SAP continues because they have a great sales team that makes execs feel like they are making a choice that never gets them fired. SAP doesnt care about UX and in the 10 or so years Ive dealt with it on the periphery, its been a barely serviceable product with a terrible user interface. I especially love how the localization is so sporadic in the application. Sure the front end will be mostly english, but be prepared for a lot of tables/columns/fields to be in German. Granted, its been a few years since Ive done much SAP related work(I build interfaces between trading systems and SAP for accounting and some logistics interfaces.)
Anyway, their goal is to move into new business verticals and not really fix the product. They are actually trying to move into the trading and risk management arena in which I work. So far they have one major client that I'm aware of and they are struggling to make it work.
As an SAP dev knowing some German is a big help - not German but my home language has Germanic roots without the gender bits so close enough, so it helps if I need to read their variable names as comments are sparse or simply not there.
Anyway, their goal is to move into new business verticals and not really fix the product. They are actually trying to move into the trading and risk management arena in which I work. So far they have one major client that I'm aware of and they are struggling to make it work.