Comment by sim7c00

Comment by sim7c00 a day ago

you are right. an enterprise products can never be ready for any enterprise customer. they need custom solutions to work with what they already invested millions in. each customer is different there. most enterprise products are ever expanding 'app platforms' or frameworks ultimately, in order to be able to adapt to new customer environments and needs quickly and efficiently. if they arent, most environments will spit them out quickly and harshly. bad for business on either side.

wil421 a day ago

The things I hate about this with SAAS products is they usually gate keep things like sso behind the enterprise plans.

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physicsguy 15 hours ago

From the other side, have you ever tried to deal with corporate customers with SSO?
What normally happens: * Enterprise customer's CIO/Legal/Security team demands SSO.
* You are put in touch with some support guy in India in IT
* He doesn't know so has to go out to some external consultancy to work with whatever hell they've layered on top of Entra ID
* You end up getting sent a SAML configuration
* Said SAML configuration doesn't work for some reason so you reach out again.
* You wait for a response for a month
* The people who actually want to use the product are getting annoyed
* Somehow an exception is made, so user accounts get created, people start using the product.
* 6 months later the exception is up, you've still not heard from their IT team despite badgering them.
* Suddenly their IT team gets into gear, it all gets set up and is working.
* Two years later, the SAML configuration is due to expire. You reach out to the customer contact and the whole game starts all over again because of course all the people you previously spoke to have left.

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necovek a day ago

> quickly and efficiently

Are we considering products like Salesforce or SAP "enterprise app platforms" here?

Look for any of a million news reports on multi-year "integrations" (sometimes even failed ones but always over budget).

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