Microsoft is a black hole of money and talent
hada-ionut.mataroa.blogI don't think this is a problem with just Microsoft. The majority of the hires at Microsoft have been TC optimization Leetcode folks who really aren't good at programming, but are great at optimizing for the FAANG hiring pipeline. Basically they are gamed.
I've been there, worked on poorly built systems and complained about it.
One thing I found is that ranting like TFA makes you sound like you think you're the most amazing engineer and everyone else is stupid. It makes you sound like someone who no one wants to work with.
I've worked with 4 erps in varying capacities from amused observer to in the weeds screen dev (and mainly database administration), 3 of those 4 had custom languages and development environments, including deployments in custom things variously. These three seemed to want to reinvent programming all for their app. I was fascinated by it all. The only erp I worked on that didn't reinvent the wheel was in cobol and there these poor developers failed to use the original wheel invention. One asleep user could halt the company until the system administrator killed the screen process, the concurrency strategy used was "pessimistic" to the extent that the whole system seemed suicidal. It got replaced by erp 2.
Microsoft AX is a beast. I was both fascinated and horrified by it. I took the developer class and loved it but then was so baffled by their source control and deployment, ended up contracting anyways, our desktop dev who also took the course simply found a better job haha, I simply shrank back into my dba role and got fairly familiar with the schema and had developed what I felt were cool and snappy queries that could run without nolock, I am a long time database geek and actually got fired over the nolock keyword, well that and me being an insufferable asshole which was all the rage with dbas at the time hahaha
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/d...
The title is not very fitting.
You mean because there is no talent?
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft Dynamics 365 is an absolutely shit app from the user side too. It's horribly slow, has a nearly unusable UI, uninformative errors, that kind of thing.
The expense reporting side of D365 is especially bad, or maybe it's just my employer's integration of it. It doesn't properly understand currencies or conversion rates, so maybe you'll stay at a hotel in Prague and the expense report page will say $20000 instead of CZK 20000, and then it will write a completely wrong exchange rate, and then refuse to accept the report (with an error in a bar at the top of the screen, but it's modal) until you properly itemize this incorrectly recorded expense down to the last haléř.
I stopped trying to understand dynamics when an accountant mentioned that there was such a thing as a one sided journal entry. I only had a year of accounting in college so I took her word for it. NGL I could have simply misunderstood her so I could be so dumb I can't even talk about journal entries that post to a ledger.
A general purpose, all encompassing ERP system that works for ANY industry
Yeah. That sounds awful
The author makes some great points, I think the biggest one from a business perspective, for anyone who is ever involved with a project that scopes an ERP is how do I get my data out of this thing? AND then, example output! I’ve seen ERPs that are basically impossible to ever get all your data out of, and then others where they export everywhere completely verbose, in CSV based on some C code from 1976 … so then what?
With the shared data backend “dataverse” (previously CDS - Common Data Service) being used for the entire Dynamics platform (ERP, CRM), seemingly being easily accessible, I was under the impression, exporting data was rather easy too.
I only know the platform from a recent D365 CRM POC, so I’d appreciate if you could elaborate on your thougts/experiences.