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Kamaraj Shankar

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CEO, EnTransform

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Over 18 years of progressive experience in ERP, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud and Business Intelligence.

• Championed business-centric enterprise-wide applications architecture spanning across technologies, seamlessly integrating ERP, Custom applications, database and network, under in-house and SaaS models.
• Led 14 large scale global ...

Over 18 years of progressive experience in ERP, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud and Business Intelligence.

• Championed business-centric enterprise-wide applications architecture spanning across technologies, seamlessly integrating ERP, Custom applications, database and network, under in-house and SaaS models.
• Led 14 large scale global BI/ERP projects including implementation/Upgrade/Support and integration.
• Guided multiple fortune 100 companies in implementing and integrating ERP, CRM, business intelligence suite, as well as supply chain management, information life cycle management, and project management tools.
• Managed portfolio of projects of varying complexity, budget and size, in matrix environments. Defined project standards, processes, methodology, and templates for all aspects of project life cycle.
• Directed high performance global teams for solution development, delivery and support. Defined strategy, roadmap and IT Governance; improving collaboration and efficiency across teams.

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Aug. 7, 2011

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What do you think successful people do that others don't?

Successful people focus on being in the news (positively), while others focus on reading that news.

Aug. 3, 2011

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Aug. 3, 2011

Kamaraj Shankar and 7 other people answered this question

Do fixed-price ERP projects protect against expensive cost overruns?

As Jeff pointed out, Fixed-Price ERP projects often end up with cost overruns., due to scope creep and assumptions. The bidder expects to provide standard features for most of the requirements, and the mismatches get discovered later in the project.
In my experience with Fixed-Price projects, ... more

Information Technology

Enterprise Resource Planning

Aug. 3, 2011

Kamaraj Shankar and 1 other person answered this question

Do ERP systems have the ability to detect poor data coming in from feeder systems?

ERP systems can help detect poor data to a large extent, but cannot totally prevent them.
With built in Data Dictionary, Data type checks, reference data checks can take care of poor data with wrong data types and similar problems ( number instead of test ... more

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Data Management

Aug. 3, 2011

Kamaraj Shankar and 3 other people answered this question

Are project managers responsible for operational failures when implementing a new ERP system?

I agree with Rob and John that PM typically gets most of the responsibility for any project failures. Specifically for ERP project implementations, including operational concerns of stake holders into project charter helps the PM to see the expectations much earlier.
Having Phase Gate reviews ... more

Information Technology

Enterprise Resource Planning

Aug. 3, 2011

Kamaraj Shankar and 5 other people answered this question

What the primary challenges of moving ERP to the cloud?

Michael:
Based on your recent post, I understand that you are interested in challenges for moving ERP implementation into a Cloud based SaaS solution.
I assume that you are not referring to moving on-premise ERP into off-premise/hosted ERP model, which is completely different from cloud/SaaS model. ... more

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Cloud Computing

Enterprise Resource Planning

Aug. 2, 2011

Kamaraj Shankar and 5 other people answered this question

Tips for talking your boss out of legacy software and into ERP?

Caty,
Here is my suggestion to guide the leadership team from a business perspective to migrate from Legacy ( I assume Pre-ERP) system to ERP.
During late 80's ERP opened new doors for business to transactions involving multiple countries, currencies, legal entities leveraging global best practices, using ... more

Information Technology

Enterprise Software

Aug. 2, 2011

Kamaraj Shankar and 3 other people answered this question

Can you use Agile on large ERP implementations?

Agile methodology can be applied for large & complex ERP implementations. Typically ERP implementations used Waterfall or vendor/implementor specific methodologies, which had phases such as Requirement, Blue Print, Build, Test/Train an Deploy.
Agile methodology is focused on delivering specific measurable results with close collaboration with ... more

Information Technology

Enterprise Resource Planning

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