Readit NewsDisagree with this. In the places I’ve worked, I’ve lost count of the number of times we turned down feature requests with the explanation that - this isn’t common practice and seems to be unique to you.
And something that most people in an enterprise are just not all that interested in, since they’re never judged on how pleasant the software they deliver is to use.
Hell, they not ever see any of the users interacting with the software. I’ve been at $ENTERPRISE for 7 years, and I’ve visited our users exactly once.
And yes we were judged on how pleasant to use our software was. If we miss a feature or ship a feature that customers intensely dislike, best believe that we’ll get a torrent of negative feedback on our support channels
2) I didn't change the policy on the workspace email when I signed up for it
The point is still - why ask me to authenticate via different methods and then reject them after I've correctly authenticated? If some policy is overriding these, then you shouldn't have asked me to authenticate via those methods in the first place.
More than once, I was in a different country and tried logging into a workspace gmail account. Google flags it as a strange activity (fair enough) and needs to authenticate me. It asks me to enter the complete address for my recovery email (I do this), it sends me a code to use for sign in (I do this) but it still refuses to sign me and says it can't authenticate me. It says I need to sign in from a location that I've signed in from before.
So, for the period that I was out of the country, I couldn't access my email. This happened each time I'm in a new country. My only work around was to sign in to my email (on my laptop) before traveling and not sign out (for security reasons, I don't like to do this).
Something similar happened when I used a new laptop.
I just don't understand this. What then is the point of having recovery email and phone number if you won't use them?
Literally every ERP sales process includes an "oh you can customize the edge cases to your needs!", but rarely is that a good idea.
This isn’t what you think.
First, large ERP vendors will repeat the mantra that you shouldn’t customize and that they don’t advise it. At best, implementation consultants will be the one talking about customizing.
Secondly, ERP sales process isn’t as simple as you think. Buying firm have a detailed and documented list of requirements and these are checked off as they’re being demoed. If customization is needed, that specific customization needs to be shown before that item requirement is checked off.
Yes, there are times when processes/procedures are truly unique to a firm but it usually isn’t and the firm can ‘standardize’ their process so that it fits into the ERP flow.
These ERPs are usually shipped to handle common/different scenarios/usecases and clients simply have to configure them accordingly (configuration is totally different from trying to customize)
$163,000,000 spent and nothing to show for it. Of course, Oracle / SAP have absurdly powerful contracts that basically bail them out of any accountability. This is despite both of them being notorious for overruns on their projects, especially government deployments.
From a survey, 47% of ERP projects have budget overruns.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/526423/worldwide-erp-imp...
When you have this many problems in government deployments, it goes from "oopsie doopsie" to "government budget milking machine - working as intended"
If you used consultants for the implementation, how is a botched rollout the ERP vendors fault?
This article says …… The council initially customized Oracle but now plans to reimplement the software out-of-the-box, adopting standardized processes..….
The above tells you the issue isn’t from Oracle the ERP vendor.
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I would also say that painful, unduly costly implementations seem pretty standard for ERP products. I have heard such stories about SAP.
I later started using Gemini but I use it without signing in to try to ensure my privacy.
I recently came across this App [0] and I've been trying/using it. I end up going back to Gemini if what I need is quite complicated but it's not that common these days.
[0] https://ai.nocommandline.com