Why does everything on the SAP ag platform run so slow.

[Fordiesel69]

A company I work for has been using SAP for one division, and recently transfered their other division over this year, and I was curious why the performance is so miserable. Other companys use it as well, and it is slow for them, which makes me question why people chose to use them. Im talking stuff that should be as fast was lifting off your mouse button responding is how modern day systems should work. Not sap, you get to watch an animation for a long time.

Any thoughts?

 

[dishdude]

I know this isn't helpful, but I hate SAP!!!!!!!!!

 

[SwampSurvivor]

There's a lot of back end transactions happening with large scale ERP solutions like SAP, Oracle.

It accesses and handles *all* of the company transactions - accounting, payroll, inventory, orders,etc.

It's doing so much that they can be slow. Of course there's tuning that can be done and possibly throwing more hardware at the problem is always an option ...

 

[JeffKeryk]

SAP.... Where do I start? Well, it is built on 80's architecture. You need a powerful dB. DO NOT skimp on hardware; it is generally the cheapest part of ERP.

Nowadays cloud based solutions make sense because it is easier to resize your installation.

But SAP is old; it's big, and you have to "feed the beast" as they say.

I've done several installations and major upgrades. Built interfaces. If I only worked on SAP (or Oracle) my career would have been a huge terrible chore. But that's just me.

 

[RoadDukie]

Any project I worked on that involved SAP had me sitting in a corner sucking my thumb after two hours. There wasn't anything they had/did that I liked!

Just reading your thread title sent shivers down my spine... Really!

 

[Number_35]

Through good or bad timing, I could never decide which, I was thrown into the deep end at work back in 1998, and became the department's SAP expert (in relative terms).

Over the next 20 years I earned a lot of money working on SAP.

 

[ripcord]

From a developer's standpoint, SAP stands for Suffering And Pain... From a business executive standpoint SAP stands for Shut up and Pay!

For a lot of things in the business world, it's the 800 pound gorilla. You just need 800 pound gorilla hardware to make it run quickly.

 

[andrew_j]

It’s implementation specific .

Many modern UI are slow in the back however you send a message do something , it says processing and takes time and let’s you move on and eventually that process finishes and sends a message back and web/app developer can update request status to user.

The old clients just waited.

My starting career has been working with antique systems like that and adding a simple system(web page) in front that allows function to run lighting fast to user and they move on with their day.

 

[jhellwig]

I would guess all the hardware and security stuff that the info goes through might be some issue.

I have used ASAP, SAP and now JDE. They are only as good as the data that is put in them. Put in a lot of unorganized garbage and it takes more time to sort through it.

 

[KGMtech]

Spent 1 month of 2013 in Southern Germany getting trained at Head Office on SAP, we were to be the 4th location to switch from old AS400 system. Yes it was a challenge but it went well and the ease of doing reports from SAP made me smile each time. For a French system, the mindset was very German.

 

[Donald]

A company I work for has been using SAP for one division, and recently transfered their other division over this year, and I was curious why the performance is so miserable. Other companys use it as well, and it is slow for them, which makes me question why people chose to use them. Im talking stuff that should be as fast was lifting off your mouse button responding is how modern day systems should work. Not sap, you get to watch an animation for a long time.

Any thoughts?

I have been to SAP in German years ago when I worked for IBM.

From what I remember SAP was mostly an interpretive language.

 

[Number_35]

Spent 1 month of 2013 in Southern Germany getting trained at Head Office on SAP, we were to be the 4th location to switch from old AS400 system. Yes it was a challenge but it went well and the ease of doing reports from SAP made me smile each time. For a French system, the mindset was very German.

I thought SAP was German. One thing that made sense once it was explained was why Service Entries were abbreviated D rather than S.

D was for Dienst, German for Service.

 

[4WD]

I have no choice but to use it and we are big enough to have a SAP tech who’s been at it for 20 years - everyone is extra nice to Bill
(Payables/accounting has several too) …