What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
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#4ERP industry is so hard(painful) that I wouldnt want to work in it unless they paid top of the top
Good luck competing in that industry
> basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables. In those tables, there are ~8,000 configuration decisions you need before even getting started.
Gotta be fun :)
Re: What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
#5You can copy off my homework, but just this once
1) They do Enterprise Resources Planning.
2) Because ERP is immensely complicated, and encompasses features that would be useful for almost anyone coordinating any organization, and ERP systems are really hard to change, so they have acquired a user base with lots of zeroes and a thick moat to keep them in.
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#7ERP industry is so hard(painful) that I wouldnt want to work in it unless they paid top of the top Good luck competing in that industry > basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables. In those tables, there are ~8,000 configuration decisions you need before even getting started. Gotta be fun :)
Microsoft at one point wanted to become a full featured IT department for companies. From managing their infrastructures, active directory, issuing laptops, but also providing basic erp, kind of salesforce like. I am not sure where they went with that but it certainly an idea that has merit. A small or medium size company should probably outsource its IT department except for the parts that are specific to their business.
ERP are the mother of all vendor lockin for large companies. Not only you need to configure it, but you need to integrate it with the thousands of internal systems.
Re: What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
#8A vendor lock-in nightmare. Once you are in it would financially destroy you to get out in most cases.
Re: What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
#9> Data processing – an outdated term whose lasting legacy is
Automatic Data Processing, Inc’s name – is what we’d call IT today.
Ha!
"This International Standard does not specify — the mechanism by which C programs are transformed for use by a data-processing system;" [ISO C, every version]
Re: What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
#10This is a good time to remind everyone of the rules of SAP integration:
1) Your company processes MUST adapt to SAP processes.
That's it.
You can try customising SAP to fit your processes, but you will just waste time and hundreds of millions of money and then you will fail.
Lidl spent almost a decade and 500M€ on its SAP project, but didn't follow rule #1: https://www.henricodolfing.com/2020/05/case-study-lidl-sap-d...