Dancing with procurement

Some notes for reminding when you are dancing with your customer procurement department. This is pure negotiation, there is not IT or project logic at this point. There are conditions and a transaction in place. The customer IT lead that requested you the offer, is not the decision maker for a while. He will be … Read more

Demand

There is people that are so demanding with almost everything. I would like to clarify that have not problem with it, I understand we all receive a lot of pressure and demand to deliver in the position of the chain we are; we take that demand, organize it, share it with others and then we … Read more

SAINT Tool

I was reviewing how the Vistex add on was installed on SAP and I learned a basic information I did not know: SAINT SAP and other companies offer a wide range of add-ons that you can use to enhance your standard SAP system, it can be Industry Solutions, plug-ins, or customer-specific development projects. SAP Add-On … Read more

Doing interviews

Interview people for your teams is not easy thing, specially when you want to enroll someone to your company and is an experience professional. At the end of the day, everything is related to the needs of both sides of the negotiation, but there are so many areas you need to cover in your interview … Read more

Linkedin for SalesForce

Linkedin for SalesForce, this is other business development activity done between these two companies that have demonstrated how to leverage new niches of collaboration and partnership. SalesForce offers its customers the way to improve their sales, Linkedin offers the access to probably the bigger data warehouse of professional people. Sales people use to have a … Read more

OpenRemote

Looking into the evolution of the home automation, I found OpenRemote, that defines it self as “the professional open source middle-ware for an Internet of Things”. It’s a great idea/system – but I would like to see if this will become an standard so the time the industry invests promotes to have cheap prices and … Read more

WordPress plugins

For my poor memory, 1.- Contact Form 7 – Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. 2.- Force Regenerate Thumbnails – Useful if your site already have a lot of content and images. Allows you to delete all old images … Read more

Evolving on SAP knowledge

My background is not SAP, but since last 3 years I’m delivering different services as LoS Lead related to SAP. The Service Managers are great professionals and that give me very good explanations about processes, modules, technical aspects… I’m not an expert, and it will take really so much years or a drastic change of … Read more

A different way of doing things

I’m visiting a customer and we have talked about the different initiatives they are working. They are a medium size business unit that belongs to a big corporation and that due to the agreements they have, they keep some type of independence in terms of IT. They have their own IT road-map and budget. Both … Read more