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Allegedly Rigged Product Demo In SAP Suit Goes Missing

Posted by timothy on from the dig-deep-fellas dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Isn't Waste Management known as sleezy by LaRoach · · Score: 5, Informative

    Waste Management was caught cooking the books ala Enron, Worldcom, etc: http://www.sec.gov/news/headlines/wastemgmt6.htm

  2. Re:like every other sales demo by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 3, Informative

    "So I have this great Wazmo that you certainly need! It jimmies your jewels so that they hum with the harmony of a negative color! You want to buy it, we want to sell it! It is a win-win for everyone!"

    That is my sales pitch... and you just bought my Wazmo. Who is the idiot?

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    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
  3. Re:I for one... by b4dc0d3r · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not funny. I work at a fortune 11x company and I know several things are true.

    1) We use SAP because they made a pitch and hooked a sucker in a suit.
    2) You buy SAP, then a plan to "customize" it.
    3) Customize means "finish the code"
    4) It also means you pay high-ranking aka high-earning business types piles of money to give requirements to SAP when a junior coder could just do the obvious and have something that works
    5) The requirements you give to SAP are exactly the same as what the sales pitch said it already did

    I'm sure I could go on. This is not a funny comment, it is how SAP works. Mod me scary or obvious if you want, but not funny.