http://blog.managingautomation.com/edge/2009/09/will-siemens-dump-sap-maintenance/ A Discussion of Business & Technology Issues Critical to Manufacturers Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:40:07 -0500 hourly 1 http://blog.managingautomation.com/edge/2009/09/will-siemens-dump-sap-maintenance/comment-page-1/#comment-938 William S Ely Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:30:28 +0000 http://blog.managingautomation.com/edge/?p=489#comment-938 Very interesting article. It will quite interesting to see how this pans out. It is amazing how many companies invest so much in the ERP vision, don't get the value, then try to force it...then try to back away...not a real good competitive strategy given the barrier to exit is so high. Once an ERP vendor becomes so entrenched these companies don't have a lot of options...especially if they are smaller. Open architected solutions give them better options to ensure there is some kind of competitive dynamic, so if the vendor increases maintenance, underperforms or underinvest in future product, they can be replaced...if you give ERP too much, this is very, very difficult to do. Didn't we learn this stuff in our business 101 classes, aka Michael Porter anyone? Very interesting article. It will quite interesting to see how this pans out. It is amazing how many companies invest so much in the ERP vision, don’t get the value, then try to force it…then try to back away…not a real good competitive strategy given the barrier to exit is so high. Once an ERP vendor becomes so entrenched these companies don’t have a lot of options…especially if they are smaller. Open architected solutions give them better options to ensure there is some kind of competitive dynamic, so if the vendor increases maintenance, underperforms or underinvest in future product, they can be replaced…if you give ERP too much, this is very, very difficult to do. Didn’t we learn this stuff in our business 101 classes, aka Michael Porter anyone?

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