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Written by Berthold Kastel   
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4. Software vendors should be project management process experts.

Processes are more important than technology. Technjologies need to be open, thin, allow tailoring of solutions, and so on. Understanding project management, however, and as it pertains specifically to SAP and Primavera is much more critical. Whenever a vendor focuses too much on technology as a sales argument a warning flag should go up. End-users need to be satisfied, data needs to be made available for effective decision-making, double-entries should be eliminated - this is what we try to achieve. The bits and bytes are secondary.

 

A vendor of integration software applications addressing a specific business problem should not have any technical challenge with any coherently expressed, consistent and logical business process. If they do then it is a sign of underlying design issues, technical and functional limitations, or inexperience.

 

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1 ABAP - SAP's proprietary programming language "Allgemeiner Bericht-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor"



 
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6. How open is your technology?

 

It is so easy to say "yes" and "we are open" - but what does that mean? You may want to get more specific and try to find out what that really means.

 

Are you using any proprietary technology that is not open? Do you support all Java/J2EE compliant web application servers (like WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, NetWeaver)? Can you please name all programming languages you used to build your application?


Questions like these should flush out your real support needs, risk and potential vendor dependency.