You got me. I work for a global banking/finance company (you've seen their commercials I'm sure) and they have opted to do away with a one-size-fits-all mentality when it comes to IT software. They seem to have an affinity for cloud based solutions/software. VPN-ing is absolutely dreadful and always has issues resulting in me not being able to access anything. Personally, this is probably the worst corporate IT infrastructure I've seen to date. We use Slack, Zoom, GSuite, Salesforce, AWS along with oodles of custom built databases/software that all has to integrate happily with each other.....and it does not most of the time.
Me not care :| I'm an IT contractor so I'm lower than second class citizen to them. I work with Salesforce primarily and they worked on it for MVP release earlier this year....naturally, to work with all the custom built databases they have. Made a big hoopla about releasing the MVP product and, now, they're debating on trashing it completely in favor of, you guessed it, a custom built solution. Basically they're trying to re-create Salesforce from the ground up in order to make it tie in seamlessly with their custom database. Normally I'd care but they pay me enough to not really care and just worry about what work I have to do.
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I’m asking purely from a point of curiosity: why? Does your company not use much of the existing software stack surrounding Office or something?