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Liberal_in_LA

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3. SAP will hire away the employees that are competent with the system, leaving the customer

Reply to Scuba (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 02:48 PM

Jan 2013

doubly screwed.

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Has Purchased Payroll software hit your workplace? [View all] hedgehog Jan 2013 OP

SAP has been successfully installed in thousands of client businesses. There have also been ... Scuba Jan 2013 #1

SAP will hire away the employees that are competent with the system, leaving the customer Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #3

In my experience (lots) there are "no hire" clauses in contracts between software vendors/clients... Scuba Jan 2013 #9

a prior workplace - SAP brought it to its knees. Screwed up paychecks, hard to work with system Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #2

I'm posting from work at the moment...so..."no comment". bullwinkle428 Jan 2013 #4

lol Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #5

Of course NONE of these problems were found during the testing BEFORE it went LIVE!!! benld74 Jan 2013 #6

ROFL! Next you will be talking about providing SPECS! IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #10

Specs are just a hindrance to getting every imaginable feature. Whining about ... Scuba Jan 2013 #15

It's unusual to have specs for what the system being replaced actually does FarCenter Jan 2013 #19

You're making me nostalgic. I specialized in taking over "train wreck" healthcare IT departments .. Scuba Jan 2013 #21

I thought "IT Architecture" was so limited a view; it was more like "IT Urban Redevelopment" FarCenter Jan 2013 #24

Ha! Great analogy. Now just add "doctors like gods" and see what you've got. Scuba Jan 2013 #26

Don't you have "psychic specficiations" provided for YOUR projects? IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #23

By now I'm compulsive about writing "in scope/out of scope" statements... Scuba Jan 2013 #27

You sound like you know what you are doing. IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #28

Sounds like you've been in the trenches too. Scuba Jan 2013 #32

Been selling my IT soul to the highest bidder IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #34

What is this 'testing' you speak of? Egalitarian Thug Jan 2013 #11

I once pissed off a "dotted line" boss -- IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #29

Don't look now, but they're coming to healthcare KamaAina Jan 2013 #7

EPIC is not associated with SAP. Privately-owned EPIC has been successfully installed ... Scuba Jan 2013 #12

Well, all right. Why, when I went to an Epic demo a couple of months ago, KamaAina Jan 2013 #17

Probably because EPIC and SAP have been interfaced. There may have been a Lawson or ... Scuba Jan 2013 #20

The implementation team is to blame. IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #8

Bingo. Scuba Jan 2013 #14

You don't mean to say someone tried to get by on the cheap! That always saves money! hedgehog Jan 2013 #16

And they should *totally* cut the training budget - that IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #25

SAP is the world's largest seller of business software FarCenter Jan 2013 #13

SAP is an extraneous layer of poorly written software that had an excellent sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #18

SAP is supposed to be a "black box" installation. ieoeja Jan 2013 #22

i feel your pain! hedgehog Jan 2013 #30

+1000 and I've wondered for years why IT shops bought it. sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #31

Because management got snowed by pretty presentations IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #35

"Mainframes were running DOS"????? SharonAnn Jan 2013 #33

Beginning in 1966. FarCenter Jan 2013 #36

My first job was punching cards and hauling decks and tapes down hedgehog Jan 2013 #38

Dos/360 was announced in 1964. Forefunner of VSE. sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #39

This message was self-deleted by its author ieoeja Jan 2013 #40

Thanks for Alert...our small business is going through enough hell..more KoKo Jan 2013 #37

You're kidding, right? jmowreader Jan 2013 #41

Ugh, my agency has a SAP GUI HR/Payroll system. yewberry Jan 2013 #42

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