SAP-Centric Projects

Let's get down to it: My Recommendations

In short my recommendations are:

• Pipeline Software if you are looking for a reasonably priced platform-independent, highly functional and high-performance solution that directly addresses the buisness problems at hand, with quick deployment times due to lots of out-of-the-box capabilities.
• Primavera if you want to minimize the number of vendors that you are dealing with, and if you are looking for a solution totally based on the SAP-XI platform, jointly supported with AP, and offering the name and commitment not just of Primavera but - at least to a degree - of SAP as well.
• SOALogix if you do approach your selection from a technology angle more so than a process one [which I usually do not recommend] and are looking for a low-end (compared to IBM, SAP or BEA) integration framework and EAI tool sitting on standard technologies like XML and Java that gives you scalability to rapidly design integration solutions with minimum overhead - but also not necessarily purely project management, SAP, or Primavera centric.

Let me explain some general points about this below. The various solutions on the market (including those I do not recommend) are evaluated in more detail in a solution paper that you can download under our solution menu.