We have a client that wants to get rid of their IBM mainframe and SAP.

We've done fresh deployments of custom tailored ERP solutions in VMware and in the cloud, which is the direction I was going to recommend before talking to them. I don't personally know anyone with over 1000 employees that is using SaaS, although I understand this is the reality of things to come. Adapt or die.

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Posted by TigerRagAndrew

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Posted on 8/28/15 at 10:02 am to Asgard Device

God help the CIO that spearheads an ERP cloud deployment during the first extended WAN outage.

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Posted by TigerRagAndrew

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Posted on 8/28/15 at 10:03 am to Asgard Device

Also the biggest mistake was likely adopting SAP in the first place.

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Posted by Asgard Device

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Posted on 8/28/15 at 11:10 am to TigerRagAndrew

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Also the biggest mistake was likely adopting SAP in the first place.

I used to do SAP implementations and now I'm "saving" people from it. Powerful product but it's an albatross.

Unfortunately there are some managers that are so turned off they just want to move entirely to SaaS so that it becomes somebody else's problem to maintain.

What we prefer to do is use .net/c# and a few other custom, but highly standardized applications to create a cost-effective and flexible solution. Entirely virtualized on commodity x86 servers and storage.

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Posted by TigerRagAndrew

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Posted on 8/28/15 at 2:01 pm to Asgard Device

I'm greatly enjoying this extended Level3 outage fwiw. All the corporate people are shitting their pants while the local custom .Net/SQL stuff hums along.

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