SAP-Centric Projects

Do not pick a SAP-Primavera integration vendor without reading the below. - Let me start out with a confession: I am biased towards certain vendors. This is not due to short-term self-interest, but because I have been designing and implementing such solutions for years and have analyzed the market carefully. In my professional opinion there are not many reasons to look beyond Pipeline Software, Primavera, or SOALogix.

Professionally and personally I respect all three of these vendors and have great personal relationships with key people in these organizations. As a matter of disclosure, I also have been instrumental in designing the predecessor of the current Pipeline solution, and am still working with Pipeline which has modelled some of its packaged solutions on my "best practices" models.

But my personal interest goes beyond a specific vendor. The overall value of the implemented solution is only to a small degree determined by technology and application aspects. Much more important is the overall system and process design and how the technology solution vendors are able to reflect the complete set of overarching requirements.

This document looks at the offerings of Pipeline Software, Primavera, SOALogix, Impress, TCR, Prometheus Group, and also reviews the option of building an interface inhouse.