HACKER Q&A
📣 tomquirk

What is the worst enterprise software you use every day?


Follow up to a 2020 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23803539


  👤 matthewwolfe Accepted Answer ✓
The janky enterprise “security” software that runs at 100% cpu constantly and is the number 1 reason the laptop fan spins up. AKA spyware. I’ve got the keys to production databases but for some reason can’t be trusted to update my computer or not download viruses.

“Use” is very loose definition, “forced to run” is more accurate.


👤 thorin
Service Now

Teams - slow, memory hungry

Defendpoint for local admin - when you end up having to put your password in 20 times to install something from Microsoft, for example

Jira - maybe it's just the way ours is configured but TFS/AZdevops seemed so much better

Microsoft Dynamics...


👤 nilubkal
Definitely Teams ! Windows or Linux, both !

👤 TowerTall
Teams

👤 Mave83
Jira

👤 ElfinTrousers
Slack. I realize that I'm quite lucky in this regard. Slack isn't great, but it's far from the Enterprise (TM) dumpster fire that other examples here are.

👤 rurban
Windows 10. Everything is just 10x slower than on Linux

👤 lostlogin
Radiology software. The information system (RIS) the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and Teams. Everything about teams.

👤 polartx
Salesforce

👤 john_the_writer
Outlook. It is clunky, and the rules seem to be hit and miss.

👤 busboy
Autocad... Oracle document manager....

👤 j7ake
Adobe, Microsoft teams, Citrix

👤 fvilers
- Teams

- Jira

- HP Smart


👤 gfd
Citrix

👤 hulitu
1. Teams

2. Windows 10

3. Windows Explorer


👤 throwmeup123
SAP

👤 l3uwin
Teams and gsuite by a mile.