The transformation of commerce continues at a relentless pace. If you look at commerce innovation from a historical perspective, the biggest enablers for companies to innovate and take their business to the next level of productivity were ERP and Su...
When you ask people what they understand when they hear the term "Quote-to-Cash", you will get a very broad range of reactions and responses. The reaction will typically depend on your experience, perspective, your role, as well as your experience wi...
I am generally curious what it is like to buy an ERP system for the first time. I would assume that one does not come to the SAP community first, but starts with a search. So, as an experiment, today I typed in the following question into Google:
"T...
When I joined SAP in 2005, I received an important piece of advice. My mentor at the time said:
It's not what you know, or who you report to,
it's about who you know, and how to find somebody that can help you.
This advice is still true. Of course th...
Maybe you have heard of the trolley problem: If not, check it out at this link:
TLDR: The trolley problem is essentially a thought experiment about an ethical dilemma. The imaginary situation forces the reader between two choices, neither of which a...
Having been in the industry since the early 80's (I know I am dating myself here), I can really see that this area is a new stage of evolution for IT. In the early days, ERP was mostly about finance and supply chain management, and only added all the...
It will be interesting to see what happens in this space in the next few years. In some conversations some people called this the amazonification of the world i.e. where every brand is expected to know you intimately, and offer whatever you want nea ...
I also updated the blog post to add a video link to the analyst vendor MGI who specialize on this topic and provide an outside in market perspective
https://mgiresearch.com/agile-monetization-platform/
Indeed. That is one of the reasons I think the term "Quote to Cash" does not quite capture the depth of the transformation here. This is a topic that spans multiple areas of competence, not just Sales and Finance, but also Technology, since the monet...
Hi Trishul,
yes good point. This is one of the objectives. We are looking for a standardized description of the process (activity or outcome) and decouple that from the naming of the solution component that delivers the outcome.