Comments on: A bit poor http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/a-bit-poor/ Andy Hayler, noted industry expert and founder of Kalido, gives his view on developments in the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and corporate performance management. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:20:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Restaurant Pos http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/a-bit-poor/#comment-61926 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:54:01 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/a-bit-poor/#comment-61926 A Company who shall rename nameless with head offices based in North London decided to install a complete SAP System to run there multi million pound business, now I cant say how good SAP is or is not, but I do know when the price was originally quoted, it was around 25 million pounds to complete the task, if memory serves me right 5 years later it had cost over 70 million to implement this SAP strategy, not to mention the costs for the engineers to maintain it. A Company who shall rename nameless with head offices based in North London decided to install a complete SAP System to run there multi million pound business, now I cant say how good SAP is or is not, but I do know when the price was originally quoted, it was around 25 million pounds to complete the task, if memory serves me right 5 years later it had cost over 70 million to implement this SAP strategy, not to mention the costs for the engineers to maintain it.

]]> by: Andy Hayler http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/a-bit-poor/#comment-70 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:31:00 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/a-bit-poor/#comment-70 I actually agree with you. If you read my original blog on this: http://andyhayler.blogspot.com/2005/11/bit-rich.html you will see that my main point was that the choice of software may or may not be correlated with profitability, but it does not cause it. I just find it doubly amusing that the data itself may well be dubious; one can't tell, because neither SAP nor Stratoscope will publish their data. To suggest that choosing some particular piece of back office software has anything to do with profitability is inherently nonsensical, which makes SAP's claims all the more outrageous. I actually agree with you. If you read my original blog on this:

http://andyhayler.blogspot.com/2005/11/bit-rich.html

you will see that my main point was that the choice of software may or may not be correlated with profitability, but it does not cause it. I just find it doubly amusing that the data itself may well be dubious; one can’t tell, because neither SAP nor Stratoscope will publish their data. To suggest that choosing some particular piece of back office software has anything to do with profitability is inherently nonsensical, which makes SAP’s claims all the more outrageous.

]]> by: Jason http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/a-bit-poor/#comment-69 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:06:00 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/03/a-bit-poor/#comment-69 Andy, There are three sides to every story, in this case Nucleus, Stratascope and the truth. I'm surprised you would so readily endorse Nucleus' findings when, in my view, the "quality" of their stastistical data set is hardly compelling. Less than 90 companies sampled? For a global enterprise that has 30+ million seats and thousands of customers? Frankly, anyone grounded in math has to take both the Nucleus and Stratascope research findings for granted. After all, the reality is there are very few large enterprises that don't have at least one instance of SAP installed. When you're casting such a wide net, it's virtually impossible to suggest that the software in and of itself makes a firm more or less profitable. Andy,

There are three sides to every story, in this case Nucleus, Stratascope and the truth.

I’m surprised you would so readily endorse Nucleus’ findings when, in my view, the “quality” of their stastistical data set is hardly compelling. Less than 90 companies sampled? For a global enterprise that has 30+ million seats and thousands of customers?

Frankly, anyone grounded in math has to take both the Nucleus and Stratascope research findings for granted. After all, the reality is there are very few large enterprises that don’t have at least one instance of SAP installed. When you’re casting such a wide net, it’s virtually impossible to suggest that the software in and of itself makes a firm more or less profitable.

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