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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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4. What do you know about Primavera?

Let's not assume that a vendor is an expert in Primavera. One may be surprised, particularly when looking at the interface as a mainly technical issue. Often internal IT departments who get concerned about "throwing good money after bad money" have the tendency to look at the integration issue from that side. Some EAI vendors are the same, and companies (mainly service organizations) that have worked with SAP for many years - but not with Primavera.

 

This question has two dimensions. First, how extensively have you worked with the Primavera Java API? Second, how well do you know how to map fields and processes in Primavera with SAP?