What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?
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@momurda said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@marcinozga Company i work for just bought GlobalShop. I wasnt consulted about the decision at all, then they asked me to install the server and client. Ive got it working on Server 2012 running on top of Xenserver no problems. That client though, wow. Cant be installed automatically. Needs manual input like a dozen times during the install.
Still, so far is better than what theyve been using for the last 20 years(Excel spreadsheets and Parts&Vendors).Can you tell me about the industry and what this app does? Does it have any competition of note?
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@jaredbusch said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
For most of the SMB, the LoB app is the an all in one ERP, CRM, Accounting, etc type of application.
That's what I expect. Most of these that I've run into are heavily integrated "your whole business in one app" types of things that pretty much oversee their basic operations.
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@momurda said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@marcinozga Company i work for just bought GlobalShop. I wasnt consulted about the decision at all, then they asked me to install the server and client. Ive got it working on Server 2012 running on top of Xenserver no problems. That client though, wow. Cant be installed automatically. Needs manual input like a dozen times during the install.
Still, so far is better than what theyve been using for the last 20 years(Excel spreadsheets and Parts&Vendors).Oh it will work on any virtualization platform, it's just Global Shop support is free to tell you to pound sand when you have issues, because you're using non-Vmware hypervisor, that's all. I wouldn't be so sure about being better than excel part though...
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The VMWare 'thick' client, and the VMWare flash anything. Also, IE9 is still being used.
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@grey said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
The VMWare 'thick' client, and the VMWare flash anything. Also, IE9 is still being used.
Argh, LOB apps, not IT tool sets! I know all the IT stuff that is problematic.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@grey said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
The VMWare 'thick' client, and the VMWare flash anything. Also, IE9 is still being used.
Argh, LOB apps, not IT tool sets! I know all the IT stuff that is problematic.
I relish any chance I get to vent about these items. http://corz.org/blog/inc/smileys/cool.gif
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@grey said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@scottalanmiller said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@grey said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
The VMWare 'thick' client, and the VMWare flash anything. Also, IE9 is still being used.
Argh, LOB apps, not IT tool sets! I know all the IT stuff that is problematic.
I relish any chance I get to vent about these items. http://corz.org/blog/inc/smileys/cool.gif
You sound like me and Intuit!
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@travisdh1 said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@grey said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@scottalanmiller said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@grey said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
The VMWare 'thick' client, and the VMWare flash anything. Also, IE9 is still being used.
Argh, LOB apps, not IT tool sets! I know all the IT stuff that is problematic.
I relish any chance I get to vent about these items. http://corz.org/blog/inc/smileys/cool.gif
You sound like me and Intuit!
And now you've brought back painful memories that I thought were long buried. Jerk!
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@marcinozga said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
One more, UPS Worldship. While you can do your shipments online, interface is just terrible. While this app supports remote clients, you cannot install it on Windows server, at least it's unsupported, I haven't personally tried.
So Terrible.
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It's been a while since I worked on it, but the liquor distributors were more or less forced to use a crappy ERP/Inventory software from the manufacturers. Can't recall the name of it now.
Also, my HVAC client uses the a quoting tool that comes from one of the HVAC manufacturers, not sure if they ever looked for an independent solution - but that would require a ton of time setting up the parts dependencies, etc, which would likely put the cost outside of usability.
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@marcinozga said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
One more, UPS Worldship. While you can do your shipments online, interface is just terrible. While this app supports remote clients, you cannot install it on Windows server, at least it's unsupported, I haven't personally tried.
Oh, I've already purged the memories of FedEx's Ship Manager. Just as bad.
