SAP sits quietly at the heart of most global businesses, running everything from payroll to procurement, logistics to finance. It’s the system nobody brags about, but everybody depends on. And when someone says “just check SAP,” you know you’re in for more than a click or two.

In this episode, we explore how SAP became the invisible backbone of enterprise life, why it inspires equal parts respect and frustration, and the strange comfort of knowing it’s always there whether you want it to be or not. Because in the end, no matter the industry or the project… SAP happens.

Installing a 5G antenna on a rooftop in downtown Paris sounds simple enough - until reality sets in.

In this episode, we walk thru the saga of a project that required not one, not two, but multiple site visits before the antenna finally worked as expected. Permits, building access, scheduling delays, unexpected power requirements - each visit brought a new twist, each delay a new story.

Was it bureaucracy? Weather? Or just the uniquely French way of doing things?

Join us on the rooftops of Paris for a tale of project planning, technical hurdles, and cultural aspects that turns a routine install into a mini-series of its own.

A pharmaceutical sales team is detained at an international border.

On their tablets: standard product brochures that end up in an escalation into allegations of industrial espionage.

In this episode, we unpack how a well-intentioned directive to preload sales materials onto devices as per strategic choices made in boardrooms can unravel on tarmacs and in detention rooms.

Back home, the IT team is asleep—until the CIO calls in the middle of the night and it’s on IT to contain the fallout of a crisis they didn’t create.