Ralph Hess — Executive Vice President | Navigator Business Solutions | SAP Gold Partner | Sharing 30+ years of ERP war stories and insights!
Executive Vice President | Navigator Business Solutions | SAP Gold Partner | Sharing 30+ years of ERP war stories and insights!
Ralph Hess ranks #304 of 19,190 LinkedIn creators in Computer Software, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 7.1K followers and published 37 posts in the last 30 days at a 1.1% average engagement rate.
- 7.1K followers
- 37 posts / 30d
- 1.1% avg engagement
- 639 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Ralph shares 30 years of ERP war stories, which explains why his engagement rate is a hostage negotiation where both sides stopped talking. Posting 36 times a month to reach 0.47 percent of his followers is just shouting technical support manuals at a graveyard.
About Ralph
We are Navigator Business Solutions is a global leader in Cloud Based ERP Solutions from SAP AG. Delivering rapid time by combining cloud based solutions with a predictive and proven best-practices approach to implementation and customer engagement. With industry vertical expertise in Consumer Products, Automotive and Life Sciences Navigator has build a fast growing business that deploys its solutions utilizing its highly skilled professional services team; leading to successful projects and satisfied customers.Be sure to contact me at Ralph.Hess@nbs-us.com to discuss your business challenges. Visit us at www.nbs-us.com www.nbs-us.com/ralph
Highlights
- Consistent Creator — 21 posts in 30d · top 5%
- Top 5% in Computer Software — Ranked #203 of 4695 creators
- Top 10% in United States — Ranked #341 of 5940 creators
- Top Engager — 0.92% rate · top 25%
Recent posts
A CEO pitched me his AI strategy for ten minutes. One question ended it. We were at an event. He was lit up. "We're all in on AI, were building agents. The board loves it." Everyone at the top is doing this right now. It's the new golf. The guys at the club comparing AI initiatives like watches. Who's team is on Claude and why, who's on Gemini, who's got agents doing what. I let him finish. Then I asked the only question that matters. "What system is the AI reading from?" Pause. "We've... got a few. Some SAP. Some spreadsheets. A couple of legacy things from an acquisition." There it is
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SAP NEWS: SAP sent 20,000 ECC customers an offer they can't ignore forever. Half your maintenance spend redirected to cloud migration, in exchange for access to SAP's AI roadmap. That's the deal on the table. I've been watching this play out in conversations all week. The customers sitting on ECC aren't slow or careless, most of them stayed because the system still works and the migration felt optional. SAP just made it feel less optional. This is how enterprise software companies move markets. They don't kill legacy systems overnight. They make the future expensive to avoid. Forty years o
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A CEO told me SAP was a four-letter word. He wasn't joking. "We looked at SAP. Too big. Too expensive. Took our competitor two years to set up and cost them a fortune." I still hear a version of this every couple of months. I get it…Everybody has heard about a bad SAP project from 2009. The stories are real. But the product those people are describing doesn't exist anymore. SAP spent the last ten years taking 50 years of capability and compressing it into something you configure in months, not years. The horror stories are about a car that isn't on the lot anymore. I told him that. Then
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