What I do remember is that it seems to be down a lot. I started working in 1997 and about twice a week we would get emails from IT saying "SAP is down" and then a few hours later "SAP is back up"
After a few months of this spam I set up an email filter.
I was on the engineering side. I still don't know what SAP is and I've never needed to learn but it doesn't seem like a great product for how unreliable it seemed to be.
It's your company's central administration, basically.
As for downtime, that's probably not down to SAP itself; it's core business, if it goes down, companies can no longer operate and will lose millions. But, with so many moving parts, there's a lot of things that can and will go wrong if handled uncarefully.
What I do remember is that it seems to be down a lot. I started working in 1997 and about twice a week we would get emails from IT saying "SAP is down" and then a few hours later "SAP is back up"
After a few months of this spam I set up an email filter.
I was on the engineering side. I still don't know what SAP is and I've never needed to learn but it doesn't seem like a great product for how unreliable it seemed to be.