CRM Tiger

It's almost the long holiday so let's take a look back a few topics: iphone - still enjoying it and it gets useful each day more often bacon salt - just arrived at the house today, thinking of ways to use it iPope - At this point does blackberry, palm, nokia and motorola give up? I mean the Pope will have his own iphone app. No word on whether you can get your iphone blessed, by your local parish priest. Take a look at http://tinyurl.com/pxyonf More details at 11.

https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/14308 You can tell I got pretty motivated to post a "ranting" blog on SCN about a question that was asked. Well here is the background on why I posted what I did: I have been hanging around on SCN for about 4+ years since March of 2005 under my current id. I lurked for about a year or so before then, when I worked for my old employer. The main reason drew me to SCN was the content available. SCN was a radical concept for SAP knowledge sharing that who knows why it took SAP so long to come up with such a site, but lets not digress in that direction. It was useful when I did my first CRM 40 implementation as both the technical and functional lead. Now in the beginning I was a like a lot of people and really posted answers to questions on SCN hoping to get the points. I honestly wanted to get one of the t-shirts and try to "show" off that I could answer the most SAP CRM related questions. During this early stage after a while ...

A few random thoughts for tonight: iphone doing great so far, battery life is my main issue, but overall experience is turning me into an apple fanboy Woot & Bacon Salt - Another woot off today and finally ordered the hopefully tasty bacon salt. There are some inventions that mankind can not top. Well I might post more while waiting for that boc

Back in march I was probably a little harsh on the social CRM strategy from SAP. After seeing it grow for a couple months, I have the found twitter feed to be somewhat interesting. A lot of the content however is links to blogs, which was lousy on mobile until I got the iphone. SAP decided to add another interesting blog to this whole area: https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/14261 The only problem I have now is yet another CRM resource not on SCN.. that is blocked by the corporate firewall. Yes facebook , twitter , blogs are blocked even if they deal with SAP CRM. Luckily for me I have mobile web access via my personal cell phone. The same problem however with vibrant customer participation I think is still there. Vijay Vijayasankar and myself are working on a solution. The hint is that organization is not there from the general community side within SCN/BPX. There needs to be more than people answers questions on forums for points to have a community.

I must admit that I'm a cheapskate and never want to overpay for the latest gadget. In this case I waited out for the iphone 3G and only broke down three days after I could renew at the "new customer price". I will post later about my thoughts on the iphone, but for now lets talk about the customer experience getting there. First issue I had was the fact that my wife wanted, no actually needed a new phone. She was using a "hand-me down" LG, due to the fact that her phone broke and she didn't want to pay full price for a replacement. Her goal was to get a new phone with a qwerty keyboard. As you know mother's day is recently and so is her birthday towards the end of the month. I wanted to be a good husband and try to get her something new. My first problem is that I couldn't spend a lot over rebate. She told me that she would wait if it was too expensive. AT&T had "qwerty" dumbphones for about $200 after rebate unless you wanted a panate...