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On Jul 7, 2011, at 4:33 PM, David McFarlane wrote: > Well, I just had a phone call with someone in MSU Payroll, and that person explained a few things that could make a difference in this discussion: > > - SAP was designed for *businesses*, *not* universities. > - No one else makes a system designed for the practices at universities, so SAP was actually the best of all the admitedly insufficienct alternatives at the time. This explanation gets the raised eyebrow from me. The system is being used for the *business* operations of the University; payroll, human resources, budgeting, ordering, invoicing, etc. Are these operations at a university SO different from businesses in the private sector? SAP is deployed across a wide range of business sectors that I find it hard to believe that MSU presented a set of challenges unlike any encountered in previous SAP deployments. Kevin M. Carr ************************** Bioinformatics Specialist Research Technology Support Facility S-20 A Plant Biology Lab Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Ph: (517) 355-6759 x102 Fax: (517) 355-6758 **************************