SCX Appeal

"We help SAP consultants enhance their professional skills, reputations and business opportunities."
--The SAP Consulting Exchange

No, I haven’t gone out of business or stopped blogging. I’ve been temporarily absent here because an old friend called to ask if I would help him launch a new business — one that’s creating quite a buzz in the world of enterprise resource planning.

The business is called the SAP Consulting Exchange (SCX for short). I’ve been involved with the project since its inception, consulting on site architecture and branding materials, and writing virtually 100% of the web copy. I’m also helping my friend — his name is Herbert Goertz — launch several “endorsed services” the site will offer, including sales training and resume writing. (Guess who’s writing the resumes.)



Back in the day, Herbert launched the first SAP consulting practices in North and South America. He and I met when I wrote the original KPMG (now BearingPoint) SAP practice brochure.

SCX is two things. One is a sort of online support group for SAP consultants, providing things like SAP software access and the above-mentioned endorsed services — pretty much whatever will help consultants move forward faster in their careers. But SCX is also the foundation of something bigger — a sort of virtual consultancy — modeled very much like a peer-to-peer task-sharing network computing architecture. Rather than rely on large centralized hiring bureaucracies, the SCX will give consultants and clients the tools they need to connect with each other. In SAP parlance, every consultant moves up to “tier-1” — meaning they get to keep a lot more of what they make.

It’s interesting how challenging economic times inspire people to become highly creative. I’m currently working with some other interesting “behind the scenes” initiatives as well and I look forward to blogging about those soon too.