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Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by mrweasel »

dbsmith83 wrote: post #98
dave_sid wrote: post #23

Not Jira. Hahahahaha.

or Confluence, for that matter. Seriously, how can the search be as bad as it is?

In many cases you get the feeling that search might as well not be a feature. You can’t depend on it for location things. It does PDFs sort of okay for some reason.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by haram_masala »

mrweasel wrote: post #121
wenc wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For an on-prem general purpose logging server, it's fast and easy to maintain. The query engine supports fairly complex queries. Did I mention it's fast? Plus it's an industry standard so it's an easier sell in the enterprise. It's also actually not that expensive at low data volumes -- prices are comparable to Sumologic. Cheaper alternatives? You can roll your own logging server with fluentd and a database. Some fol…

The minute you say “on-prem” a surprising number of sales people stop talking and just looks terrified. Running and managing an ELK stack is just a hassle and a managing nightmare conpared to Splunk. Humio is a great alternative, if you need something cheaper, but you have to give up a lot of features.

Seconding this. If you want to do anything sophisticated in the ELK stack, you’ll eventually have to write some scripted indexes, and it’s a very bad joke how hard it is to do that.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by darkr »

* Looker (most usable BI tool I’ve come across so far)

* DataDog (distributed tracing is a dream)

* IntelliJ (idea, goland, pycharm, clion, datagrip)

* MindNode (macOS-only mind-mapping software)

Recently started using smart sheets, but on the fence about this one so far.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by knodi123 »

mongol wrote: post #63
dave_sid wrote: post #23

Not Jira. Hahahahaha.

I think Jira is among the better in the enterprise software class. Compared with ServiceNow (different use case but also enterprice-y) I much much prefer Jira. For example, the URL structure is sane.

assembla is full of endlessly frustrating bugs

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by anjanb »

jokab wrote: post #59

1) nimbletext. when clients send me excel sheets with tons of data to import i would generate insert statements in the sheets themselves. this is a painful experience. Then i found out about nimbletext. its pure joy to use. 2) jailer. I'm a visual kind of guy. so this makes database analysis very easy. 3) onenote. if only it had Linux app i would use it for personal use. 4) visual studio 2019. customized to the bone…

These tools are nice. Please share your other tools as well.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by shoo »

cosmotic wrote: post #80
irrational wrote: post #43

Jetbrains IntelliJ. I use it for html, JS, CSS, Vue, node.js, Python, Java, SQL, etc. I’ve tried visual studio and some other IDEs, but find intellij to be superior in every way.

Although I have the hots for intellij IDEA too, does it count as enterprise?

Good question. I reckon the answer is mixed: some customers are individuals -- where the person who decides to make the purchase is the end user -- some customers are small businesses, while some customers are enterprises. It does appear to have some business & enterprise functionality - at least around how license management works (having some people with permission to manage a pool of licenses for the software that can be granted or withdrawn to individual users in an org). I wonder what fraction of intellij's customers are individuals, small businesses, vs enterprises. My hypothesis is that software that is sold to individuals, where the purchaser is the same as the end user, has more evolutionary pressure not to be awful.

It'd be interesting to ask "what is the best enterprise software you use that is ONLY sold to enterprise customers and never to individuals" as there's more pressure on such software not to be usable.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by jbhatab »

darkr wrote: post #133

* Looker (most usable BI tool I’ve come across so far) * DataDog (distributed tracing is a dream) * IntelliJ (idea, goland, pycharm, clion, datagrip) * MindNode (macOS-only mind-mapping software) Recently started using smart sheets, but on the fence about this one so far.

What other BI platforms have you used? We're looking to build out our BI infrastructure as a service for our customers and are currently testing google data studio but have looked into Sisense + Looker.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by hiyer »

iamwil wrote: post #122
kristopolous wrote: post #119

I've tried not to be impressed by airtable, but their on the fly API documentation generators for how you configure things still feels like black magic. Every time I want to be dismissive of the product, it's exceeded what I believed to be an extremely unlikely to meet set of expectations. They've clearly got some pretty competent people. I'd love to draft them somehow Beyond that, the services of namecheap Ava digit…

what is an on the fly API documentation generator? Is it that you say what your lang and stack is and they tailor the documentation to just the lang and stack you're using?

Airtable generates basic REST APIs for CRUD operations based on your database schema. Perhaps that's what OP is referring to.
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