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James Bond: SolMan is not enough!

007: The film "The World is Not Enough" is certainly still well remembered by older generations or sworn James Bond fans (Pierce Brosnan).
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
January 15, 2019
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This text has been automatically translated from German to English.

One label for this movie is "gigantomania". The development of the SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) was also a gigantic undertaking - the result: an egg-laying wool-milk sow that misses the mark.

Why?

With version 7.2, SAP has once again demonstrated its innovative strength and added hundreds of new functions. However, SAP has also lost contact with its existing customers and SAP Basis and hardly knows what is happening in the data centers and in the cloud.

SAP is marketing-driven and no longer listens to its customers. The result: anyone running a B2B or B2C web store with ERP/ECC 6.0, Hybris, SAP CRM, Adobe and SAS will not be satisfied with SolMan.

For consistent and transparent release management, system copy for Hybris (with SAP Board resources?), monitoring and automation, the existing SAP customer needs massive external help and tools.

SolMan is not enough for e-commerce for existing SAP customers! The latest E-3 edition is now available to ensure that you have enough information and knowledge for your SAP installations.

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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