07/28/2008 by Dieter Steiger
As its name suggests, the SAP Solution Manager is designed to provide support for the management of SAP customer implementations. Does it perform this task? Or is it just one of SAP´s marketing instruments?
Missing Functions for Complex System Landscapes
When discussing the pros and cons of SAP Solution Manager, we must first of all give SAP [...]
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07/25/2008 by Dieter Steiger
On Friday, October 26, 2007, inside-it.ch reported that OC Oerlikon will stop its super SAP project. The new approach is said to provide a „more intelligent, more flexible and cheaper solution that integrates all ERP systems of the business units using a central SAP consolidation tool“.
This seems to simplify things, but why is it that [...]
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07/24/2008 by Peter Helfenstein
HP offers a number of BTO Centers. These software packages support in the context of a BTO strategy specific phases of the application lifecycle. The following overview is meant to shed light on the HP BTO jungle.
IT STRATEGY
Project and Portfolio Management Center (CIO Office)
The IT management solution enables control and documentation of the enterprise [...]
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07/22/2008 by Klaus Otto
The New Role of IT
For many years, all IT departments seem to have taken up the cause of cost reducing. This has changed. Business managers more and more consider IT a lever for boosting growth. Particularly, this means for IT departments to implement new business models and concepts as fast as possible.
In most cases, IT [...]
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07/17/2008 by Marco Gerussi
My blog Scoping – A Guarantee for Success through Harmonized Expectations describes how to identify factors that are most relevant to the success of the project:
Expectations of all key roles are defined and synchronized from the start
The technical system architecture is designed
The functional requirements are defined
An implementation roadmap comprising project contents, required organizations and project [...]
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07/14/2008 by Peter Helfenstein
According to then most recent Forrester Wave Report dating July 8, 2008 on Functional Testing solutions HP clearly keeps on leading this market.
Using 96 criteria Forrester evaluated 6 solutions and came to clear results:
HP continues leading the functional testing market since it acquired Mercury Interactive in 2006.
IBM has a very promising product roadmap and [...]
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07/02/2008 by Michael Loebbert
As a reminder of what a strategy is and what it should provide:
It organizes and coordinates a variety of acts and decisions of one or more persons to a common goal,
it makes this in a deliberate contrast to other perhaps possible approaches, takes a conscious decision and risk.
Effectiveness is achieved not only with orientation, concentration [...]
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07/01/2008 by Marco Gerussi
Projects often fail to be successful due to diverging, badly aligned expectations
Dozens of statistics seem to suggest that there are dozens of reasons why projects fail to be successful. However, a great deal of them are attributable to vaguely defined objectives, problems related to technical architecture and a lack of management support. These causes, [...]
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SAP Solution Manager – More Than Just SAP Marketing?
