Friday, November 21, 2008

SAP - on demand

Idea is to have a portal which brings the customers and providers of SAP technical work together. What differentiates it from anything else

- Customers pay for work, not for resources. If it is a 4 hour work, customer pays only for 4 hours.
- A bidding process ensures cheapest price for the work - a win-win. For example customer may be willing to get the work done over weekend and provide remote access, which may cost 20 dollars an hour for the same consultant who otherwise would have costed 150 dollars an hour over weekday (and may not have been available for short adhoc work).

- A backup guarntee that there will be at least one bid. The entity providing the portal will have its delivery arm competing with others, and will ensure that any work posted on the portal gets at least one bid.

- Delivery group will also provide value adds in terms of contract and SLA templates, payment channel, VPN services, technical documentation (eg SOW) templates etc.

- Providers (only individuals) can register for free and bid for any work posted. Portal will charge 5% of contract cost from the provider for any successful bid through the portal. Customers will need to pay a minimal annual registration fee (say 1000 usd per year) for membership.

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