Posts by lonely at the bottom

Telco giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 staff as part of its turnaround plan

From an insider (laid-off in the previous batch of thousands)

They should ditch their lazy, clueless middle and top-managers and maybe they'll have a chance of recruiting fresh talent. Immediately after, a streamline of thousand of legacy, obsolete, incompatible and chaotic IT applications

It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors

Transformation is a continuous journey, not a lift-and-shift approach

It beats me that a high-ranking official of SAP's user group isn't aware that move to public (or even private) cloud means scrapping of your legacy customizations, minimizing bespoke solutions as much as possible and adopting vendor solutions (SAP's or third-party's) — and this should be done continuously on a day-by-day basis, not once every ten years or so. SAP should be bashed for giving the wrong message here, with a supposedly lift-and-shift approach that isn't working (can you lift a 1970's technology to native cloud?) when a major overhaul is needed instead. Actually, an industry wide problem is that vendors sugar-coat their products and downplay the strong governance and transformation needed to eventually get to cloud from a legacy environment.

SAP hits 50: Entrenched, spread out and fully middle-aged

Re: SAPGUI really stank

True, the infamous "three-layer architecture" is no more than good-old 1970's mainframe repackaged as client-server, when in reality a single, monolithic block of code exists behind the scenes, controlling both the front-end device, the business logic and the database via SQL statements submitted to the partner's DBMS. This is also every traditional player's primary problem for bringing into cloud the legacy applications, it would need a rewrite from scratch to deploy cloud-native applications (thus the shopping spree) or alternatively the much more difficult task of separating the concerns, decoupling application components, provisioning of APIs etc. I am surprised they have done so little through the years in that context and only recently it was addressed by CEO Klein.