[2654] in SAPr3-news
Re: the big 6 or the big con
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nader Dastghaibi)
Mon Apr 14 15:37:18 1997
To: sapr3-news@MIT.EDU
Date: 14 Apr 1997 19:00:30 GMT
From: "Nader Dastghaibi" <ND@SIC.DE>
The true is some where between both oppinions:
Nader Dastghaibi
SIC GmbH
e-mail: ND@SIC.DE
http://WWW.SIC.DE
Jim Hawthorne <jimh@jimboh.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<335264e6.4582276@News.demon.co.uk>...
> 'Lo all
>
> Why is there so much emphasis of wanting to work for the big 6. Most
> SAP contracts these days do NOT require large numbers of consultants
> on site these days - a) it's too expensive - the large firms have
> all done their initial install and implementations, b) imho projects
> run by the big 6 are a mess of burearocracy and produce REAMS and
> REAMS of fairly useless documentation (which is usually obsolete in 6
> months due to release changes or project scope updates),
> c) technical - in particular BASIS support is usually appaling.
> If you want to fill your office with people who spend the whole day
> discussing the problems they had at airport XXXX last week, or what
> they will be doing next week well I suppose it's your money.
> In general you are much better served these days by hiring QUALITY
> INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS who are usually very flexible and can work to
> your organisations standards. In addition these people although
> expensive are MUCH cheaper than using the big 6.
> Finally 2 further points 1) Your organisation remains the OWNER of the
> project, and 2) you don't end up paying to train other people's staff.
> I have seen cases of experienced big 6 employees obtaining the
> contract from a client ---and guess who comes marching in the door on
> Monday morning -- Not the experienced guy but some pimply faced youth
> / las staright out of college.
>
> Any thoughts (including employees from the big con (sorry the big 6))
> Cheers all
> Jim Hawthorne (jimh@jimboh.demon.co.uk)
>
