The trash-disposal giant Waste Management is suing SAP, saying top SAP executives participated in a fraudulent sales scheme that resulted in a failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation.
Many businesses do not realize ERP system implementations are very risky at best. There are so many known and many more unknown ERP implementation failures. These failures usually stem from over zealous CIO and salesman promises, and simple failure of due diligence discovery of fact from fictional advertising.
by Anonymous (not verified) on 7/16/08 at 1:26 am |reply
LSO troubles
I have had the opportunity to work with the Learning Solutions of SAP in couple of organisations. In both the cases I had to junk the system for another Learning Management System.
When I had tried to understand why the organisations bought the systems I found similar Con(vincing) jobs being done by the SAP. What was shown in the demo did not reflect the reality.
I guess this is a part of the strategy of getting the closure
by Anonymous (not verified) on 8/24/09 at 2:46 am |reply
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Many businesses do not
Many businesses do not realize ERP system implementations are very risky at best. There are so many known and many more unknown ERP implementation failures. These failures usually stem from over zealous CIO and salesman promises, and simple failure of due diligence discovery of fact from fictional advertising.LSO troubles
I have had the opportunity to work with the Learning Solutions of SAP in couple of organisations. In both the cases I had to junk the system for another Learning Management System.When I had tried to understand why the organisations bought the systems I found similar Con(vincing) jobs being done by the SAP. What was shown in the demo did not reflect the reality.
I guess this is a part of the strategy of getting the closure