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> I'm looking at you JIRA... I always see this comment on HN, I think I have been using Jira for a decade, never really had any major complaints.
If you guys think JIRA is bad you should check out BMC Remedy...
Gartner has at least one thing down that I believe is “the way” - they call it “postmodern ERP”. [0] In a postmodern ERP there is no ERP. It’s a strategy where you accept that different domains and companies know their business and processes best and you integrate best of breed systems & services with homegrown solutions. You trade the convenience of letting SAP or Salesforce own your processes against flexibility an…
Jeez, don't mention Gartner. If I see another $%&" "magic quadrant" in my life it'll be too soon.
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PeopleSoft is now replaced by Workday.
PeopleSoft became part of Oracle (and now uses the Oracle brand) and some of their people left and founded Workday.
At least my company auto books the flights out of their slush funds as opposed to me needing to buy it and get reimbursed :puking_emoji:
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I don't think we need a study to show the obvious outcome when you set up incentives in certain ways.
Then we're no longer making evidence-based policy. That's just hypothesis-based policy. And unfortunately, humans are reallllly good at rationalizing whatever hypothesis suits their biases.
Bookmarked the article for later but isn't SAP like just a more powerful version of Workday?
I worked in public accounting with some major corporations as clients. Every single company I interacted with used SAP. It is the de facto software in its field and is deeply entrenched. Its UX is the most horribly wicked thing I’ve ever come across. We would conduct walkthroughs with process control owners that showed us what they would do in SAP to perform their job functions, and it would take multiple, intelligen…
20 years ago I was a grad assistant for a couple of professors who'd built a pretty incredible JIT supply chain platform. The US Army started using it to manage their uniform orders and it worked so well that two entire warehouses were torn down due to lack of use. A new general came in and insisted on using SAP. 6 months later, they had to rebuild both warehouses. EDIT: For some additional context, the system manage…
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Here's a link to a report that has a lot more information about the system: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA393599.pdf
How in the world did y’all find that? I saw it posted below. The system was/is called Balanced Flow.