{"id":528,"date":"2006-09-20T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2006-09-20T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T09:00:21","slug":"sap-customers-are-more-profitable-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"SAP Customers are More Profitable… or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I don’t actually subscribe to any of the advertising hype that says you’ll be significantly more profitable one way or another if you’re running SAP instead of Oracle instead of some other tier 1 applications.\u00a0 Basically I\u2019d say that if you\u2019re running any top ERP suite, the products are within 2% of each other for most functional and technical capabilities.\u00a0 Oracle leads in some, SAP in others.<\/p>\n

However, SAP\u2019s latest ad campaign has been saying that the best run companies run SAP.\u00a0 While I\u2019m not a finance guru (ok, I\u2019m not a finance anything), this new study<\/a> seems to be showing that SAP customers are actually less profitable based on ROE (return on equity).\u00a0 There are actually many ways to measure profitability, ROE is just one of them.\u00a0 If you doubt any of this, go to Amazon and read How To Lie With Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bottom line is this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Select a good vendor who fits your organization.<\/li>\n
  2. Plan, design and implement well.<\/li>\n
  3. Communicate and manage change with strength.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So I don’t actually subscribe to any of the advertising hype that says you’ll be significantly more profitable one way or another if you’re running SAP instead of Oracle instead of some other tier 1 applications.\u00a0 Basically I\u2019d say that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-technology","category-oracle","category-sap","category-tco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}