alt Hacker NewsThe article is about SAP, Salesforce, etc.
Making your own Google Docs is stupid unless your company's core business is document management.
OTOH Replacing SAP with a bespoke system will make a lot of sense for many companies.
SAP is already the worst of both worlds. It'll have been highly customized for your flow so you've got all of the headaches of bespoke software and all of the headaches of SaaS. And unlike Google Docs, it'll be highly integral to your core business.
Replies
you are aware of the long history of organizations being absolutely screwed by bad erp implementations right? nike's 2001 issue, the horrific birmingham oracle implementation, avon, etc.
what do you mean SAP? like the ERP system?
I would absolutely NEVER steal or rewrite that. So much finanical stuff is baked into the business logic that impacts finance, regulations, hr, etc.
No do not roll your own ERP core.
Roll everything else
Companies pay millions and millions to get away from bespoke software, but not simply because of the costs. Companies want to do their core business, they don't want to also be a software enterprise, and assume all the risks that entails. Even if AI makes creating software 10 times less expensive, that doesn't really change.