Salesforce is charging my company 1000 euros per month per sale person for what appears to be a rather simple crm. SAP is charging hundreds of thousands of euros for an ERP that is anyway too complex for small businesses.
Maybe it is me, but I believe the real problem is that start ups don't take the time to understand the businesses they want to disrupt. They like to discuss about scalability, nosql, complex software stuff, but guess what, probably a simple application in mysql that does know the business is worth 1000 times more.
And just to give a practical example about my point, look at how much discussion has generated a rather simple problem on linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/89ocf8x.
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Salesforce is charging my company 1000 euros per month per sale person for what appears to be a rather simple crm. SAP is charging hundreds of thousands of euros for an ERP that is anyway too complex for small businesses.
Maybe it is me, but I believe the real problem is that start ups don't take the time to understand the businesses they want to disrupt. They like to discuss about scalability, nosql, complex software stuff, but guess what, probably a simple application in mysql that does know the business is worth 1000 times more.
And just to give a practical example about my point, look at how much discussion has generated a rather simple problem on linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/89ocf8x.