Even Microsoft runs SAP Finance and Microsoft has a lot of ERP/Finance knowledge in house. I guess building a system that supports the scale and specific accounting standards all over the world is a non trivial task.
I work in Enterprise Software and I have experienced multiple times that tech companies first tried to build an administrative back office system and came back to the market two years later as the underestimated the complexity.
>Even Microsoft runs SAP Finance and Microsoft has a lot of ERP/Finance knowledge in house.
So Microsoft dont Dogfood their own Dynamics 365? No wonder why SAP is winning.
>administrative back office system and came back to the market two years later as the underestimated the complexity.
I have lots of first hand experience with it. As a matter of fact I have never seen any modern ERP replacement that works better than the old one. Because the people who do the design input tell software developers how the ERP should work dont have much experience with the actual task. They are mostly manager who thinks they know something but they dont. ERP / CRM to this day is still an unsolved problem for SME. Large Cooperate Enterprise seems to have adopted to SAP already so the skill is now officially "portable" and part of Resume Driven culture.
Last time I checked (6+ years ago) even the top of the range Microsoft ERP products (which called Dynamics AX at the time) was actually pretty limited compared to SAP - in particular it's payroll module only seemed to handle the US.
It's less about confidence in the product and more about having a product that is the right fit for you. Companies like Microsoft are at the very high end of requirements and complexity. Dynamics is more targeted at small to the low end of large enterprise companies.
Who would need a study to state the obvious? In which Universe is a bullying boss help a company? The only example that comes to my mind is when a corporation wants to reduce workforce but doesn’t want to pay severance pay. But this puts people’s health at risk and who in his right mind could want this?
I’m working for a SaaS company who takes very much care of its employees and I’m asking myself if I am just naive...
> In which Universe is a bullying boss help a company?
It is interesting that this question is not studied in a more systematic way. There are situations where having a 'thug' manager is the most effective approach to getting good outcomes. For instance, the same personality that is hard on reports can be very effective in standing up to customers. Viewed from the perspective of the company as a whole, this might be a reasonable economic trade-off, which explains why such a management style would be tolerated.
(Confession: I am a consensus-style manager. The only time I've been fired on a project was a case where my manager judged he needed somebody to crack heads to get the project done. It was painful personally but I think he made the correct decision.)
Even if something seems obvious to you it’s still best to verify it rigorously.
From a cynical point of view a bullying boss might be able to extract more working hours out of employees, or get them to upsell products at places like Best Buy.
Absolutely, 'What everyone knows' has been so frequently wrong throughout history, a few people get ill and suddenly that harmless old lady who lives alone outside the village is on the bonfire...
Humans are terrible at attributing cause and effect without a rigourous way of reproducing it.
Abusive people act abusively because it often gets them what they want at the expense of everything else. An abusive boss might get increased productivity from their subordinates in the short term at the long term expense of the organization itself.
HANA was in the first instance a in memory database - at least partly invented by SAP. Because SAP marketing pushed "in memory" so much, all of the SAP employees believed that HANA was the solution to all problems with SAP software. Therefore SAP named all of its products SAP HANA .... Like SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, etc. Those products were not even related to the in memory database. It's all marketing bullshit and SAP has even taken a few steps back as too many customers were disappointed.
Ultimately I think the HANA database is an overhyped in-memory database. The reason they make money with HANA is that they are successfully replacing Oracle Databases for their SAP on-premise customers.
From my point of view MDM is more and more getting legacy and most corporations have already chosen a MDM platform, MobileIron has to hurry to find a vendor who is late to this market - like Microsoft maybe?
German media/politics currently discusses if Snowden should be offered asylum in Germany. With every new speculation on the whole spying affair, offering Snowden asylum gets more popular in Germany.
This article is really not worth reading - it has no content which is worth the time reading. Only the information that "Samsung is innovating at a faster pace than Apple can" without any evidence of this statement.
I work in Enterprise Software and I have experienced multiple times that tech companies first tried to build an administrative back office system and came back to the market two years later as the underestimated the complexity.