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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Enterprise Software
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The image above is not a real book, not an attempt to say that the publisher would publish it. It is a parody of...
Brightwork Notice: No New Published SAP or Oracle Research as of August 2020
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We are changing our publishing approach. This is due to the revenue issues we have been experiencing, which is due to the following:
Why SAP and Oracle Have Such Problem Building their Clouds
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While currently, both vendors cannot talk enough about the cloud, both vendors fought against the cloud for many years (and we have the evidence in this book). These vendors behaved this way as they knew that...
How to Understand SAP’s Fictional Cloud Revenues
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SAP released the following explanation for a recent layoff.
"Yet key indicators showed signs of weakness in the fourth quarter, with growth...
How SAP Plans to Markup Cloud Service Providers to High Profitability
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One of the most interesting developments in the public cloud is how the public cloud service providers like AWS or GCP or Azure will work with the on-premises vendors. Often things are presented by companies...
Our IoT Platform Review of SAP, IBM and AWS
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This study was commissioned by a prospect during their vendor selection journey. The customer is a regional luxury hotel chain based in Dubai, UAE. The requirements were pretty straightforward.
How to Understand SAP’s Upcharge as a Service Cloud
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We analyzed SAP Cloud, trying to figure out how it adds any value. And we think that SAP may have created a new cloud offering, but without telling anyone.
SAP Accuracy Articles
How Accurate Was SAP in Keeping S/4HANA Exclusive to HANA?
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What SAP Said About Keeping S/4HANA Exclusive to HANA
When SAP introduced S/4HANA, they made the very unusual policy of making S/4HANA and HANA a packaged deal. This meant that S/4HANA could only work on HANA, which pushed out...
How Accurate Was SAP in Projecting Qualtrics as a Strategic Acquisition?
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This article (mostly the latter part of the article) was published on the 1st of May in 2020. At that point, we had enough information to declare that we had predicted the Qualtrics acquisition as a failure...
How Accurate Was SAP in Saying it is Leonardo that Ensures Frozen Ice Cream Delivery?
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What SAP Said About Leonardo Ensuring Frozen Ice Cream Delivery
SAP proposed in a video that Leonardo was essential to the delivery of ice cream.
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How Accurate Was SAP in Calling All Non-HANA DB’s Legacy?
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What SAP Said About All Non-HANA DB's Legacy
SAP has repeatedly stated that all non-HANA databases that compete with HANA are legacy.
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How Accurate Was SAP on Only SAP HANA Being an ACID Database?
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What SAP Said About Only SAP HANA Being an ACID Database
SAP made some strange statements about HANA being the only ACID database. Or that it was the single ACID database with several other features....
How Accurate Was SAP on S/4HANA in the Cloud Being Easily Extended?
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What SAP Said About S/4HANA in the Cloud Being Easily Extended
SAP released a major paper titled SAP S/4HANA Extensibility for Customers and Partners. In this paper, SAP...
How Accurate Was SAP on Parallel Processing Working in SNP?
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What SAP Said About Parallel Processing Working in SNP
For years SAP included a parallel processing field in the SNP optimizer, giving the impression that one could choose how many processors to address in the optimization.
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Indirect Access Articles
Dealing with Surprise SAP License Charges: Indirect Access
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Introduction to Indirect Access License Charges
This article will focus on an issue that is very much under the radar, which is license audits.
So what are license audits, many...
How Accurate Was ASUG on its S/4HANA Poll?
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The first thing to note about the ASUG poll is that ASUG provided no numbers about who took the survey. Nothing. No numbers about how many participants there were, industry the customers were from, nothing.
But something else...
ASUG’s Biased and Inaccurate Coverage of SAP Indirect Access
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For some time, I have questioned ASUG's independence from SAP. And this questioning was reinforced through checking with several others who routinely go to...
The Problem with SAP User Groups on S/4HANA for AnyDB
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This is a perfect time for SAP user groups to pressure SAP to open S/4HANA to other databases. However, who can do this?
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Warning of a Potential Extension of SAP Indirect Access to Basis
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Indirect access was first applied to SAP applications and then was extended to HANA. SAP has been very effective in using indirect access to coerce software sales out of customers. Therefore it is a natural question as to whether SAP would extend indirect access and indirect access charges to other parts of SAP.
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How SAP’s Partnership Agreement Blocks Vendors from Fighting Indirect Access
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Introduction to How SAP Controls its Partner Network
At Brightwork, we have written quite a few articles on SAP implementation of Type 2 indirect access.
In this article, we will cover how...
The Problem with Corevist’s Presentation of SAP and Indirect Access
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SAP Fiori
How Jelena Perfiljeva Strongly Agrees with Brightwork’s Analysis of SAP Fiori
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We have sounded the alarm on Fiori for several years; a sampling of this coverage can be found in the article What is Actually...
Why Josh Greenbaum Continually Carries Water for SAP
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SAP has numerous analysts who are in some way financially connected to them, and that will say anything for them. These are the same analysts quoted in TechTarget when they want to run an article paid for by SAP....
Why it is Time to Move on From SAP’s UI Promises
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We have sounded the alarm on Fiori for several years; a sampling of this coverage can be found in the article What is Actually in the Fiori Box? And in...
What Detailed Functional Testing of SAP Fiori Shows
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Introduction: The Reality of Fiori
SAP has made grand claims around Fiori, which have gone unchallenged in the marketplace. You will learn about our Fiori testing and...
Why is the SAP Fiori Cloud So Slow?
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The Fiori Cloud has received a strange introduction by SAP. When testing the Fiori Cloud,...
What is the Value and Future of SAP Embedded Analytics?
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Introduction of Embedded Analytics
In this article, we will cover the real impact of embedded analytics is.
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How to Understand Why There are So Many SAP Fiori Books?
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SAP Press has published 16 books at the time of this article's publication on the topic of S/4HANA. However, there is an interesting backstory to these books and how SAP Press operates....
Oracle General
How Oracle Weaponizes the US Legal System
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In the article How Accurate Are Oracle's Criticisms of Rimini Street?, I described how Oracle was using the US courts to try to invalidate a legitimate business...
Will Thomas Kurian Bring Oracle’s Sales Sleaze to Google Cloud?
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The Wall Street Journal wrote an article (What’s Been Lacking at Google’s Cloud? Enough Humans), where the WSJ delves into Thomas Kurian’s plans as the recently named head of...
How Appealing is the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem?
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Oracle came up with the idea to increase cloud sales by marketing to startups. This story illustrates both the disorganization within Oracle and a misunderstanding on the part of Oracle regarding Oracle Cloud's capabilities.
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How to Treat Oracle Sales Reps as Passive Order Takers
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Oracle sales reps are set up as the go-to source for information about Oracle products, pricing, terms, and conditions. In this article, we will explain why frequent interactions with Oracle...
Teaching Oracle About Hypocrisy on Lock In
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Oracle's article titled Amazon and SAP Will Never Get Off the Oracle Database, and Why That's Good News for Them, Matthew O'Keefe proposes that essentially these companies are locked into Oracle.
Companies Cannot...
How Vendors Get Customers To Buy Immature Applications
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IT buyers often fall into the lab rat trap. They adopt new technology too early and end up with a test lab for vendors and a training course for consultants.
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How to Understand The Central Role of Exadata to Oracle’s Cloud Strategy
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This article will cover the major modalities of computer hardware.
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How Accurate Was ASUG About Migrating to HANA?
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Rating ASUG’s Inability to Challenge SAP’s Predictions
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In this article, we will cover yet another inaccuracy presented by SAP and repeated by ASUG. This has to do with estimating the number of live customers for S/4HANA by a specific date.
The following is from the ASUG S/4HANA Adoption...
How Accurate Was ASUG on S/4HANA’s Integration as R&D Priority?
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In this article, we will review ASUG's article on the S/4HANA and SAP cloud integration.
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How to Best Understand ASUG on S/4HANA’s Cloud Relaunch
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In this article, we will review ASUG's article on the S/4HANA Cloud relaunch.
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How to Best Understand ASUG on S/4HANA at REV Group
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In the reviewed ASUG article, logic is given for moving from S/4HANA to ECC. One logic used to justify the move to S/4HANA is not only an ERP system but a platform. Another is that S/4HANA provides a...
How to Best Understand ASUG’s SAP S/4HANA Adoption Survey
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Introduction to ASUG’s S/4HANA Study
We are currently working on and plan to release the first study into the actual implementation case studies for S/4HANA....
False SAP Arguments
Why Jelena Perfiljeva Refuses to Debate Brightwork Research
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We perform fact checking, and we fact check SAP along with several other entities in the IT space. As this fact checking contradicts SAP's marketing, this causes cognitive dissonance on the part of many...
Fact Checking SAP Causes SAP Resources to Seek Safe Spaces
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Since we have been fact-checking SAP, we frequently receive comments from SAP resources that have nothing to do with the content but everything to do with the tone. Here is one such...
Why SAP Customers Followed SAP’s Advice on Coding
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In this article, we will review a mostly unpublished area in the history of SAP. And the fact that it is unpublished brings up interesting questions about who benefited from the present state of SAP...
How SAP Resources Make False Statements About Brightwork Research
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SAP resources often do not like our research conclusions. They will often try to defend the SAP marketing statements no matter how false. This article covers how one SAP resource named Paul Hardy entirely misstated what Brightwork’s statements...
Are SAP’s Layoffs Due to an Impressive Transformation?
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After we wrote our analysis of SAP's layoffs in the articles SAP's Layoffs and a Brightwork Warning on HANA, and What Is Different About the Q1 2019 SAP and Oracle Layoffs,...
Similarities Between Thomas Edison, Elizabeth Holmes and Hasso Plattner
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Companies tend to centralize their coverage around a person who the company puts forward without checking if the person put forward is the individual who is the primary innovator. In this article, we will...
Understanding Why TOM is Yet Another Made Up Term by SAP
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Recently I was told that S/4HANA lowered the TOM of the ERP system. Therefore it made sense to research this term that I had never heard of before. This article will cover the...
Hasso Plattner
How Accurate Was Hasso Plattner About SAP HANA Publications?
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This is the video of Hasso Plattner; we will be reviewing it for accuracy.
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How Accurate is the Hasso Plattner Institute’s Course Explanation?
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The In Memory course offered by the Hasso Plattner Institute was recommended to us to understand in-memory computing. This was recommended to us even though we wrote the article How to Understand Why In-Memory Computing is a Myth and have observed and...
How Accurate was ComputerWorldUK on SAP Cofounder Hasso Plattner Defending S/4HANA?
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On July 28, 2017, ComputerWorldUK wrote the article SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner defends S/4HANA cloud strategy, explains Leonardo, and says Mark Hurd isn’t a “software guy.” In this article, we evaluate the accuracy of the article.
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Did Hasso Plattner and His PhD Students Invent HANA?
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The story of HANA’s development looks more...
How Accurate Was Hasso Plattner on Customers Being Too Risk Adverse for SAP S/4 HANA?
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On November 30, 2015, Hasso Plattner published How to Understand the Business...
Managing SAP Investment
How to Remove ABAP from SAP Environments
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ABAP is not a fully functional development language. It is instead a report writing language with a large number of libraries. ABAP problems are covered in the article Why Did SAP Customers Follow SAP's Advice on...
How To Reduce Your SAP Investment
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Curious to review any research or opinion pieces Brightwork has available on SAP Certified development partners and how one could improve an existing ERP platform instead of getting rid of them.
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How to Understand The Declining Upgradability of SAP Products
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To Whom Does Your IT Department Owe Its Allegiance?
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The conclusion of our research in this area is that IT departments are insensitive to this exact thing. That IT departments, particularly those that buy a great deal of SAP and Oracle, have sold...
How To Best Understand SAP as Legacy for Software Companies
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How SAP is Now Strip Mining its Customers
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SAP Acquisitions
SAP and Qualtrics CEOs Making Repeatedly False Statements
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The inaccuracies come fast and furious in this video. Let us review each statement made for accuracy.
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Does SAP’s Experience Management Make People Happy?
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SAP's argument here is that SAP Experience Management immediately leads to companies making their customers very happy. There are several questions here.
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How Effective is SAP in its Acquisitions?
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SAP makes a large number of acquisitions of software vendors. SAP acquisitions follow a very familiar path. We call this the...
Does SAP’s Acquisition of Qualtrics Make Any Sense?
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Is survey software critical to SAP's future? With the acquisition of Qualrics, SAP says...
How Accurate Was SAP on the Sybase Acquisition?
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In 2010 SAP acquired Sybase. This is before HANA had been introduced. Within a year, SAP's promoted the idea that it had developed a massive innovation in in-memory and columnar database...
How Many SAP Software Products Does SAP Have?
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At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we place many hours per week researching SAP. However, it is a full-time job keeping up...
SAP and Oracle Versus AWS and GCP
How to Understand Thought Leadership Transition from SAP and Oracle to AWS and Google Cloud
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Video Introduction: How to Understand Thought Leadership Transition from SAP and Oracle to AWS and Google Cloud
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For a time, Oracle provided a distinctly differentiated product to the market in its Oracle database....
How to Respond to SAP’s Arguments Against AWS and GCP
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Video Introduction: How to Respond to SAP's Arguments Against AWS and GCP
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SAP consulting partners usually will only know how to repeat the arguments that come from SAP. SAP consulting partners intend to denigrate both...
How to Respond to Oracle’s Argument on Whether Oracle Can Complete with AWS and Google Cloud With Far Fewer Data Centers?
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Video Introduction: How to Respond to Oracle's Argument on Whether Oracle Can Complete with AWS and Google Cloud With Far Fewer Data Centers?
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How AWS and Google Cloud Speed the Implementation of SAP and Oracle
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Video Introduction: How AWS and Google Cloud Speed the Implementation of SAP and Oracle
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Both SAP and Oracle rely upon an ecosystem of consulting partners...
AWS and Google Cloud Versus SAP Cloud with HTTP 2.0
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SAP Cloud attempts to appear competitive, but under the covers, the SAP Cloud is far behind AWS and GCP. In this article, we will focus on HTTP 2.0.
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AWS and Google Cloud Versus SAP Cloud and Oracle Cloud Containers
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Video Introduction: AWS and Google Cloud Versus SAP Cloud and Oracle Cloud Containers
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SAP has been trying to jump on the cloud bandwagon...
How to Understand SAP and Oracle Versus AWS and Google Cloud Pricing
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AWS and Google Cloud offer good pricing transparency and the ability even to...
SAP and Wall Street
The Reasons Given for McDermott’s Departure from SAP
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On October 10, Bill McDermott announced he was stepping down as CEO of SAP. The announcement caught virtually everyone that follows SAP by surprise, and the explanations for his sudden departure naturally caused suspicion...
Why Analysts Do Not Ask Challenging Questions on SAP’s Quarterly Calls
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Video Introduction: Why Analysts Do Not Ask Challenging Questions on SAP's Quarterly Calls
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For years, we have read the quarterly SAP calls with a furrowed brow at the Wall...
What Is Different About the Q1 2019 SAP and Oracle Layoffs?
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The recent Oracle layoffs and SAP layoffs had specific important characteristics. Oracle’s board approved the restructuring plan for fiscal 2019 of up to $432 million. The...
What Were the Inaccuracies in SAP’s Q2 2017 Earnings Call
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On July 20th, 2017, SAP held its Q2 call with analysts. This article is an analysis of some of the information provided by SAP in this call. Much of the...
How SAP Mislead Analysts on Q1 2017 Earnings Call
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On April 24, 2017, SAP held its Q1 call with analysts. This article is an analysis of some of the information provided by SAP in this call. Much of the information in the call...
SAP BW
The Amazing Disappearing BI Reports and BW as a Roach Motel
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For those who don't know much about the SAP Business Intelligence product (as opposed to simply the term "business intelligence," which could refer to any "computer-based technique for identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data" - Wikipedia), BI seems to be a solid solution for report...
Why SAP BI Was Misnamed and the SAP Interpretation of Business Intelligence is Incorrect
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Video Introduction: Why SAP BI Was Misnamed and the SAP Interpretation of Business Intelligence is Incorrect
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SAP BI originally started life as...
The Problem with Characteristics and CVCs in SAP DP and SAP BW
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Introduction to Characteristics
Characteristics are critical to both DP and BW. You will learn how characteristics work and how they are managed within these applications.
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Understanding DP and BW InfoCube Dimensions and Fact Table
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Introduction to the Star Schema
The star schema is critical to most analytics applications. You will learn how the star schema works and how it is set up in SAP DP and BW.
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How to Build Up to a DP InfoCube
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The DP workbench (RSA1) contains many data holding and data management elements. This post identifies and discusses them (since "characteristics" are used so often in this post and is a lengthy word, sometimes we have shortened it here to "charac").
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How to Understand the Demand Planning Administrator Workbench
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Interacting with the Workbench
There are two major parts to DP. One is the forecasting portion, and the other is the data workbench. The forecasting methods are applied to the data workbench. DP's Workbench is a copy of the BW Workbench, a problem because the data backend within DP is the worst that I have worked with. Without...
SAP Cloud
A Quick Summary of: A Brightwork Warning on SAP’s Cloud Extension Program
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This is a summary of the article A Brightwork Warning on SAP's Cloud Extension Program. This provides the highlights of the article, but not the details to read the details. See the...
How Competitive an Option is SAP Analytics Cloud?
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SAP developed a program to migrate Business Objects customers to their uncompetitive SAP...
A Brightwork Warning on SAP’s Cloud Extension Program
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Video Introduction: A Brightwork Warning on SAP's Cloud Extension Program
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SAP has introduced a program for migrating SAP customers to the cloud...but migrating them only on paper. While...
Is SAP Really a Cloud Provider or Just a Cloud Buyer?
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This article focuses on SAP, but the lessons cloud just as well be applied to Oracle.
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This article began as a response to the following quotation from Vinnie Mirchandani.
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How to Understand SAP’s Cloud Upcharge on AWS Storage
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SAP's strategy of charging AWS, GCP, Azure, and private cloud providers like HPE give customers an excellent reason never to use the SAP Cloud (which we refer to as SAP Cloud UaaS or Upcharge as a Service).
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How SAP Has Been Secretly Outsourcing Hosting
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SAP has been posing as a cloud...
How to Best Understand SAP’s Multicloud Announcement
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Video Introduction: How to Best Understand SAP's Multicloud Announcement
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This article covers the announcement made at SAPPHIRE regarding SAP, offering what...
SAP Ecosystem
How SAP Sponsored Studies Are Repeated in the SAP Ecosystem
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This article illustrates how inaccurate information is replicated from its source: an SAP-funded study into the general SAP ecosystem.
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SAP Nation 2.0 on the Overall SAP Ecosystem Annual Spend
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In our TCO calculators, which are available for free online, SAP routinely ranks as the highest TCO software. SAP also has the largest consulting partner network with roughly 12,500 consulting...
How ASUG Lost its Way and Sold Out to SAP
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Video Introduction: How ASUG Lost its Way and Sold Out to SAP
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ASUG began its life as a user group, which meant...
SAP ERP
How to Understand SAP’s Comments on the Issue with GR Processing Time
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Introduction to the Issue of GR Processing Time
There is an issue with how SAP does not respect the GR Processing Time. In this article, you will read about our analysis of SAP's recommendation on this...
How to Add STO Order Data to the SNP Transportation Report
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Adding the STO Order Date to the SNP Transportation Report
This document is designed to explain a request to add a field to the List of Outbound...
The Manufacturing Process Order Flow Between APO and SAP ERP
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I was recently asked the following question:
“When does APO no longer recognize a process order as an inbound receipt of inventory?”
This is essentially a question of when inventory is recognized within a production location.
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How to Understand KANBAN’s Connection to Supply Planning and KANBAN in SAP ERP
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In this article, we will dive into and explain one of the more particular areas of functionality in SAP ERP, called KANBAN.
What Triggers Stock Movements?
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Understanding the GR Processing Time Planning Book Discrepancy
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This document is designed to explain how the planning book displays the GR processing time and how to work around it. This issue arose when Dawn Richmond pointed out that there was no discrepancy in the Planning Book Between the End Date and the Avail/Req Date. This seemed strange as this product did, in fact, have a...
Was the SAP MRP Type Field Named Correctly?
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The MRP.Type is a field on the Material Master in ERP which does two things:
Understanding the Field Drop Down for All Valid Values in SAP SE16N
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Being a functional consultant, I have always tended to go through GUI transactions to get data in addition to SPRO. I have always been impressed with those who could navigate the SAP tables and understand their relationships with one another. I have begun to use other applications by having Excel mapped to the tables, and I find it a much more logical and...
SAP Implementation Tips
A List of SAP Implementation Failures
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Video Introduction: A List of SAP Implementation Failures
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This article looks at the top Google results that reported SAP implementation failures. What is curious is that few SAP implementation...
Are SAP System Integrators Simply Body Shops?
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System integrators, also known as IT consulting firms, spend a great deal of money on marketing...
Why It Is Important to Pull Forward S/4HANA Code Remediation
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Video Introduction: Why It Is Important to Pull Forward S/4HANA Code Remediation
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Implementating SAP S/4HANA means radical changes in the code that companies...
How to Understand SAP’s Advice on S4HANA Code Remediation
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Video Introduction: How to Understand SAP's Advice on S4HANA Code Remediation
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SAP has published its perspective on remediating code for S/4HANA....
Does Hiring Large SAP Consulting Firms Work as Political Insurance?
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Video Introduction: Does Hiring Large SAP Consulting Firms Work as Political Insurance?
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Giant SAP consulting companies have a long history of charging...
Introducing Brightwork’s Deloitte Coupon for Terrible SAP Advice
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At Brightwork, we provide analysis for companies evaluating SAP and Oracle. And in this role, we are exposed to the documentation and information provided to...
Who Wants Honest SAP Advisement and Software Selection Business?
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Video Introduction: Who Wants Honest SAP Advisement and Software Selection Business?
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Many consulting companies provide advice and perform anything from software selection assistance...
SAP Integration
Why SAP, Dell Boomi Nor MuleSoft Can Do What the SAP Integration Ninja Does
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This begins by explaining some of the basics around integrating to SAP. Much of the content is from Denis Myagkov.
We have to acknowledge that all integration solutions on the market use one of three...
How the SAP Integration Ninja Uses 100% No ABAP
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ABAP is a liability at all SAP customers.
This is why we have designed the SAP Integration Ninja to use zero ABAP.
The Reality of Integration Vendors
We don’t use any ABAP code on the SAP side for the SAP Integration Ninja. This...
How SAP Vendors Can Benefit from the SAP Integration Ninja
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In this article, we will cover the unique benefits of the SAP Integration Ninja for software vendors.
The Reality of Integration Vendors
Most of the vendors involved in SAP integration do not offer integration as a service....
Ease SAP Integration With The Brightwork SAP Integration Ninja
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How to Understand the SAP Integration Ninja
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How Non Programming Integration Solutions Undermine SAP Projects
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Shaun Snapp and Denis Myagkov co-authored this article.
Video Introduction: How Non Programming Integration Solutions Undermine SAP Projects
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SAP’s current integration products use non-programming approaches that are outdated. For organizations, this translates to poor...
The Long Term Problems with SAP and Integration
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Video Introduction: The Long Term Problems with SAP and Integration
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In its history, SAP has not been successful in creating integration applications. SAP integration is generally difficult. SAP PO is not well regarded. SAP...
SAP Marketing and Sales
The Sales Reason for the High Failure Rate of SAP Projects
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Video Introduction: The Sales Reason for the High Failure Rate of SAP Projects
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In the article How SAP is Now Strip Mining its Customers, we covered how SAP has many failures. One...
Is It True That SAP Performs Tests Before Selling Software?
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Video Introduction: Is It True That SAP Performs Tests Before Selling Software?
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SAP has a long history of forcing ill-fitting applications into their customers. This is enabled by...
Should Oracle Create the Larry Ellison Institute to Counter the Hasso Plattner Institute?
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Video Introduction: Should Oracle Create the Larry Ellison Institute to Counter the Hasso Plattner Institute?
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Hasso Plattner created the Hasso Plattner Institute years ago at the University...
SAPPHIRE 2019: Why Do SAP and North Korea Look Like They Use the Same Set Designer?
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In reviewing Bill McDermott's speech at SAPPHIRE 2019, we noticed something curious about the set design.
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Our 2019 Observation: SAP Leonardo is Now Dead
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Video Introduction: Our 2019 Observation: SAP Leonardo is Now Dead
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SAP Leonardo was introduced with great fanfare and quickly metastasized its footprint from being strickly for IoT into being for AI...
Its Official, If You Work for SAP Its Ok to Lie About Having a PhD
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In our article, Does Hasso Plattner Have a Ph.D.?, we outlined the fact that Hasso's PhDs are honorary but are presented as real.
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Why You Should Treat SAP Sales Reps As Passive Order Takers
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Video Introduction: Why You Should Treat SAP Sales Reps As Passive Order Takers
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SAP sales reps are set up as the go-to source of...
SAP Partnership
Angela Merkel Loves Herself Some Hasso Plattner Institute
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Video Introduction: Angela Merkel Loves Herself Some Hasso Plattner Institute
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It is always interesting to find something that the participants thought was a good thing, but it...
How Accurate Was SAP on their Google Alliance?
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Video Introduction: How Accurate Was SAP on their Google Alliance?
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How to Interpret SAP and Microsoft’s 2017 Cloud Partnership Announcement
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Video Introduction: How to Interpret SAP and Microsoft's 2017 Cloud Partnership Announcement
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Recently we were asked about SAP and Microsoft's cloud partnership announcement of November 27, 2017. In this...
How to Best Understand the Pitfalls of Partnerships with SAP
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Video Introduction: SAP Partnership Program
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SAP has the most extensive vendor partnership program of any software vendor in the...
Whatever Happened to the SAP and Apple Partnership?
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Video Introduction: Whatever Happened to the SAP and Apple Partnership?
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On May 05, 2016, Fortune published the article Apple and SAP Team Up for Blockbuster Partnership. You will see our review of the accuracy of this...
SAP Position Analysis
Brightwork Advisory Note: A Change in SAP Development Strategy
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Video Introduction: Brightwork Advisory Note: A Change in SAP Development Strategy
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SAP’s board has recently come to...
SAP HANA 大裁员:它怎么了
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This article was originally written in English and became very popular in China. It was translated at a website in China and before we had a chance to complain about the unauthorized copy, it was then removed for...
According to SAP, Indirect Access is All About Customers!
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Video Introduction: According to SAP, Indirect Access is All About Customers!
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SAP published an article that proposed a curious narrative for how SAP views...
SAP’s Recycled Indirect Access Damage Control for 2018
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Video Introduction: SAP's Recycled Indirect Access Damage Control for 2018
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SAP has just released new information regarding indirect access, which is best described as damage...
Brightwork Analysis of SAP’s 2017 White Paper on Indirect Access
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Video Introduction: Brightwork Analysis of SAP's 2017 White Paper on Indirect Access
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Are SAP Customers Actually Under Licensed After Indirect Access?
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Video Introduction: Are SAP Customers Actually Under Licensed After Indirect Access?
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SAP has written a great deal about customers that are "under licensed" concerning indirect...
SAP Product Evaluation
How Real is SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise?
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Video Introduction: How Real is SAP's Intelligent Enterprise?
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The term intelligent enterprise is an outgrowth of the current obsession and hype around the term artificial intelligence....
How to Understand SAP’s Strange Predictive Analytics for ML
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Video Introduction: How to Understand SAP's Strange Predictive Analytics for ML
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Before HANA and machine learning, SAP used to market something called predictive analytics. This was out-of-the-box forecasting that SAP...
How Accurate Was Bluefin Solutions on C/4HANA?
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Video Introduction: How Accurate Was Bluefin Solutions on C/4HANA?
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Bluefin Solutions has been the source of an enormous amount of inaccurate information around...
Why Doesn’t the SAP Cloud Platform Have Any Reviews on G2Crowd?
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Video Introduction: Why Doesn't the SAP Cloud Platform Have Any Reviews on G2Crowd?
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SAP has very heavily pushed the SAP Cloud...
Why SAP Leonardo Seems So Fake
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Video Introduction: The Real Story of Leonardo
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SAP has created tremendous hype around Leonardo. An unbiased analysis is necessary of...
SAP and Oracle Support
The Inventory Production Demand Report Booster
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The Inventory Production Demand Report uses PPDS to evaluate days supply outside of interactive planning.
The Supply Chain Model Graphical Display (SDP94) Booster
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Supply Planners often need to check a host of transactions to verify the supply chain model of a product at a Location, usually...
The SAP APO Master Data Mass Maintenance Booster
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The MASSD interface is fundamentally limited in the sense that one can only change a set of...
The APO Analytical Demand Planning with Navigational Attributes Booster
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Creative use of Navigational Attributes can help demand planners get more insights into the nature...
The APO ATP Booster Alternative to the GATP Rules Based ATP Check
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The following is a brief list of the common problems with the GATP Rules Based ATP check.
The Booster for Central Maintenance of Authorizations and Roles in SAP APO
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Maintaining Authorization Activities and Roles is a high maintenance activity. The Authorization Objects and values have no documentation from SAP. Making Authorization Maintenance guesswork, wasting valuable consulting time. Roles in APO continue to be grossly...
The Planning Master Data Evaluation Booster
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Master data issues hold back nearly all APO projects that have experience working with or to which we have had exposure. In this article, we will cover the common master data issues with APO, as...
SAP Deception
Extracting Meaning from Diginomica’s Interview with SAP CEO Christian Klein
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Diginomica recently published an article where Denis Howlett interviewed SAP ECO Christian Klein. The interview was quite interesting, but only if one reads between the lines.
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Are Brightwork’s Statements Too General Versus SAP?
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We sometimes have surreal interactions on LinkedIn, where various pro-vendor individuals make unsupported claims.
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Is There a Requirement for Both Positive and Negative Coverage in Research?
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We sometimes have surreal interactions on LinkedIn, where various pro-vendor individuals make unsupported claims.
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How to Understand The SAP Acquisition Playbook
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Should Brightwork Research and Analysis Sell Out to SAP?
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Our last article on HANA titled SAP's Layoffs, and a Brightwork Warning on HANA created quite a tizzy in the SAP community....
How SAP Won a Fake IoT Award
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It was recently called out that SAP won an award for IoT. In this article, we analyze the validity of this award.
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How to Understand if Jabir’s SAP IoT is Really IoT?
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SAP has been very aggressively pushing Leonardo. We have previously questioned whether SAP really has much IoT business in the article Why Leonardo Seems to Fake. Recently we found this supposed success story of IoT for the...
SAP Underhanded Tactics
Examples of SAP Intimidation of Individuals
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In the article, SAP is Accused of Witness Tampering in Teradata Lawsuit. We analyzed abuse that a witness accused against SAP. This tends to be something that most people do not associate with SAP. However, it...
Why Dictatorial Systems Require The Ability to Censor and Punish Dissent
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In the article What We Can Learn About Trump's Inept Advice on Drinking Lysol for Treating the Coronavirus, I observed that incompetence is a common occurrence among those at the top of hierarchies. I also observed that the concentration of...
The Brightwork SAP Bribery Tracker Per Country
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At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we have long held that SAP is a highly corrupt company, and its rise had much more to do with its ability to corrupt other entities in IT than anything to...
How Deloitte, McKinsey, the Guptas and SAP Ripped Off Eskom
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Eskom's decline began around the change in government to the ANC. Eskom has been living off its infrastructure from a bygone era and...
How SAP Will Gaslight You When Their Software Does Not Work as Promised
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SAP resources sometimes get quite incensed by the research we do here at Brightwork. We analyze the quotes from one such SAP resource.
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The Importance of Knowing Your Place in the SAP Hierarchy
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The unrelenting hierarchy of hierarchy is exceptionally well explored in the following quotation in a recently rediscovered book.
"Social ladders exist precisely to keep you where you are. Thanks to them, everyone knows his...
Understanding SAP and Harvey Weinstein and the Abuse of Power
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This article will review...
Brightwork Studies
The Hidden S/4HANA Failure at LeasePlan
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LeasePlan's leadership decided to create a cover story for their € 100 million write-offs related to S/4HANA and other (unstated and indeterminate SAP products purchased as part of their 2017 purchase from SAP).
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The Hidden S/4HANA Failure at Nanshan Life Insurance
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IT industry's standard excuse for failed ERP projects always has been something akin to the following:
The software is not the problem.
The mistake is not hiring qualified implementation consultants to lead the...
The Hidden S/4HANA S Oliver and KPS Failure
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We have been warning people about S/4HANA's implementation problems for several years now. Did we cover this in the article Why Did SAP Fake S/4HANA Maturity So Aggressively? Explain how both SAP and consulting firms have...
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The Hidden S/4HANA Home24 and KPS Failure
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We have been warning people about S/4HANA's implementation problems for several years now. We covered this in the article Why Did SAP Fake S/4HANA Maturity So Aggressively? and explaining how both SAP and consulting firms have significantly...
A HANA Versus DB2 Case Study
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We have been publishing individual case studies for HANA. In each case study, there is information in dramatic opposition to what is generally published on HANA.
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What Will Happen to HANA Projects That Are In Process?
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In the article SAP's Layoffs and a Brightwork Warning on HANA, we covered what SAP's layoffs meant for HANA. And it is not positive. However, it brings up an interesting question about...
KPS Continues to Keep Promote HANA for Retail for Lidl After Failure
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Introduction to Continual Lying at KPS
We have frequently covered how inaccurate the information is on SAP consulting company websites. And this is a perfect...