Friday, April 27, 2007
Sapphire 2007: Users talk Duet, upgrades and MDM problems
Sapphire 2007: Users talk Duet, upgrades and MDM problems: "Practically everyone SearchSAP.com spoke with had either just completed or was planning an upgrade, most of them to mySAP ERP 2004 or 2005. SAP has been advocating upgrades since announcing that there would be no more core upgrades until 2010. It seems the user community is beginning to heed the call. SAP's discontinuation of R/3 4.6x support last year may have helped drive the momentum as well.
Kathy Ward, an IT manager at oil giant Halliburton in Houston, Texas, said her company is currently running R/3 4.6C and is in the assessment phase for an upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005 next year. The plan at this point is to do a Big Bang implementation, which requires quite a bit of preliminary legwork. That's proving to be a bit of a problem, Ward said.
'We're trying to bridge the gap between 4.6C and mySAP ERP 2005, but it's hard because there's no delta training,' she said. 'I wish we had some training CDs, online education and the like, but all we've been offered by SAP so far are expensive custom classes.' "
Kathy Ward, an IT manager at oil giant Halliburton in Houston, Texas, said her company is currently running R/3 4.6C and is in the assessment phase for an upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005 next year. The plan at this point is to do a Big Bang implementation, which requires quite a bit of preliminary legwork. That's proving to be a bit of a problem, Ward said.
'We're trying to bridge the gap between 4.6C and mySAP ERP 2005, but it's hard because there's no delta training,' she said. 'I wish we had some training CDs, online education and the like, but all we've been offered by SAP so far are expensive custom classes.' "
