How Accurate Was SAP on Type 2 Indirect Access Being a Legitimate Claim?

ByShaun Snapp

Executive Summary

  • For years SAP has made several claims around indirect access.
  • In this article, we review the accuracy of these claims. 

What SAP Said About on Indirect Access

To be clear, when SAP uses the term indirect access, they are not referring to the indirect access that is legitimate but rather to an extension of the term. We cover this vital distinction in the article How to Best Understand Type 1 Versus Type 2 Indirect Access. Type 2 indirect access is where SAP claims that any system connected to SAP is a form of indirect access and maybe (subject to SAP’s discretion) be subject to a charge. SAP has pushed this claim through a highly complicit IT media, as SAP has virtually every entity that distributes information about SAP either paid by SAP or part of a business model based on SAP. See how accurate SAP was in this claim.

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Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this article.

  • This is published by a research entity, not some lowbrow entity that is part of the SAP ecosystem. 
  • Second, no one paid for this article to be written, and it is not pretending to inform you while being rigged to sell you software or consulting services. Unlike nearly every other article you will find from Google on this topic, it has had no input from any company's marketing or sales department. As you are reading this article, consider how rare this is. The vast majority of information on the Internet on SAP is provided by SAP, which is filled with false claims and sleazy consulting companies and SAP consultants who will tell any lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts -- who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

The Truth About SAP’s Type 2 Indirect Access

SAP is wrong about type 2 indirect access. They are not only wrong, but our proposal is also that SAP’s indirect access is a violation of US antitrust law, as we covered in the article How SAP’s Indirect Access is a Violation of Tying Agreement Clause of US Anti Trust Law.

Conclusion and Calculation

SAP receives a 0% accuracy on its claims around indirect access being a valid construct.

Link to the Parent Article

This is one of many research articles on a specific topic that supports a larger research calculation. For the overview of the research calculation for all of the SAP topics that were part of the study, see the following primary research A Study into SAP’s Accuracy.