Is SAP losing its Sheen !
I have had three calls this week to attend the SAP India Forum in Mumbai but have not qualified since my turnover as a consulting company does not meet SAP India's requirements !
The fact that their agency repeatedly calls me to register and follows it up with an email and again turnover verification is the show stopper.
It is clear that SAP wants only customers who have significant turnover in their business and not consultants who are vendor agnostic .
I am no new comer to SAP and have seen it swallow companies and enforce inflexibility in its process and stifle innovation ! I have had a few consulting stints where I have had mixed success in making SAP usage flexible and user friendly, but companies still finalize their forecast and balance sheets on data downloaded from the SAP and then used in Excel Sheets. Of course those companies who can afford the connector can directly connect into SAP through Excel.
I know of a company who get repeat orders from its customer because the SAP system makes it cumbersome to add new vendors, thus depriving the company on introducing new vendors and realizing competitive pricing.
SAP's offering on the cloud was aggressive but the same inflexible systems as a SAAS model has not made much headway !
The best definition of SAP is buy a bundled solution and then pay to get it work in your organization, most often the SAP code gets customized in many Indian companies that one large group had to make a special deal with SAP for version upgrades which were no longer supported.
In the world of cloud computing SAP may be just blown away as a dinosaurs and businesses look for agility and flexibility and cost effective solutions.
India is one of the largest potential markets for SAP given its low adoption of computing in manufacturing and distribution, but will SAP be able to compete with SAAS vendors and Oracle and Microsoft in India ?
SAP may not be geared for the battle and could be one of the first victims to the disruptive technology of Cloud Computing! RIP - the dinosaurs ruled the world once upon a time !
I have had three calls this week to attend the SAP India Forum in Mumbai but have not qualified since my turnover as a consulting company does not meet SAP India's requirements !
The fact that their agency repeatedly calls me to register and follows it up with an email and again turnover verification is the show stopper.
It is clear that SAP wants only customers who have significant turnover in their business and not consultants who are vendor agnostic .
Is it Sunset for SAP !
I am no new comer to SAP and have seen it swallow companies and enforce inflexibility in its process and stifle innovation ! I have had a few consulting stints where I have had mixed success in making SAP usage flexible and user friendly, but companies still finalize their forecast and balance sheets on data downloaded from the SAP and then used in Excel Sheets. Of course those companies who can afford the connector can directly connect into SAP through Excel.
I know of a company who get repeat orders from its customer because the SAP system makes it cumbersome to add new vendors, thus depriving the company on introducing new vendors and realizing competitive pricing.
SAP's offering on the cloud was aggressive but the same inflexible systems as a SAAS model has not made much headway !
The best definition of SAP is buy a bundled solution and then pay to get it work in your organization, most often the SAP code gets customized in many Indian companies that one large group had to make a special deal with SAP for version upgrades which were no longer supported.
In the world of cloud computing SAP may be just blown away as a dinosaurs and businesses look for agility and flexibility and cost effective solutions.
India is one of the largest potential markets for SAP given its low adoption of computing in manufacturing and distribution, but will SAP be able to compete with SAAS vendors and Oracle and Microsoft in India ?
SAP may not be geared for the battle and could be one of the first victims to the disruptive technology of Cloud Computing! RIP - the dinosaurs ruled the world once upon a time !
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