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Concur talked to us to use our autocomplete DB in their "new" UI because we had better results. We were using the population size of the location to sort bigger place first.
In the end it never went beyond that one call. I think they already had multiple team working on this, not necessary together (there was a big rewrite going full force with micro-service going on).
We actually joke around the area where SAP is located (Walldorf, Germany). In surrounding cities devs joke about the fact that there are literally dozens if not hundreds of web agencies doing nothing more than mobile/tablet ready SAP user interfaces. That's their only business model. I'm not kidding you, there's an entire ecosystem around the fact that SAP UI5 is so crap that people cannot use it on their smartphones…
> I don't even know how to rationalize this anymore. Enterprise IT is like that because the buyer never uses it and often assumes anyone complaining is just whiny/lazy. A previous employer had a massive outage with an expensive ’Orrible reporting application: down for weeks, developers expecting them to repair corrupted data, etc. They paid many millions of dollars to license that app and millions more for “support”,…
No software is perfect. Not even the one which flew Boeing 747, thats why they had 3 services coded by 3 different teams running on 3 different brand processors and the system takes the 2 matching entries as the truth. Even micro processors are not immune to long running bugs. Picking one small thing and demonising a whole team is unfair for them and the company. Sounds like much ado about nothing.
Is there some open source software system that does similar things?
I'm the one who raises flags that are neatly placed in the furthest down regions of backlogs nice to have sections.
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That’s for the golf course. Same as IBM: The business model is they mostly sell golf courses, and software is a side-effect so they have to save on that.
Are you just making stuff up?
We actually joke around the area where SAP is located (Walldorf, Germany). In surrounding cities devs joke about the fact that there are literally dozens if not hundreds of web agencies doing nothing more than mobile/tablet ready SAP user interfaces. That's their only business model. I'm not kidding you, there's an entire ecosystem around the fact that SAP UI5 is so crap that people cannot use it on their smartphones…
> I don't even know how to rationalize this anymore. Bad UI doesn't matter, while the company's exec is golfing with the sales rep from SAP. And after the deal is done the exec has an assistant responsible for filing expenses etc. What then counts for the exec are the reporting features, where somebody can send them a nice report on all the expense bookings, accounted for tax and all those complicated things, and agr…
So the near universal consensus from the technical community is that SAP makes crap software. Yet here we are obsessing over monads while they laugh all the way to the bank. So what’s the lesson? Maybe good software is a waste of time and smart money just focuses on the marketing. Unfortunately that’s what I’ve seen over many years.
Opinion: SAP focused on the buyer, not the user. I see this in technical software sales all the time: vendors have an X, so they target the team that might X or currently use the inferior Y when they could be using X. But in reality, those people are rarely if ever the buyer, as in, the person who has the budget and the authority to actually issue a PO. In the size of company that uses an ERP, that person is not goin…
I am a bit disappointed, was expecting something way worse for "horror". Maybe the horrors are on the bugs he hasn't mentioned but had to put up with. One possible excuse for SAP Concur here, and I am just guessing, is that the sorting is in some kind of customer-specific config setting that the admin needs to setup. I.e. they made it configurable for each client's needs. If you don't set it up it defaults to this "u…
This sorting by country and city never worked, it didn't work during my time at Microsoft in 2014 (they replaced it with their own mstravel tool thankfully), nor did it work at SAP in 2018. I frequently travelled from Berlin to Walldorf (in Germany obviously) and it always picked Berlin in Arizona (IIRC?) first. Walldorf it eventually got right, but I do strongly believe somebody just hacked this into first place in the frontend.