Waste Management sues SAP over ERP implementation
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.
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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