{"id":544,"date":"2007-01-03T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T09:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/03\/sap-crm-projects-at-risk-gartner-says\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T11:28:09","slug":"sap-crm-projects-at-risk-gartner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/03\/sap-crm-projects-at-risk-gartner-says\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP CRM projects at risk, Gartner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Through the end of 2008,<strong> 25% of CRM projects <\/strong>will be <strong>postponed or cancelled<\/strong>, according to <strong>Gartner<\/strong>. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">This rate of postponement and cancellation is largely a result of a <strong>CRM skill shortage <\/strong>&#8212; of consultants and systems integrators in particular &#8212;<strong> the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm <\/strong>says in a recent report. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><strong>SAP CRM projects <\/strong>are more likely than projects involving <strong>other CRM vendors<\/strong> to run into these problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">&#8220;<strong>Demand outstrips supply for skilled, experienced SAP CRM consultants<\/strong>,&#8221; said Matthew Goldman, research director for Gartner. That&#8217;s thanks not only to new <strong>SAP CRM sales<\/strong>, but because many customers held off on deploying CRM until they finished their ERP rollout. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">With this market shortage of qualified resources, how can companies with pending SAP CRM projects avoid these pitfalls?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; of consultants and systems integrators in particular &#8212; the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm says in a recent report. SAP CRM projects are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-others","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}