After investing millions of dollars into your core business software application SAP, the last thing you want to do is NOT use is rich and integrated functionality. Then of course managers, schedulers and contractors of mission-critical projects show up, pointing at the user-friendliness of scheduling tools like Primavera (click here for tips about SAP-Primavera Integration). Immediately you find yourself in a dilemma: Do you use SAP-only project management tools like PS (or PM and IM), or do you let your users (or at least your contractors) deal with supposed best-of-breed software like Primavera or MS Project? At least they get the critical job done, right? And you deal with the SAP stuff later...

However, if the latter, to what degree do you enforce standards, and how do you interface the systems? How do you set up an effective and efficient system that takes advantage of the strengths of SAP on an enterprise-level, while also keeping control of the project level?

Like with most questions about complex situations, you better take a step back and look at the bigger picture, zooming in from there. Because for whatever good money our clients invested in project management tools, it is far outstripped by what they invested in SAP: It is their only fully integrated enterprise business management application and platform.