will go with Accenture et al.
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Not AFAIK but there are components for governance, risk and compliance, etc. Bit harsh to mention this, but SAP (who run SAP ERP internally, naturally) have not been immune from bribery scandals - https://www.thesouthafrican.com&
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Did the WebGUI really use AJAX in 2003? IIRC the early versions still used the old standalone (AGate/WGate) ITS, not even the integrated version.
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Indeed, for a long time it seemed like SAP didn't "get" cloud. Having to sign long contracts and speak to an account executive to get access to their cloud platform (rebranded every few months, now "Business Technology P
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Implementing SAP in retail has its own challenges. The large number of products ("articles") sold, locations ("sites"), handling POS data etc. My first ever SAP implementation was for a large retailer and the project was
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Hey, keep your hands off Debian! :P (I say this as as retired Debian developer)
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by taway19920706 4y ago
I'm no fan of CAP but I love your YouTube videos - greetings from another NeoVIM fan :)
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Indeed it is. Even when using other development tools (eg, ABAP in Eclipse or the third-party addons for VS Code), the code is still stored in the database and executed from there by the ABAP VM. There's no such thing as "offline
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Not the OP, but my feeling is that you use standardised processes when they are not your core. For example, if you produce a widget using various raw materials, is the way you pay your staff delivering any competitive advantage? Or the MRP
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by taway19920706 4y ago
This. SAP has no restrictions on how much you customise it - you can customise and extend to your heart's content. The problems come during upgrade - SAP has very mature tooling to manage upgrades but a customer who has veered too far
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by taway19920706 4y ago
You would think so, but all of the large consulting firms (Accenture, Deloitte, etc) are driven by billing and people wanting to climb the corporate ladder. What the customer needs comes a distant second. Many projects are staffed with 90-9
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by taway19920706 4y ago
> But it looks like sub-ERP functions (payroll, HR, etc) have been tackled by many companies and they are wildly successful. That's true but TBH, even those that are wildly successful aren't actually that great. I've imple
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by taway19920706 4y ago
SAP is successful because they've spent over 50 years learning how businesses work and somewhat successfully implemented reasonably configurable processes within their software. You need to handle MRP? Check. Multi-country payroll with
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by taway19920706 4y ago
"but why wouldn't you consider that a core part of your business worth investing into" Yes, that's true, and every organization of any size (one sufficiently large enough to implement SAP) will have experts in those doma
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by taway19920706 4y ago
Indeed, to SAP the "partner ecosystem" is a big thing. I think they realised early on that if they were to succeed, their success would be driven by consultants with "business expertise" who were recommending SAP as &quo