Dumb question: what is SAP

[expat]

As it's probably in the top 5 of largest software companies in the world it would seem strange for someone who works with software not to know what it is. I think that's where the presumption that you were kidding might have come from.

Strange login, where did you get that from?

[Pondlife]

What's this oracle thingy the guy next to me keeps talking about.

Summat to do with columns I think.

Is it a type of microsoft excel product?

[oracleslave]

What's this oracle thingy the guy next to me keeps talking about.

Summat to do with columns I think.

Is it a type of microsoft excel product?

SAP, stands for Suffer After Purchase

Now OP if you wanted a proper piece of software...

[chef]

What's this oracle thingy the guy next to me keeps talking about.

Summat to do with columns I think.

Is it a type of microsoft excel product?

no it's more like BBC BASIC, it has a black sceen so it must be similar.. i think

[d000hg]

Like I said, I've across SAP as a timesheet system (it was absolutely abysmal). But since there are a lot of high-paying jobs in SAP, I figured it must be something else... I'm a developer so I know nothing about what PMs use, and I am still under the impression SAP is used by PMs.

I'm still not totally sure what a "SAP job" entails, which is really my main question.

[Pondlife]

Like I said, I've across SAP as a timesheet system (it was absolutely abysmal). But since there are a lot of high-paying jobs in SAP, I figured it must be something else... I'm a developer so I know nothing about what PMs use, and I am still under the impression SAP is used by PMs.

I'm still not totally sure what a "SAP job" entails, which is really my main question.

No one does, that's part of the magic. It's a bit like alchemy only newer.

I believe SAP consultants still get burned alive for witchcraft in some south american countries.

[milanbenes]

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Milan.

[oracleslave]

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you want a spade or a jcb for digging that hole ?


Milan.

Who?

[milanbenes]

the thread owner

don't get paranoid son,

Milan.

[ThomasSoerensen]

back in the days when I was a wee auditor for Deloitte I worked on some clients that had SAP - horrible user interface and a drag to get any good data out of - I would forget it - such a user unfriendly system cannot survive in the long run.