SAP (and TRM specifically) Low user-friendliness for non-SAP experienced people

[Former Member]

An advisor commented that he rated SAP as having Low user-friendliness for non-SAP experienced people especially for traders. What should I reply?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi E18

First of all I would like to tell you that a lot of people are answering your questions but you never give any feedback or just leave the task open. We all would appreciate if you could follow the rules as other people do as well.

There are three leading treasury systems in the market, Wall Street, Quantum from Sungard and SAP. SAP is the only integrated system and uses SAP as a base. Most of the customers run SAP already as their ERP system. If you add SAP treasury on top it is already integrated and therefore no issues with interfaces and SOX compliency etc. Quantum and Wall Street might have the easier input screens but you do not follow the complexity in accounting.

Furthermore there must be a reason that major companies are using SAP treasury. Big names like Shell, BHP Billiton, Johnson & Johnson, Volkswagen, etc.

In other words either the person giving that comment does not know anything about treasury or perhaps he has a comission contract with an other provider but definitely no knowledge about systems.

Kind regards

Juerg Heiz

juerg.heiz@treascon.com

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Juerg,

Thanks, The other vendors we are looking at are TriplePoint and Allegro. Do they have fast entry screens and do offer proxy hedging? I do not see a button in this beta version of SDN for giving points... only a Like button?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi E18

Sorry for not answering earlier but I have been on a holiday for one week.

Triple Point is not a treasury solution but rather a commodity trading station. As far as I know you cannot create money market, foreign exchange, derivative instruments and securities. They only handle physical and paper trading for commodities. Allegro Treasury is rather a niche product I would say but definitely the leaders are Sungard, Wall Street and SAP.

Regards

Juerg

juerg.heiz@treascon.com

[Former Member]

Hi E18,

The person who has

commented that  SAP has Low user-friendliness for non-SAP experienced people especially for traders,I am sure he is not aware of the SAP nor about the TRM Module.Any person with simple basic knowledge on TR products/instruments will surely find the module & the ERP package as a whole as

awesome & a true solution to the treasury & accouting department needs,which also takes care of audit part.

As Juerg has already mentioned,SAP is fully integrated with all the modules/sub modules.

Please suggest the person to use the system for few days or for few transactions,after that you take the feedback.I am sure he will take back his words.

Please keep up updated 😉

Regards,

Mridul Mazumdar