If SAP Built an Electric Car

You gotta admire people who have a sense of humor about what their company does:

You need to buy a minimum of 5 cars in license

You need at least 1/2 year to adapt your street, garage and parking space to use your SAP ECar

But you can run it on bicycle tires, train tracks and hula hoop-rings

The door handles are on the underside of the car

The steering wheel makes 20 clicking sounds when you turn it, because all 4 tires – including the spare tire – send back multiple messages

You can see your whole driving record, but not the current street that you drive, because of missing authorizations

The repair contract was just increased from 17% to 22% fee, though simple repairs take 2 weeks; but they are available 24/7

The driver’s seat has 250 switches and controls, but because of a bug that will be fixed with SP7 (release date still unknown), the back of the seat is stuck in complete forward position

The gauge is configurable in km/h, miles/h, steps per seconds, wing bats per millisecond and WARP

The exchange of the battery can only be done with external consultants, but they are already fully booked for the next 12 months. As workaround you receive a 10 miles long power cord

The engine is scaled for a Jumbo and has only two settings: Off and Full Throttle

The brakes react only after 7 seconds because of authorization checks

But you can scale passengers indefinitely by clustering multiple cars

The speed is displayed as ABAP-report

The manual comes as a Powerpoint slide deck

H/T to Jim Fisher at Gaspar Partners for sending me the link… he found it on Marc Benioff’s Facebook profile.

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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant. Home About Venture Chronicles About Venture Chronicles My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant. Along the way to becoming a bona fide blogger I started to understand the implications of user generated content. At the time I was a venture capitalist for SAP, the enterprise software company, and in my travels in the enterprise software market it became evident that blogging would be a powerful communication channel for enterprises to use, what we now call social media, and a powerful information collection mechanism for bottom up corporate intelligence. Combined with search technology, social networking software, and wikis, I was witnessing the inception of an entirely new generation of knowledge management software. I am currently the VP Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction, the simple and effective way to build online communities that enable productive conversations between companies and their customers. Over 50,000 companies use Get Satisfaction to create a social support experience, build better products, realize SEO benefits, and take advantage of brand loyalty behaviors that results in strong word of mouth marketing experiences in the market. I can be reached at jnolan-at-gmail-dot-com.

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