Re: Sierra Data Collection

[Jeff_Klipa/Harvard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

We are ourselves in the middle of an implementation project for SFDC and
did consider Sierra as a potential vendor...  I asked our project manager
what his experience was with them and this is what they said...

"We went there to Sierra and weren't that impressed, they were very
unorganized, their demo was very poorly planned and displayed,  and they
seemed only sales oriented.  Plus they were running a pirate version of
JBA, which made us uneasy.  They claim they're a JBA Business Partner but
[Our JBA (Geac) project manager] tells us they're not.  Too many shady
things..."

This is apparently why we're not using Sierra...

The inference I can make from this is that we were not big enough for them
to pay us the same kind of attention they paid to a giant like Lear...  Or
perhaps they already had all of their best people assigned to the Lear
project and that left the second string for us...

I don't know, I wasn't there so I cannot comment from personal
experience...  I can only share what our implementation team's experience
was during the vendor selection process and I hope to present a more
balanced view...  I'm glad Lear had a good experience with them...  As I'm
sure other customers have had as well...  Unfortunately, sometimes things
don't always go well in the demo so we'll never know if Sierra would have
been better then the vendor we eventually chose...  NuTech...
http://www.nutechsystems.com/

NuTech is having their own share of problems getting our first plant up and
running so I'm not prepared to give them a glowing review just yet
either...

Good luck...


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