The Management Assistant built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“It's only employee data.”— Thomas, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Officially because the licence costs €799 per named user. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Thomas, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

Google sign-in, any Google account

Deployment:

hosted in Kevin's Azure subscription

Responsible:

Elena, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2033.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 338 users, direct production access, 1 accidental connections.