What's SAP?

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Post by dvdhsu » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 7:31 AM UTC

What's SAP?
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Re: What's SAP?

#2

Post by mac_was » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 7:59 AM UTC

SAP is the ultimate B2B and turning into saas, should be the wet dream of every dev who wants to build his own saas.

Re: What's SAP?

#3

Post by JackPoach » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 8:03 AM UTC

That's actually a very well written article. I never imagined an article about SAP or ERP would be interesting to read.

Re: What's SAP?

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Post by diminish » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 8:07 AM UTC

Some consultant had told "Adopting an ERP (SAP, Oracle or other) is a stronger bond than marriage". So those valuations could be strong and long term.

Re: What's SAP?

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Post by hanniabu » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 8:09 AM UTC

SAP wouldn't be that disheartening to use if it weren't so damn slow and if UI/UX wasn't from the 90s.

Re: What's SAP?

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Post by oaiey » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 8:11 AM UTC

mac_was wrote: post #2

SAP is the ultimate B2B and turning into saas, should be the wet dream of every dev who wants to build his own saas.

Until you know the internals of SAP ;). They have/had an own programming language (ABAP) which is the worst combination of BASIC and SQL you could imagine. Do not know the status in 2020, 2007 it was still a combination of ABAP and Java.

Interestingly, the source code of SAP is openly readable (once you have their software installed).

Re: What's SAP?

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Post by dvdhsu » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 8:11 AM UTC

Hi! (I'm one of the editors of this post.) When I was researching SAP, I found a fact sheet: https://www.sap.com/docs/download/2017/04/4666ecdd-b67c-0010..., that has quite a few interesting facts:

* "[SAP] customers distribute 78% of the world’s food and 82% of the world’s medical devices"

* "[SAP] customers include 98% of the 100 most valued brands"

* "77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system"

Wow!

Re: What's SAP?

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Post by pojntfx » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 8:12 AM UTC

SAP is the worst software I've ever used in my entire life; they literally have to publish paid books on how to use it, that's how bad it is.

Re: What's SAP?

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Post by spectramax » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 8:13 AM UTC

hanniabu wrote: post #5

SAP wouldn't be that disheartening to use if it weren't so damn slow and if UI/UX wasn't from the 90s.

I love the SAP UI - yea, its the 90's when UI was far superior than today's whitespace filled, shadow-less buttons, complete lack of skeumorphic elements, magenta gradients and huge typography - See Windows 95 UI: https://twitter.com/tuomassalo/status/978717292023500805

It is dense, extremely clear and consice. I agree with the slowness though.

Re: What's SAP?

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Post by trollied » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 8:14 AM UTC

SAP is shocking.

I'm so glad that I now work with NetSuite!