About

I am a South African involved in the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software field, and work for ERP vendor SYSPRO in Johannesburg; my role is Product and Industry Marketing.

My career spans technical and database programming; data warehousing and decision support software; marketing and business partner management; and over 10 years of ERP sales, support and project management. I have worked in and around JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SYSPRO.

Although I have never worked with any pioneers of ERP, I was fortunate enough once to work with date warehousing pioneer, Ralph Kimball.

With Ralph Kimball in 1995

The comments I make here are my personal views. I follow the IBM Social Computing Guidelines for the items published in my blog.

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shel israel

6 July 2007 at 01:37 | #1

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Simon,

Thanks for leaving a comment on my site regarding the SAP Global Survey. I would love to ask you some questions on South Africa for the survey to be posted on my site. If you are interested, could you ping me by email. Thanks, so much.
Bobby

11 February 2008 at 18:36 | #2

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Hi Simon,
I came across your blog recently as I was doing some research on ERP. I had
a few questions and was wondering what would be the best way to get in contact with you to discuss a few of them?

Thanks!
Bobby
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bpham@bnrsearch.com
Howard

8 May 2008 at 14:45 | #3

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Hi Simon. Id be interested to see what project management software you are using for your ERP work. We use Vertabase (http://www.vertabase.com.) that enables teams to focus on innovation because it supplies web2.0 tools that enable creative conversations and group wisdom. What are your thoughts?
Mark

13 May 2009 at 14:55 | #4

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Hi Simon,

I have been following your blog for a while and thought of you when i was given a recent video piece to promote. That is because its about ERP systems and manufacturing. Its done in a humorous style and i think you will quite like it. I was wondering whether you might be interested in using it on your blog.

http://www.k3scs.com/the-factory/episode-four/4/

Cheers

Mark