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I have to use this at work, so yeah.
The really scary part is, I have gotten used to it and now it doesn't feel so bad anymore.
Stockholm syndrome.
I am a common rube, what is this?
edit: god rube is such a fun word
Maybe you should join together with other rubes and hold a Rubicon.
Best I can offer is a ruby icon 
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.
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
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.
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 type of software that exists only to create a cottage job industry of people who know how to use it.
As someone paid to write code that interacts with D365… I see myself in this meme.
As someone who escaped from that hell, I pity you.
Then I remember that I've now experienced far worst, and Dynamics seem not that vad in retrospect.
Cries in Business Central AL
It's rare that I find fellow BC devs in the wild.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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