I’ve no doubt that you have many anti-Concur club members here! Whenever they make “improvements” it breaks something. Monthly Concur expense reports are torture, possibly being the only part of my job I consistently dislike. Can anyone recommend better alternatives to lobby my company to try?
Software horror show: SAP Concur
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Re: Software horror show: SAP Concur
#122My personal experience so far is that the whole SAP ecosystem is a great way for incompetent people to print money. I’ve worked for companies that ran SAP and paid obscene amounts of money for SAP consultant and developers to write terrible code using their proprietary language. We had this issue with a certain report that was outputting weird values. Company had to pay the partner for support. I’ve skimmed over the…
> I’ve skimmed over the code and it was processing hardcoded index positions. I repeat the person who did that had no concept of a loop. Since the query was returning more than 250 results the remaining rows were being ignored. Unrelated, but this reminds me of a time when I had to write some code in some proprietery programming language in some industrial automation project to program a PLC. The language was similar…
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Re: Software horror show: SAP Concur
#123SAP Concur somehow permanently kills the KeyPassXC extension for me on every browser, every computer. I think that's pretty impressive.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I greatly enjoy my Tesla every time I drive it. I have never enjoyed using SAP or Oracle products.
What are doing in SAP? Supply Chain, Production, Finance? I pitty you if it is logistics...
Right now nothing!!
But have used concur and been parallel to some of the other products…
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#125Concur is indeed a poor system. I suppose the thinking is that by having each employee of a big organization do a small amount of work, they can avoid hiring a central person who just accepts receipts in envelopes and deals with them. Or maybe that by putting up roadblocks like Concur, some employee expenses will not need to be reimbursed. The problem is that this requires educating every employee on how to use these…
When my company needed photos of everyone they announced a new policy and then 10 minutes later sent aggressive emails to each manager asking why they thought it was professional for their subordinates to be out of compliance. We use Concur too.
Re: Software horror show: SAP Concur
#126The real reason is because the stackoverflow copypaste that worked didn’t sort the results.
This stuff drives me crazy as there are people who just don’t care. I can’t imagine ever looking at those results and not doing something simple to make it better.
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#127Try their timesheet function in any browser, much more amazing. Every time you save something, it opens a new tab!!
That's a nice feature considering how much they go out of their way to override the native context menu and disable middle mouse button click so you can't open two expense reports in two tabs.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Come again?
It's an allegory OP is making to express their disdain for anecdotal correlation, illustrated here by the absurdity in which the story of a solution architect making a mistake based on a single case, is itself an anecdotal correlation …the purpose of which is perceived to paint an entire class of people (solution architects) as reactively decisive with incomplete information.
Well, I did talk about one specific solution architect. One that got the fundamental basics of ERP systems wrong. And part of the problem was his superficial, at best, understanding of ERP systems and underlying processes. The last part is ehat said solution architect has in common with the vast majority of commenters under this submission.
Re: Software horror show: SAP Concur
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I’ve skimmed over the code and it was processing hardcoded index positions. I repeat the person who did that had no concept of a loop. Since the query was returning more than 250 results the remaining rows were being ignored. Unrelated, but this reminds me of a time when I had to write some code in some proprietery programming language in some industrial automation project to program a PLC. The language was similar…
That's odd most of these PLC are programmable with IEC 61131-3 languages,e.g. Structured Text which has For-loops. That said i did my fair share of metaprogramming as these usually lack dynamic allocation.
Most PLCs these days support 1131! My whole career in industrial automation was on older PLCs that were produced before 1131 existed. (And long before they added the "6"!) Lots of them are still running factories today. Not one of them supported anything like a for loop. The only loop is the whole program scan loop.
Re: Software horror show: SAP Concur
#130I’ve no doubt that you have many anti-Concur club members here! Whenever they make “improvements” it breaks something. Monthly Concur expense reports are torture, possibly being the only part of my job I consistently dislike. Can anyone recommend better alternatives to lobby my company to try?
> Can anyone recommend better alternatives to lobby my company to try?
A stapler, a letter, a pen, an envelope and a secretary.
That is how I always done it were I worked and it worked flawlessly each time.
During Covid WFH I had to send email and take photos of the recipes so it was abit more cumbersome but I managed to cope.