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CD-ROM
1999

Successful Financial Management (Bean World 2000)

Client: Schindler Elevator Corporation

As the world’s largest escalator company (and second largest elevator company), Schindler Elevator is accustomed to surmounting obstacles when it comes to accomplishing big tasks. When faced with the need to update their SAP accounting procedures, they overcame the apprehension that often comes with change and unfamiliarity. The new procedures not only had to be taught effectively and in a timely manner, but the approach needed to disarm both the trepidation and skepticism of the people who were required to use it. To accomplish this, Successful Financial Management with BW 2000 grabs hold of the inherent comedic value of the accounting phrase “bean counters,” plays with that metaphor throughout, and creates a fun, exploratory environment that even makes learning SAP accounting appealing to non-accountants. It teaches the basic accounting fundamentals inherent to SAP and how to retrieve and read reports.

After entering what appears to be an agonizingly boring CD tutorial, users are quickly thrust into a museum-like microcosm that presents them with a variety of witty venues in which to learn SAP accounting. From the lobby, users can visit a theater to watch Pod Sterling’s Bean Light Zone or Beans in Black. They can also take an elevator to the different floors of the museum, which teach accounting principles in various guises. Beans igNoble is one such floor that teaches important profitability principles within the environment of the bookstore. Ultimately, users confirm their mastery of the material by completing the sometimes abusive game show You Don’t Know Beans.

Although initially intended for Schindler’s US offices, the program was so well received that it was quickly modified for their offices throughout the world.

Because our CD rolled out simultaneously with the SAP product, there were no existing materials on which to base our development. This meant we needed to work in conjunction with several of Schindler’s subject matter experts to develop the training at the same time they were developing their SAP release.

• Developed comic theme
• Wrote content
• Created interface
• Developed custom graphics
• Recorded narration
• Executed programming