My company uses this: http://www.infor.com/product_summary/erp/visual/
as an ERP to manage inventory, sales, production, etc.
The best way to describe is basically a glorified Oracle database viewer.
They probably took an Oracle DBA tool, renamed it and then proceeded to sell it. That's how fucking worthless it is at "user experience".
The first problem is configuration. It requires the full Oracle library which is at 1 gig now. Your path variable must point to one specified Oracle library. Good luck having any other apps work at the same time.
It requires fucking TNS names to be configured which you must arbitrarily shove into some specific folder in the retarded hierarchy of the oracle library. because LOL ORACLE. Their "server" input field on the login form rejects actual server paths.
The Real WTF
It also uses the Oracle user database system as a user account system. An user gets created in Oracle to login in as through the fucking tool. The default permissions on any account created through the software is FULL ACCESS to the database. It actually does an GRANT ALL wildcard on all tables in the database. The creator must change their permissions after creating the user.
Now for database security that's jsut mind blowing considering just how much critical data is being managed by the software. But even worse is that the makers of the software added a -password argument switch to auto login. So now our entire company has our user passwords to the database stored in the fucking shortcuts to the glorified piece of shit DBA software. You know, instead of adding an remember me checkbox with some sort of encrypted file on disk like any other software.
Also our Oracle license is the named user nonsense. So we can only have 50 max users logged in simultaneously. We actually have emails sent off asking people to logoff.
As for user interface? Well it's basically windows forms. In their latest release they decided to redo their look going from what was an old school Windows Classic like look to making everything fucking black on white with modern logos, basically trying to do Metro UI on something that's supposed to be hardcore data entry.
And the finally, APPARENTLY their next release is going to see the tool go from a desktop tool to an web based tool. So now it's horrible security practices can be exposed by idiots to the outside world!