What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job?
I've worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
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I've worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
What gets me is the price you pay in order to get the abuse of a product that never quite works well enough to be "finished", and then you get to pay consultants for years to overcome it's shortfalls. This is a classic C-suite boondoggle that nobody can get around to admitting was a complete waste of money and it's so expensive that nobody can survive flushing the sunk cost of by getting out. And then it's intertwined in the ERP of so many supply chains that you can't not use it because every company above and below uses it (and hates it) so you have to implement it for the B2B interoperability.
It's a horrendous chain of inevitability, and IBM is laughing all the way to the bank.
SAP is not owned by IBM, no?
My bad, I always dealt with IBM consultants on SAP sites so I assumed it was shitty enough to be an IBM product. I guess not, it's its own little island of shittiness. But according to Wikipedia, it was started as an IBM project inherited from Xerox and carried on by the 5 engineers at IBM that were on it when it was cancelled and they left to continue with it. So there is a genetic background showing that the shit acorn doesn't fall far from the shit tree.
So it's so bad that even IBM abandoned it!