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In reply to the discussion: Has Purchased Payroll software hit your workplace? [View all]Scuba
(53,475 posts)21. You're making me nostalgic. I specialized in taking over "train wreck" healthcare IT departments ..
... many did not even have an inventory of their applications, equipment, vendors, etc. A few key employees held all such information in their heads. Planning had only been considered in the heat of the moment when everything was going to hell.
I loved turning those babies around.
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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
Of course NONE of these problems were found during the testing BEFORE it went LIVE!!!
benld74
Jan 2013
#6
Specs are just a hindrance to getting every imaginable feature. Whining about ...
Scuba
Jan 2013
#15
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
EPIC is not associated with SAP. Privately-owned EPIC has been successfully installed ...
Scuba
Jan 2013
#12
Probably because EPIC and SAP have been interfaced. There may have been a Lawson or ...
Scuba
Jan 2013
#20
You don't mean to say someone tried to get by on the cheap! That always saves money!
hedgehog
Jan 2013
#16
SAP is an extraneous layer of poorly written software that had an excellent
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2013
#18