What's SAP?
SAP has enabled&#x2F;mandated an army of people at my company who manage it and ruthlessly control even read access to it.  The software is user-hostile, intentionally obscure, and all requests for slightly customized reports have to go through a multilayered approval process -  often up to corporate - where it competes for funding against other survivors.  Needing something custom invites constant questions of why the standard process is not enough.<p>It was sprung essentially overnight with no training and expectations to show immediate positive results with no criticism tolerated.  The rollout was preceded by a couple of years of secretive process reworking where the business was modified to the way SAP said it ought to be done.  We expand it to &quot;Stop All Progress&quot; because it marked the formal transition from a technology influenced company to an integrator focusing on acquiring tech from others.