http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com A SearchSAP.com blog Fri, 16 May 2008 13:42:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is a growing number of failed SAP public sector deployments, ranging in scope from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) megadeal to the smaller Burnaby, B.C. project. Now the city of Portland, Oregon can be added to that list. A city analyst has revealed to the media that ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/16/portlands-busted-sap-implementation/ There's a major shortage of SAP skills in the marketplace, thanks to the inevitable lag time between SAP's aggressive debut of new products and IT workers' ability to master the associated skills. That's the message from Foote Partners' upcoming report on IT skills and compensation. The report is massive, encompassing hundreds ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/15/sap-skills-whats-hot-whats-not/ There are no authorized SAP training partners. That seems like an odd claim to make given the large number of companies claiming to provide authorized SAP training--Genovate, for example, and dozens of other companies based in South and East Asia. But the fact of the matter is that SAP itself does ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/14/the-sap-training-lie/ The show floor was electric this year at Sapphire 2008 in Orlando. With over 15,000 attendees, the vendors had their work cut out for them. I saw booths that featured magicians, Guitar Hero, and a 2008 Porsche. A handful took the sex appeal approach. With all these distractions, people were ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/13/why-did-you-go-to-sapphire/ For most industry watchers, ‘SAP’ and ‘BPM’ go together in the context of ProcessWorld, SAP partner IDS Scheer’s annual Business Process Management (BPM) shindig. But at Sapphire 2008, SAP showed signs of wanting to address more BPM capabilities via NetWeaver BPM. NetWeaver BPM, codenamed ‘Galaxy’ when it began in 2006, is ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/12/sap%e2%80%99s-bpm-roadmap/ The city of Burnaby, British Columbia (B.C.) is a small Canadian town that could furnish the next big SAP cost overrun story. In 2005, Burnaby committed $10 million (in Canadian currency, which is currently close to even with the U.S. dollar) to an SAP financials system. Now, in 2008, an ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/12/burnaby-another-sap-cost-overrun/ ORLANDO—One of the general anxieties at this or any other SAPPHIRE is about SAP’s strategic direction. The perennial question for customers old and new, as well as for prospects, is: “Where is SAP going, and how will it impact me?” A new report from AMR Research’s Jim Shepherd offers specific insight ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/06/where-sap-is-going/ SAPPHIRE is not only a place to hear about the latest SAP developments but also an important source of business strategy news. For example, today IBM released its Global CFO Study 2008 at SAPPHIRE today, with the CEO study to appear tomorrow. IBM’s CFO Study, executed in cooperation with The ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/05/the-changing-role-of-the-finance-organization/ SAP's Q1 results just came in at the lower range of SAP's guidance. The Americas software and services business was down 13 percent from Q1 2007, indicating that the U.S. recession is registering a meaningful impact on software spending across the board (since Oracle's and Microsoft's numbers were similarly hit). ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/01/saps-q1-the-shape-of-things-to-come/ Business Objects works... right? That seems to be the general consensus from its customers. Frank Dravis, back in 2005, wrote about categorizing data quality problems. In this blog he referenced what Professor Richard Wang, TDQM Co-Chair at MIT, calls the 15 dimensions of data quality problems (listed below). Accuracy Objectivity Believability Reputation Relevancy Value-added Timeliness (currency) Completeness Amount of ... http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/30/business-objects-and-data-quality-problems/