SAP ain't Xerox though. The idea of SAP hiring a bunch of maverick UI geniuses is pretty mind-boggling.
This is a company whose products are almost the complete antithesis of good UI design (they're also the antithesis of software integration you don't customize their software for your organization, you customize your organization for their software). If there's one corporate software experience I've had that was worse than Lotus Notes, it's being forced to use SAP (and at the time I was also being forced to use Perforce for a marketing website).
I guess this is a sign SAP (or someone at SAP) at least recognizes they're got a real problem, but I doubt they'll be able to turn that boat around.
The idea of SAP hiring a bunch of maverick UI geniuses is pretty mind-boggling.
Except that in the late 90's they did exactly that. They brought in Frog and what they produced was quite exceptional given the state of native UI at the time.
Not saying SAP is the paragon of innovation, just that even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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SAP ain't Xerox though. The idea of SAP hiring a bunch of maverick UI geniuses is pretty mind-boggling.
This is a company whose products are almost the complete antithesis of good UI design (they're also the antithesis of software integration you don't customize their software for your organization, you customize your organization for their software). If there's one corporate software experience I've had that was worse than Lotus Notes, it's being forced to use SAP (and at the time I was also being forced to use Perforce for a marketing website).
I guess this is a sign SAP (or someone at SAP) at least recognizes they're got a real problem, but I doubt they'll be able to turn that boat around.
Except that in the late 90's they did exactly that. They brought in Frog and what they produced was quite exceptional given the state of native UI at the time.
Not saying SAP is the paragon of innovation, just that even a broken clock is right twice a day.