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Marketing vs. Real life – Five minute photobook

 

Surely, I can click on a webshop and purchase a photo book in just 5 minutes but then I also need to select pictures and maybe even add some text to the pictures. This is not a 5 minutes task that’s for sure. Depending how much effort you want to put into this it can take several hours, at the moment I have spent 5 hours on my photo calendar.

So why am I raising this topic? Well, I must come clean and admit that I’m kinda doing the same thing – and it bugs me.

At Figaf we have our SAP PI/PO testing tool IRT and I can set up a test in our own system in just around 5 minutes maybe even shorter. But this is not a real-life scenario when you apply our test tool it will take you a lot longer than 5 minutes.

It can be challenging not to go down the road where you make advertises that states you can make complex testing in just 5 minutes. I have tried to be more realistic and made a backpack where it says “test your full SAP PI/PRO system in days, not months”.

I do believe that this a valid assumption and at Figaf we want to be on the same side and make sure the testing is set-up correctly. But I’m also aware that in some cases it will take longer it could be some weeks and not days.

So how do you see this marketing vs. real life?

Is it okay to say, “set-up a test in 5-minutes” because I can actually show you it can be done or is that a no-go in your opinion?

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Why did i create a SAP PI/PO course

I have seen many developers who were trying to start using the tool, but many did not know where to start. Others couldn’t afford a PI training that could guide them through SAP PI/PO. In other cases, the developer simply missed the course – if your timing is bad, you might have to wait for months in order to enroll in another course.

If you are a new employee, it is quite difficult to wait for the start of a new course. Until then, your role at the company is on par with that of a paperweight. If you are a new developer just waiting around for a new course, you are unable to use your skills to their fullest extent, and you are basically unable to complete the tasks you were hired to do.

This course offers new developers a good foundation. They will be able to understand what components are there in the PI landscape, they will progress in their ability to develop scenarios, and they will be able to understand the projects created by others working at their company, so they can leverage their accumulated knowledge. Furthermore, understanding the work done by others will also lead them to new enhancement ideas.

As I’ve been working as an SAP consultant for approximately 11 years now, I have seen many scenarios. A lot of them were created after I taught people how to use the tool. Whenever I was leaving, I had to be sure that there was someone in the organization who could manage the scenarios and handle whatever was going on.

My consulting experience has provided me with a lot of insight and inspiration for this course. I created the course in order to help people learn and improve their skills quickly. That is my main goal.

If you want to join my SAP PI Training you can join it at the SAP PI/PO training site. On the site you can also find free tutorials that guides you to how to get started and create an end to end scenario.