Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI teach enterprise systems at a university, with emphasis on SAP. It's hideous. Hideous. My students complain it is unusable (agree), doesn't make sense (agree), that they can't see the point (agree). When you look at the underlying database 'schema' (inverted commas deliberate) you'll find it's a massive, denormalised mess. Much of what SAP can do can be done at the local level using intuitive software. Reports, for example, against a well-designed schema or data warehouse are easy. Power BI…
I worked in public accounting with some major corporations as clients. Every single company I interacted with used SAP. It is the de facto software in its field and is deeply entrenched. Its UX is the most horribly wicked thing I’ve ever come across. We would conduct walkthroughs with process control owners that showed us what they would do in SAP to perform their job functions, and it would take multiple, intelligent people to capture all of the processes. The…
Saw the post on What is Salesforce? And immediately thought about SAP. Looks like the folks over at http://retool.com have one for SAP as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016600
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 2181
- Total comments
- 1288
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-05 | What's SAP?First breakout · Best thread | dvdhsu | 1221 | 600 |
| 2021-05-03 | What Is SAP? (2020) | antoniuschan99 | 3 | 2 |
| 2022-04-17 | What’s SAP? | rsecora | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-09-09 | What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)Latest 20+ point return | antonyl | 955 | 686 |