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Technology Stocks : PSFT - Fiscal 1998 - Discussion for the next year -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2496)	10/4/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: Raptor	Respond to of 4509

MIchelle .. I agree with you to the limit of my knowledge on this, but how many prospective clients who are ready to sign a contract really know what it is going to cost them. If they have heard of long implementations, you can bet the SAP sales people are ready with excuses and examples of companies who have implemented in three months. Most companies fail to realize what it is going to take to implement a software package - any vendor package. My current client has licenced SAP for ERP app's (financials, order processing, etc.). They have a huge team in US and CDA and hired a Big 5 firm. I know little about SAP, but I felt they had an overly ambitious timeline. All I hear now is that they are making the live date, but the scope has been so reduced, no one is going to get functionality the team first talked about and there is going to be much manual effort. So just what have they accomplished? Meanwhile, our PS HRMS project is going to deliver basically all the functionality originally promised and the business users are happy with what they are getting. So we have happy PSFT users and at least some grumbling in the SAP user ranks. We toil away in relative obscurity and this big overblown team has the spotlight. They are welcome to it because I think the real success will be in how things are running after the live dates of our two applications (about 1 month apart). PS I am not being argumentative, but PSFT has got to have SAP beat hands down in HRMS functionality.