It’s just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP

  • Lemmist@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    5 hours ago

    That depends on spending articles, not on sum amount. Maybe their accounting is as simple as: 10bn income, 2bn to steal, 3 for salaries, 1 for medicaments and machinery, rest for advertisements.

    You don’t need super-pooper software for that.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Even if their spending is that simple in terms of categories, it’s almost certain their breakdown within each category is definitely quite a bit more complex. Hell, my wife runs her own therapy practice with just herself and she talks about how obnoxious dealing with insurance is for billing all the time.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Yeah, it depends entirely on how many things you’re tracking and how many people need to access it. It’s probably not the right tool here, but sometimes it just is.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 hours ago

        Using it to share data can be a nightmare, especially since different departments might look at that data in various ways and want their own formats. I work for a Fortune 500 company that, at least at my level of management, emailing around attached full spreadsheets of daily data rather than have a centralized database. I’ve fought it for years, but it’s what the higher ups want…stupid.

        Even better when Microsoft puts out improvements like 365 and OneDrive that break certain functions, then depreciates Excel itself. God I hate the cloud.