Ask HN: What do you guys think of SAP?

5 points·thewarrior··4 comments

Inspite of being one of the most widely deployed platforms out there and a lot of enterprise software being written for it , you hardly get to see anything about it on HN.

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It's a private technology stack. People here want to be able to see the source code, if not then what're we going to talk about? No sales guys here. Best Regards,

I guess there must be a lot of opportunities in the SAP ecosystem (edit: or replacing said ecosystem), but I haven't seen it myself and it's VERY closed, there isn't even good reference material out there (and official training is quite expensive).

Though I just Googled and it doesn't seem to be that bade anymore, I found they lauched openSAP

https://open.sap.com/

though it doesn't seem to have any useful courses for beginners (I guess they don't want to kill their partners' cash cow)

and an Udemy course

https://www.udemy.com/learn-sap/

In my country learning SAP / ABAP is seen as a fast track to a good salary (if you can find one of the limited job opportunities). I've been passed over for a good opportunity for not knowing SAP basics.

Old and stale. A system build to trap big companies with deep pockets. It's a super efficient business model and the system works but the vision behind the platform is too much 1985, even today.

The way companies around the globe are making and managing business has changed. Even big companies are (slowly) changing.

I believe time is ready for something new.

There are some new things like HANA implemented and developed, but when I worked with BOBJ it was package of several different apps that was acquired.

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