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.

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.