Blog 1 - Day 1 - An Introduction

I've recently been named the Product Manager for our "All In One" SAP Solutions here at Emergys Corp and I'm truly excited to take on this challenge! My background is Project Management. Not too dissimilar from Product Management ... or so I think now. I thought it would be interesting for me to share the "trials and tribulations" of making this transition in my own personal career and maybe even gain some insight from you, the reader!

What is "All In One"

First off, I think I need to introduce what is meant by "All In One." SAP is an extremely powerful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application. There are literally modules available to run ANY business activity imaginable. Due to this robustness, it can be very over whelming to implement; especially for the "small and medium" size business. By leveraging our own knowledge gained since 1989, we've created solutions for particular business industries. Think of these solutions as a complete application made up of various SAP modules already integrated, configured, developed, tested, and ready to install at your company. These solutions have been test, reviewed, and SAP certified as ready to go. With this approach, we are building on the decades of SAP experience with business process to delivery "best of breed" and industry leading processes to run your business already packaged together and ready to be delivered.

Let me make an analogy. You go to a store and purchase MS Office. It comes with Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, etc. You may not use all of those tools, but you buy that bundle and install them all. It's the same with an AIO Solution. You will obtain 100's of business processes which you may or may not use, but you will have them. So as your business needs change and grow, the solution can change and grow with you.

Likewise, you aren't going to tell Word how to generate a document. It will generate the document the way that Word will generate a document. Frankly, you don't really care about how it does it, just so it does. Now you do want to customize that document: put your name, your address, your logo, etc into that document, but exactly how that document is created is really irrelevant. Likewise with an AIO Solution.

Some people think that they need to tell SAP how to run their business they way they have always run their business. But guess what? That may not be the smartest thing. Is the way you're running your business buying you a competitive advantage? Is it generating revenue as efficiently and effectively as you could? Or are your processes today being done because that's what worked when you started and you've not bothered to change or improve them.

AIO offers you the chance to use the best of breed processes to make changes that streamline the business in an integrated ERP solution that will grow as your business grows.

Okay, okay, I know I'm sounding like a sales guy ... but I'm really a passionate guy about this next step in my career!

Thanks for reading along...