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It's a software suite for managing company finances, but can do way, way more if you keep slapping bullshit on it. You can run a retail operation through it, for example.
It's a big, irritating "do anything financial for any type of business" app, and like most "all in one" tools is horribly over and under designed.
Working with it is brittle, stupid, complicated and expensive.
Still don't get what it does, but at least you made it abundantly clear that I don't want to know more. Thanks!
Sounds like SAP.
Having worked with both, SAP if by far the worst of the two.
But Sage is another league. Want an API? Sure, here you go. Oh, you want it to do something usefull? I'm afraid we can't do that.
It's so bad their client ask actual third parties to create custom APIs to be able to actualy do something.
If you are lucky you'll have a good third party, if your're not you'll be like me, trying to do something without any docs, and api datapoints that make no sense unless you have said missing docs.
Those fuckers can't even chose what format to give to their id. Sometimes it is a string with a lenght of 7, sometime 13, sometimes an int.
Sounds much like PowerBI, which I can't say I've used much directly. But every time we use it, because the client likes the idea and it can theoretically do "all the business intelligence" natively...we eventually find it can only do 80% of what they actually want, which completely removes its single advantage and forces us to go custom anyway. We've stopped offering it, to be clear.
I’ve seen a factory being shoehorned into using it. Maintenance planning and all.
Needless to say that its not working out well.
and, ime, it takes a full second to open any dropdown menu
Interesting. How does it compare to ms Access (in the 90s I guess)?
Drastically different products. Its basically a full ERP with a full CRM build in. It massively outsizes Access, a DB/DBMS, in both complexity and abject stupidity.
Access is also a full "cms" for constructing program interfaces, ui.
I have seen fully fledged programs written in it, and it wasn't pretty.
Dynamics sounds like it is "excel/sql with data analysis strapped on", where access was "excel/sql with frontpage strapped on"
The scale is different. Dynamics is mainly an ERP like Sage or SAP. It's something you could coordinate the movement of millions of goods through, and tens of thousands of people.
Access is a database with a GUI that you can slap more GUIs onto at your own peril. Dynamics is an iteration of " Microsoft Great plains" that was turned into an unholy monstrosity to compete with Oracle/IBM, etc
You will spend millions of dollars deploying it. It will both be bewildering too much and not enough.