johnappleby

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Why does the tech community hate Enterprise IT?(peopleprocesstech.com)
3 points by johnappleby 15y ago|0 comments
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by johnappleby 15y ago
I think what you are saying can be true, depending on the sales exec. What can also be true is they are looking to build a long term relationship. It varies from person to person unfortunately. What you describe is a classic large Systems I
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by johnappleby 15y ago
Yes I am very lonely here, but it's interesting. I'd love to bring the tech and enterprise it crowds together and learn that we're really not that different. Oracle is much worse from a sales/license perspective and a lot of my SAP customer
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by johnappleby 15y ago
It's true that SAP ERP could really do with a better interface (and it does, for the consumer end of the market by the way). But SAP ERP is bought by people who enjoy the business benefit (increased revenue, decreased cost) rather than by t
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by johnappleby 15y ago
The answer is pretty simple: companies that implement ERPs save money and are more successful. It's the business change aspect that matters, and SAP enables that business change. Totally agree with you on the UX nightmares, and this needs t
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by johnappleby 15y ago
Can't argue - it was a reactionary response, such is the way of social media, right? I think that the underlying discussion is an interesting one. HN readers perhaps might get some benefit from understanding SAP technologies and how they in
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by johnappleby 15y ago
Come now, I didn't say that FB is insignificant. That would be ignoring the biggest social trend in the 21st century! What I'm saying is that the consumer press community spends 99% of its time talking about FB et al., who are interesting,
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by johnappleby 15y ago
For sure, and I'm open and honest about that :) I would like to say a few things though, especially to those people who think that it's an us and them scenario. First, I have personally spent a lot of time on open source software, and you w
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by johnappleby 15y ago
I think this is definitely traditionally true, and there are people making big bucks in the SAP space - contract rates can be high for geniuses. What's changing is that open standards mean that the wider tech community can integrate into SA
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by johnappleby 15y ago
I hear you. SAP suck at that stuff. The problem with SAP is it's so complicated, you can do anything you like. And so, it becomes hard to explain. Not sure what the solution to that is. SAP has a new CMO, Jonathan Becher, who I hope will br
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by johnappleby 15y ago
Yes, Apple's iTunes store system of record runs on a custom SAP ABAP based system. It used to run SAP ERP but that could not take the load of transactions. As I understand it, this is the reason why you get a weekly bill from Apple: the iTu
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by johnappleby 15y ago
I love the comments but this is exactly the stuff I was talking about in this article. I'd love to show the wider tech audience a bit more about SAP and how it works. Guess that can be my project for 2012. 1) Yes, you can download a trial v
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by johnappleby 15y ago
Interesting comparison and let's be fair: Facebook's EBIT (which is the real financial comparison) is pretty decent. SAP's EBIT was pretty low in 2010 - expect it to increase in 2011 based on preliminary results. Main point is FB's financia