Re: Sap Bites the Dust at Sobeys ($81 million)

From: nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com>
Subject: Re: Sap Bites the Dust at Sobeys ($81 million)
> > Hmmm..what platform was the SAP being implemented on?
> > 81million...even in Loonies, that's not chicken feed...someone's butt's
> > gonna be on the platter for this one...
> > WHY did they punt SAP?  The article didn't give alot of details..
> 
> often these decisions are made for emotional reasons and not logical
> ones.  
> 
> perhaps the guy that made the decision to go with sap was gone or had
> lost favor.  or a new it manager came in that disliked sap and wanted
> another product.  or they underpurchased their hardware and didn't want
> to accept that.  or sap over promised and under delivered.  or someone
> at sap was rude on the tech support line.  who really knows....

or maybe the product couldn't handle the load. This happened some years
ago to a very large pharmaceutical company in Dallas (Fox-Meyers). They
actually went bankrupt directly because of trying to use SAP.




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