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Allegedly Rigged Product Demo In SAP Suit Goes Missing
narramissic writes "Waste Management sued SAP in March 2008 over a failed ERP project. Now, well into the pre-trial discovery process, a presale product demonstration software package that Waste Management says was a key element of the 'false representations' SAP made to 'induce Waste Management into entering a software licensing and implementation agreement' has gone missing. Naturally, both sides say the other has it. And SAP, for its part, says it has 'searched extensively' for the system and wants it 'as much or more' as Waste Management, since it 'will help SAP disprove WM's fraud claim.'"
in reference to cleaning up this mess...
"Can't someone else do it?"
Waste management was not amused.
3 points for the reference.
Hahahaha
In response to Waste Management's complaint, SAP has said in part that the company failed to "timely and accurately define its business requirements" and did not supply "sufficient, knowledgeable, decision-empowered users and managers"
Not "decision-empowered".. good way of saying brainless lusers. I like it!
You chose...poorly.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Waste Management are a good old American business. Whereas SAP are a German (nazi+evil) corporation (super evil), who are European (communist).
We find in favor of the plaintiff!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Apparently you've never used SAP.
SAP is how Lucifer interacts with our world.
Any product demo showing SAP working in a satisfactory manner is clearly fraud.
Hi Larry. How's the yacht?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You gotta problem wid dat?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
In response to Waste Management's complaint, SAP has said in part that the company failed to "timely and accurately define its business requirements" and did not supply "sufficient, knowledgeable, decision-empowered users and managers" to work on the project. So this was pretty much like every software project I've ever worked on?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
SAP:
Shitty Ass Program
Sucks As Predicted
Suppliers Are Pissed
Still Are Problems...
Seriously, what is ERP and what is SAP? Like, from a tree?
NEVER USE ACRONYMS WITHOUT DEFINING THEM!
Actually, I'm convinced SAP saves big companies millions of dollars. They do so by losing invoices or making it so difficult for other companies to invoice them that these invoices never get paid. Companies using SAP have much higher payment aging than other companies.
While working for a factory that was switching over to SAP, I noticed that anyone outside of the SAP world (users) pronounces it 'Sap' (like from a tree). While everyone in the SAP world (consultants, etc) is very careful to pronounce it S-A-P (sounding out each letter). And they are quick to tell people that pronounce it 'Sap' that it should be pronounced S-A-P.
The software sucked so badly, and I hated it so much, that whenever I was around our SAP consultants, I made a conscience effort to say 'Sap' instead of S-A-P every chance I got. :-)
And how much does it cost those big companies in lost productivity when an unpaid supplier deciedes they have had enough and stops shipments?
That's the beauty of it. You go with a supplier that's large enough to have their own SAP implementation. That way, the supplier is pretty much in the dark as well and it takes them a while to realize they should have cut you off years ago.
How the hell did trash disposal get so mobbed up? Did the first conversation go something like this:
Mob Boss: Ya know, it's great being in the booze, gambling, and beating the crap out of people business, but you know what I've always wanted to get a piece of...? ...garbage collection. There's nuthin' more glamorous than telling people you work in garbage.
Mob Lackey: What's dat, boss?
Mob Boss:
Mob Lackey (fearful for his life): Uh... yeah, yeah, great idea boss!
Upon dying, Bill Gates went to final judgement.
St. Peter said to his, "Now Bill, you have done some good things, and you have done some bad things. It has been decided to let you decide where you want to go".
So, Bill takes a look at hell and sees these beautiful women running around, in 30 degree Celsius temperature, on beautiful beaches.
Then he took a look at heaven and it was nice, you know harps and singing and worship and stuff like that.
So he said to St. Peter that he would like to go to hell.
About a week later, St. Peter went down to hell to check on Bill. There he saw him, neck deep in molten sulfur, being whipped by demons.
He said to St. Peter, "What happened to all the beautiful women, and the beaches and the 30 degree Celsius temperature?"
Peter replied, "That was just demo."
That means it's between midnight and noon.
Isn't everything? :)
Fnord.
SAP: The Board Game.
Every card says "Lose a Turn."
You bastard. You made me click "parent" just to see what you were replying to.