Walzmyn writes:
"The company I work for is not a tech company. We are, however, a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company that claims to be the largest of our kind in three industries (and second largest in a 4th). And yet, our company network sucks. There is a mishmash of Citrix and SAP, multiple web-portals, and none of them work with each other. The several thousand non-technical people that work for this company are routinely asked to interface with this system and end up spending time with the helpdesk or with a supervisor looking over the shoulder for something that was supposed to be private.
I've heard of similar situations with other companies, so I wanted to ask the folks that live and breathe the tech sector this: Why can't a company this size get something so fundamental done right? Why can't they at least hire a third party to do it right for them?"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by lubricus on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:33AM
Not trolling, really, and sorry US-centric:
Funny how we are understanding and thoughtful when it comes to balkanization and messes when comes to corporations (or perhaps just our own experiences), but when it comes to the Obamacare website or the new VA computer system, we were so quick to disparage and trivialize.
Or maybe it's just a different crowd here!
Federal systems suffer from all the above and more.
... sorry about the typos