Did nexgen actually do anything other than waste hundreds of millions of dollars and su-k at rollout? Last I heard everyone on that project got 1’s and nice differentials to save face. Then were shown the door for that disaster.
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@vc most major oil companies use SAP. It's pretty standard. I'm not sure what you're on about.
SAP is the worst accounting software I've ever been asked to use, and NextGen took it to an entire level of su-k. I known CEOs who stopped and M&A when they found out the company used SAP
@a4 history repeats itself. Good, bad, in, out, up, down.
I have friends that work at Chevron which uses Workday... they all hate it just like I do.
@be It is the new version of SAP that you see. Many people in the company make it their whole careers without really having to use SAP, so easy to understand how you could have missed that. But the nxtgen project is SAP and the surrounding products (Workday, GEP. . . . ) and that they are connected and no longer stand alone.
Can someone please tell me what is NextGen? I understand Workday deployment was part nextgen but that’s a standalone cloud based software. So what IS NextGen? What was done during NextGen? please enlighten me.
Without NextGen, I wouldn't have dozens and dozens of new friends from India. I'm really hoping that one day they'll invite me for after work beers!
There was a lot of work done by the people working on that project. We cannot deny that. But unfortunately, they were not working on a good product. I don't hear anyone say it has made a positive difference to how we work.
What a colossal waste of money. Poor design decisions forced down everyone’s throats by consultants.
@ap nxtgen was victim to what Ryan spoke about today in not being confident in our decision making and validating a decision to the umpteenth degree. Instead of mandating the functions to get on board, we let them cry and moan for 2 years. Granted the new systems aren't even high-technology in 2025 (they barely were in 2020 when demos were taking place). I would say that it wasn't a great project, but it got done somehow.
Hopefully in near future we could replace these systems easier than we did in nxtgen and actually get on a high-tech platform
nxtGen began in like 2016 to paint the full picture of how much time and money was wasted on it. Workday was a part of that in replacing the in house built HR Express tool. But overall the project was grossly mismanaged and led to some of the organizational challenges IT faces today.
As a contractor , we used it last year. Literally nothing changed after the rollout except we were actually told not to use it after about 30 days into 2025 . Haven’t opened the application in 8 months
@ac We just moved to it this year.
We had workday before nextgen. This is my whole point. Nothing changed
@a3 What function are you in? If you use workday, then you know what nxtgen is - that was part of it.
It was a way to make it look like certain people/groups were actually doing something to add value...without actually adding any value. But hey, call it a success and move on to the next winning scheme!
@OP I’ll be honest . I don’t even know what nextgen is. Never used it / didn’t change my job at all