What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) • Hacker News Board

Re: What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

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Post by _glass » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 10:17 AM UTC

slim wrote: post #617

_glass wrote: post #27

I am an SAP developer since kind of forever, my first job after university (since 2009). First I hated it, but the deeper I am entrenched, the more I see why you choose SAP: Because there really is no alternative. The data model is so complex because it is growing iteratively since the 80s. Hacker News is valuing businesses that adjust to the customer instead of going for some kind of purity. Another complexity espec…

any pointers for a good introduction to SAP developement ? I need to integrate with SAP for one of our customers

maybe this one: https://open.sap.com/courses/abap1 In general open.sap.com is the site where you can learn stuff. but depending on your customer's stack it might be different.

Re: What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

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Post by m463 » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 7:28 AM UTC

brightball wrote: post #387

sotix wrote: post #310

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…

I remember years ago a friend worked for sun, involved in SAP installs. He said corporations would overpay to install the highest-end (overpriced?) sun systems to get SAP up and running. Apparently the cost savings of something like currency conversions alone would pay for everything almost immediately. And that was just one facet - other efficiencies (taxation?) would have similar savings.

Re: What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

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Post by boruto » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 11:33 AM UTC

nocubicles wrote: post #41

I've worked as SAP consultant and Developer for around 10 years. Past couple of years Ive moved to Microsoft ERP's and enjoy them better since theres more SMB's using Microsoft products which makes work more variable. But I've written my thoughts about what ERP is: https://www.integrated.ee/posts/the-erp-software/

How does one become an ERP consultant?

You need to get some certifications?