Indian businesses today are sailing throught a wave of myriad opportunities brought about by globalization, but at the same time are slowed down by orgaizational readiness to seize the opportunities. while there is no doubt that these organizations have enormous technical and managerial talent, limited process discipline and information technolgy infrastructure have been the shortcomings for a while now. it is therefore not a matter of surprise that a number of indian businesses are turning to SAP to solve both the problems by adopting best- in - class processes and establishing the state - of the art ERP & IT infrastructure. while larger organizations with larger IT budgets are way ahead in adoption of SAP, medium and small enterprises are on the fast track to adopt world" s best practices and become globally competivie.