as someone whose job it is to integrate enterprise software solutions with enterprise student management software for new york school districts, please, for the love of god, academically destroy this industry
I don’t think I’ve worked with a document management package that hasn’t made me think I should start my own software company, except competent. The only thing stopping me is that I would then have to think about document management software every minute for the rest of my life.
Having read a decent amount of primary and secondary sources on enterprise software, I have concluded that it all sounds very hard and I do not wish to do it!
I don’t know what the term would be, but the course definitely has to address the situation where a company buys competitors for their customers and then either creates a new unified product in the space or forces everyone to the product to the company started out with and kills the acquisitions.
In this scenario, the acquired customers are very unhappy because they can no longer use the product they bought and stayed with because it met their needs. And building out the “successor” product past John Siracusa‘s “region of pain“ where it meets those needs again takes forever.
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(Okay, I’ll stop now.)