If you are new to SAP, learn this one thing. They will not change the way SAP works to match your business or process.
(They say they will, but they won't). You are going to end up changing your business and process to match the way SAP wants you to do it. Just relax into it, and it won;t be too painful. On 7/3/07, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in hell. > > Rather, I'll be there soon. > > Apparently, we've signed a contract to replace our existing > Advancement product (BSR ADVANCE) with a solution from SAP. > > We already have SAP in place for financials and some other stuff. > > The problem is... SAP has no advancement product. (For the > uninitiated, "advancement" is a fancy word for fundraising). > > In a perfect world if we upgraded from our existing 15 year old > version of BSR Advance, it would probably take 18 months to implement. > And it'd be painful - but at least they have a good product (they are > the market leader by far) > > Peoplesoft has an advancement product - they got into the market like > 10 years ago I guess. And their product is still pretty inferior to > even what we currently have. > > So why should anyone think that SAP can just take their CRM and "make > it work" for Advancement? No freakin' way. > > Someone shoot me! > > Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237731 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
