per Ram Manohar Tiwari link

Nothing serious ..or may be !!

Welcome to ERP2.0 : The Blog of a Purchase Order

Date 07-Oct-2007 Time 01:10:00 PM

NASDAQ
crashed today. Just wondering what would be my net worth in USD (
Foreign Currency ) now. Feeling lucky to have GBP as my local currency
:)

Tags : EXCHANGE-RATE

Date 06-Oct-2007 Time 12:10:00 AM

I
am not feeling good today. Change in conditions. This guy with user-id
RMTIWARI robbed me of my value. Now I have a net price of '1000.00
GBP'. Unbelievable, just a few moments back, I was one of the
wealthiest Purchase Orders in my company having net worth of '5000.00
GBP'.
I don't want to live any more. Someone please complete my lifecycle.

Tags : RMTIWARI, PRICE CHANGE, CONDITION VALUE

January 2006 A good rap song is hard to resist. Just ask the employees at SAP who helped spread a customized rap song to more than 85 percent of their colleagues. The rap song, written and produced by Morsekode, was the cornerstone of a viral marketing campaign that was honored this month by MarketingSherpa, Inc. as the favorite among the top 12 viral marketing campaigns of the year.

The campaign was developed by Morsekode to raise awareness for the agency's creative work for SAP and to generate sales leads within the organization. Built around a rap song titled "The ERP of This Century" (ERP stands for "Enterprise Resource Planning"), the campaign was intended to spread via e-mail forwarding, blogs and internal postings throughout SAP.

"We wanted to show SAP our expertise in the technology sector as well as our specific in-depth knowledge of SAP," commented agency principal, Mark Morse. "Our campaign met both objectives. When we call SAP today everyone has heard of us and our calls are returned – even at the senior levels. That's exactly what we needed."

According to Morse, the URL to the rap song was originally sent to 20 people within SAP. The e-mail did not include a forwarding request. However, within the first month the song was played more than 14,000 times and to this day is played thousands of times each month. In addition, it has been posted on blogs all over the world, on internal SAP discussion boards, and has even been used for internal meetings at SAP locations around the world.

Lyric here...

Disclaimer: This starts off really slow and highlights just how big of a nerd I can be. A whole post about software...where in the hell is my pocket protector.

I read an article the other day about ERP software. The most interesting point in it was that the major ERP companies (think SAP) spend a majority of their revenues on advertising and trying to convince big business that their products are THE products to have.
To me this seems like it would lead to some serious problems. First off, if all of this money is being spent on advertising, what is being used to hire programmers to continually improve the software? Seems to me that this just leads to a very mediocre product that will quickly fall out of date. This in turn leads to the problem of acquiring and maintaining customers.

With a mediocre product, how do you get customers to buy it? I know! Spend more money on advertising. Spend oodles of $$$$ to convince all of the bonehead executives at major companies that your product is the one that they absolutely have to have. Make sure to use lots of little flashy, sparkly things to distract the executives from the lower cost alternatives that work way better but are not included in their list of executive buzzwords (again think SAP). That way, your customers employees (think me) can spend 5 x longer when trying to get anything done using your poorly thought out product.

Customer testimonial: Hi! My name is jpr and I LOVE SAP. Before when I did expense reports, I could get a months worth done in an hour. Now, with SAP, when I do expense reports I have to click on 5x as many buttons to do the exact same freaking thing. This keeps me from having to do any real work. Plus, when it is time to look the expense report over for mistakes, SAP puts it in a nice user-notfriendly format so that I can just say screw it and send it in as is.

We all love ST22. I have seen many funny messages there. And this one, well it's a tribute to SAP short dumps. See for yourself and have fun.

Note: The image can be resized by your browser and be hardly readable. Clicking the mouse over it helps to get the original size.

The manual to run the toaster would be approximately 10,000 pages long. The toaster would come with 2,500 switches which would all have to be set in an exact pattern and in a precise sequence in order to toast specific kinds of bread. Each pattern would be established by SAP's experts as the Best Practices method of toasting that kind of bread. It would take a team of basis and functional contractors about 1 year to configure the toaster in the best manner, and then another 6 months to test it. In the mean time, your entire family would need to attend extensive training classes on how to use the new toaster. In order to support end users and consultants, MIT would establish a list-serv for people to post questions and answers regarding toaster set-up and operation. Of course, the online help would randomly pop up in German. But once it was running, you'd get the best toast in the world.

What about others...

Yet another market-share report tags the two vendors as the market's only leaders--but this one gives Oracle the edge in product quality. Overall, the CRM arena remains competitive.

by Colin Beasty
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Global enterprises will spend a total of nearly $6.6 billion on CRM application licenses by the end of 2012, according to a new report released by Datamonitor. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of leading CRM vendors, the report suggests that, despite numerous other vendors vying for attention, Oracle and SAP remain firmly atop the CRM field. In fact, unlike recent reports from other industry research firms, Datamonitor's report, focusing on CRM product quality, gives Oracle the edge over its German rival.

The report's quantitative assessment of end-user sentiment, technology features, and business intelligence capabilities found Oracle and SAP to be, by far, the leading solution providers. According to Trifkovi, both vendors provide complete solutions replete with functionality, integrate CRM with new communication technologies, and offer full flexibility of deployment options--conventional on-premise as well as variations of hosted and on-demand solutions.

IDOC remains in status 62 or 64 - We had a problem like that an inbound EDI document came into SAP and remained in status 62 or 64. Status 62 means ‘IDOC passed to application‘ and status 64 means ‘IDOC ready to be transferred to application‘. When you check IDOCs with WE02, you just see yellow light. So IDOC didn’t go to [...]The SAP Consultant's Journey]

SAP (Germany), the global leader among the suppliers of the program decisions for business management and the third one among the global leading software companies on size of market capitalization has opened the representative office in the Republic of Belarus.

The opening of the representative office in Belarus is caused by fast development of the information technologies market, for which growth favorable conditions are provided after creation of High Technologies Park in the country. The use of SAP decisions for optimization of business - processes will enable the Byelorussian enterprises to meet the high world standards in the field of management and to compete successfully with leading global companies.
HTP Administration and SAP have signed the Agreement on information assistance and cooperation. The parties plan realization of training seminars, development of the educational programs on use of the automated control systems of the enterprise for the chiefs of organizations, industrial and other enterprises.
SAP is interested in participation in the project of creation of the IT-Academy, the interest to which the company Microsoft and residents of the Belarus High Technologies Park have already shown.
http://www.park.by/en/news/index-30.html

MarketingSherpa Summary:

Brilliant! This viral campaign should inspire every marketer targeting huge organizations such as the Fortune 1000 and Global 1000. When your business prospect has tens of thousands of employees around the world, how can you get them all talking about how wonderful you are? How do you turn a handful of internal evangelists into thousands praising your name? Turns out rap music has all the answers…

Agency: in-house
Client/company: Morsekode
Brand campaign was conducted for: Morsekode
Launch date of campaign: May 6, 2005
Target audience/demographic: SAP Employees (especially in marketing)

Campaign Goal:
Increase exposure of our small marketing agency within one of the largest software companies in the world - SAP. We had done some work and wanted to capture their attention to make additional projects more plausible. To make ourselves stand out to SAP.