Some time ago saw a real inception concept in technology. This had to do with activation process of pre-paid cards for a distributor of such cards within cards provider. Whenever a distributor needed to activate a batch of pre-paid cards (prior for those cards to be sold out), he needed to perform the following steps:
- Open a web page and login to distributors area on the site
- Click a button to launch a java applet which would open an RDP client and connect to a window server
- In the given RDP session click on shortcut, which would open IE with a web page of some intranet, accessible only from that RDP session
- In the given intranet, enter a part of LIKE SQL statement with parts of the serial number of cards to be activated and click the query button
- Select all/some checkboxes next to result rows of a query and press activation button
That looks pretty much like a scenario of a recent movie :)
I won’t give out any names of companies or whatsoever, just wanted to show how a simple task can be over-complicated…