Cartoon Contest — It’s Simple!

[timoelliott]

Welcome to an experiment!

I’d like to try to tempt you to take part in a New-Yorker-style cartoon caption contest. I'm hoping that this will be an opportunity to unleash the pent-up humor genes of the global SCN community.

I’m afraid there are no prizes (legally, it’s hopelessly complicated), but you will win the undying admiration of the community, and (if you’re game) we’ll feature the winning entry here on SCN and elsewhere.

Here’s the incomplete cartoon:

Rules

• Just come up with the funniest phrase you can to illustrate the cartoon above, and enter it as a comment to this post
• You have 7 days from today to submit your entry in order to take part in the judging.
• Multiple entries are fine — but remember the goal is quality rather than quantity
• Please be nice — sarcasm is fine, but defamation and insults wouldn’t be cool...
• Don’t hesitate to (respectfully) add your own spin to somebody else's entry — the name of the game is collaboration.
• Vote for your favorite comments/captions by clicking the "like" button below each entry
• If you'd like to be notified about new entries, click on the "receive email notifications" or "track" in the Actions box to the right of this post.

And if you think this is a fun idea, please spread the word!

[UPDATE: And The Winners Are: Cartoon Caption Contest Winners] -- many thanks to all who participated!

[Andrea1]

43 years of experience!!!

[former_member218373]

…then you plug in the iWatch and charge the battery

[Former Member]

Variant: Then we put a smokescreen in front of the hosting service and call it a cloud.

[Former Member]

This is from my side.. what according to you.

will try to fit in the same thing.

[former_member218196]

We just reimagined the business suite, and for that matter, simplicity!

[Former Member]

..and if you buy two you'll get HANA for free!

[Former Member]

Ok, we still don't know what it does. But it runs with green energy, has won a diversity award and will be cloud-ready by next version!

[gerlinde_zibulski]

This is our newest innovation.

What we haven't quite figured out yet, is how to make it divide  0/∞.

But we're working on it.

[former_member26693]

Michael took his home beer brewing very seriously

[former_member26693]

and whenever anyone asks why we want to simplify we just show them this!

[Former Member]

SIMPLIFY and RUN BETTER

[Former Member]

Project Name "Complify"

[MatthiasEsch]

Our new User Interface will provide easy access to all functions. Besides Engineering, User Navigation is one of our core competencies.

[Former Member]

At first view it looks like time machine but believe me it really saves a lot of time!

[prashantha_hj]

Is there any "hope in this chaos"?

"Yes sir, it's called HANA-IoT"

[Former Member]

New CIO (with his hand raised): "What in the name of HANA is that???"

IT director (Guy with arms crossed): It is not a system......it is a Legacy!!! 

New CIO : *facepalm*

[Former Member]

Some say, it never runs out of space and is always available. All we know is that it's called The Cloud.

[Former Member]

I know it’s meant to do the laundry, but last time we ran it we found the Higgs

Boson.

[former_member16241]

"After we simplified the process, we came up with this!"

[mylesfenlon]

"This one goes up to eleven..."

[former_member16241]

"Thanks to the cloud, we can sell this junk."

[abdul_hakeem]

You  know Joe...  this is stupid machine costed us 12X to deploy  and its 5 years TCO is 25X.. . I wish this machine makers take some inspiration from run simple strategy of our software guys (SAP)

[former_member218370]

Guess - where is the start ?

[Former Member]

The works council forced us to implement Gamification in the data center as well. The team calls it "Snakes & Ladders".

[kakshat]

"Somewhere in there is a bug. GO FIND IT!"

[Former Member]

"You see this has got all you mentioned: it´s small - it´s easy to support - it´s low cost! Okay... we exceeded the budget a little bit, but - who cares!"

[former_member89408]

Isn't it the best integration ever possible?

or

Isn't it the integration you have been dreaming about?

[Former Member]

Wow !!! You have invented a new Design Pattern.

But I am still searching for 2 developers, did you see them anywhere ? :???:

[Former Member]

-Tada!

-Sure, it looks complicated but just read the specs and the how to's...its easy. Best cup of coffee I've ever had.

-...then put the potato here and voila! It works like charm!

[Former Member]

Give me a "c"  !

[jrg_wulf]

Just 6 months and 15 consultants to tweak the system to your needs and there you are.

No other potatoe peeling machine will beat it's results.

                              or

So this is our new QX2020 and your job will be to design the UI.

The objective is that even nice little old ladies and quiche eaters can operate it..

[Former Member]

This is the solution we call "Dynamic Tiering"

[matt]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present: a better mousetrap.

[lucyrosenberger]

"And this my dear friend, is our Cloud!!"   "Designed to keep all your data safe!"

[kakshat]

"Are you sure this will help men understand women?"

[markus_meisl]

And as a long-standing SAP customer, you'll be glad to hear that with its move to the Cloud SAP will move all THAT to its data centers, run it for you and give you simple access to what you need through intuitive Fiori UIs...

[former_member218513]

No one knows what the cloud is, right? Tadaaaa - THIS is the cloud.

[former_member218513]

With this thing, paperless office is not a dream anymore.

[former_member218513]

So, Dr. Brown, you claim that you can simplify our flux capacitor so it can fit in a DeLorean? Yeah, right!

[Former Member]

"My fifth finger is in one of those contraptions."

[Former Member]

It did look simpler, when the boss drew it on a beermat the other night...

[Former Member]

Yes, it's 155 years old. But stick it into the basement at amazon web services and link it to the web - here we go: a cloud service 🙂

[Former Member]

This? Oh, it produces 100% green energy from air. But we switched it of as it doesn't fit into our cloud strategy.

[Former Member]

Willy Wonka joins SAP.

[Former Member]

"We bought it from the Cybermen. Step this way."

[francois_vigneron]

And documentation is on the shelf over there.

[JayThvV]

1) ... And this entire legacy production line over here is fully orchestrated, controlled and monitored by that one little HANA box there in the corner.

2) This is what 5 years of Agile Sprints and no backlog control got us...

[Former Member]

We're still on JDE Edwards.

[Former Member]

HANA bo bana.

[Former Member]

It runs on Microsoft Microbrewery.