Our "Employee Self Service" software is delivered by SAP. ESS as in "DIY Human Resources", we cannot afford to have HR staff any more!
SAP is tragically slow and always has been. However, I cannot work out what the graphic at the top of the page is supposed to represent. Here it is in all its low res glory? Anyone know?
As a IT guy who has helped put in big SAP systems worth millions, I would say it's a repro of the rock you going to smash your computer with, when you have had enough of SAP.
Looks like a rock? SAP is horrible, they used it at Ericsson for some time.
Ahh, but rocks ain't rocks Mike (he says donning his pseudo-geologists hat). Perhaps there is something significant about the rock, but at that resolution I can't see it. To me at first glance I'd guess a piece of sandstone with a silica intrusion along the bedding plane and rounded in a river. Common as muck.
Perhaps the inference is that the software's performance should be measured on the geological time scale. Just a thought.
Used SAP a number of years ago whilst working with Southcorp Whitegoods(Vulcan, Hoover, Chef etc)
Was an ERP system - Has the ability to control raw materials and the purchase of, through to finished stock and control all production in between based on end sales etc
For memory, they gave us the speil when training, that the co- was founded by some ex IBM employee's that were given the base technology by IBM. This software was originally created by Xerox who gave it to IBM during their upgarde to IBM compatible software.
It was cumbersome system then and I don't see it being any different now
SAP. Think it stands for Systems And Procedures (or maybe Processes). It's a modular system, the core setup can be used with different modules to suit the business. A pain to use and a bit like a camel, a horse designed by a committee.
Never heard of it before I came to a University. Here it is the finance package and probably does other stuff as well.
I did a day of training on the financial side (SAP for managers) and have tried to forget it and just ask staff to get me what I want - it was horrible.
Then we got told to do all our own HR stuff online and, surprise, it was a SAP-driven module. So you get a cup of coffee while you are waiting to login, go for a second cup while it retrieves the first screen of your details etc. etc.
I just couldn't work out that graphic - perhaps it is local to the Uni?
Humayun If your only paying 170 an hour for a SAP consultant you have got a dud. We sell ours @250+. Mind you we did put in one system worth 600 million ( I think) dollars over ten years. Accounts love SAP and everyone else hates it.
(he says donning his pseudo-geologists hat). Perhaps there is something significant about the rock, but at that resolution I can't see it. To me at first glance I'd guess a piece of sandstone with a silica intrusion along the bedding plane and rounded in a river. Common as muck.
