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Through the end of 2008, 25% of CRM projects will be postponed or cancelled, according to Gartner.

This rate of postponement and cancellation is largely a result of a CRM skill shortage — of consultants and systems integrators in particular — the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm says in a recent report.

SAP CRM projects are more likely than projects involving other CRM vendors to run into these problems.

“Demand outstrips supply for skilled, experienced SAP CRM consultants,” said Matthew Goldman, research director for Gartner. That’s thanks not only to new SAP CRM sales, but because many customers held off on deploying CRM until they finished their ERP rollout.

With this market shortage of qualified resources, how can companies with pending SAP CRM projects avoid these pitfalls?

SAP Opens a Retail Center of Excellence to enable Indian retailers harness the power of technology for growth in a highly competitive market; SUN Microsystems to be the infrastructure partner for the Retail CoE

Building on its market leadership in providing business software to retailers in India and globally, SAP India announced its latest initiative for the highly competitive Indian retail market – opening of a SAP Center of Excellence (CoE) for Retail. The SAP Retail CoE would function out of SAP’s Mumbai facility.

“Today, Indian and global retailers are vying to tap the high potential Indian market and as a result, majority of retailers are facing numerous market and internal pressures that impede their ability to foster growth and improve profitability”, said Alan Sedghi, President and CEO, SAP Indian Sub-continent, inaugurating the SAP Retail CoE

Stepping out of B-school into the real world is like learning golf from manuals, or like teaching yourself cricket online. You have all the required theoretical inputs; a clear understanding of the rule book, the jargon and concepts; a dash of history to boot; and anecdotes and trivia as fillers.

The real world teaches you some home truths that academia does not touch upon. In our journey down the road of experience, some of them get etched as gospels

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Some time ago, I saw the Forbes’ rich list. It has always been wonderful to read about the successful juntas across the world. I explored web world to find out some facts and trivias about these billionaires. I picked names of the top 200 guys, and I couldn’t stop my analytical skills to get something interesting facts that was unknown to me before

Sanduk Ruit needs just seven minutes to cut away a cataract and restore sight for destitute people. With 50,000 operations under his belt he wants to do the delicate procedure thousands of times more.

In the last 15 years, the remote Himalayan nation of Nepal has seen at least 13 government changes, a bloody Maoist revolt, a palace massacre and a royal takeover.

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