It all boils down to "Education" and teams working together. If the powers that be see that IT does not cooperate then you get left out of the picture only to complain that decisions were made for you.
Smart CFO's don't want to shell out for more than they have to, and that includes having to replace all the labor in IT because no one has the skill set to support their purchase. That happens when you have not proven any value to the overall progress of the company. They want results and they want them fast as possible with as little interruption to the business flow. Savvy companies now recognize IT's value and no longer consider it simply as a "service" department for the company. That accurate data is priceless -- Debster -------------- Original message -------------- > Mostly true. But how many systems are being chosen by the beancounters > because they're "standard"? Not because it helps to improve sales, > manufacturing or operations, just accounting functions? And then > sales/manufacturing/operations has to adopt to the new, improved system? > > If SAP and/or Oracle/Peoplesoft is that great, why are any other > packages being bought? > > Rog > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Why is it "us against them?" as in IT vs the Bean counters? Duh...that is > where I always had my greatest problems as a project manager..getting IT and > financial to play nice in the same sandbox. > > > >I hate to say it, but IT was always the worse of the two warring factions in > this regard. YOU ALL WORK FOR THE SAME COMPANY > > > >An export tool has been used (and sometimes abused) for over 20 some odd > >years > now. Accounting wants pivot tables etc...they can create presentations, they > reformat and consolidate, and sometimes it is the only way to get > consolidated > financials from disparate systems. > > > >If you had no idea why or if Accounting ever wanted spreadsheets, ask..if > >you > think they don't...you've been living under a rock > > > >-- > >Debster > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
