Executive Summary SAP resources tend to live in a bubble where they only consume biased content. This makes it very difficult for them to tolerate fact checking. Introduction 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…
Executive Summary SAP resources live in a bubble where virtually all media coverage towards SAP is positive. This causes them to be triggered by the fact checking of SAP. Introduction 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…
Executive Summary SAP provided biased and self-serving advice when it recommended that customers use its inefficient coding language. We evaluate why SAP customers accepted this advice. Introduction In this article, we will review a mostly unpublished area in the history of SAP. And the fact that it is unpublished brings up interesting questions about who…
Executive Summary SAP resources sometimes make false statements about what our research conclusions are. In this article, we cover one example of this. Introduction 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…
Executive Summary SAP has come up with a logic for key layoffs in areas where their products are failing. We analyze the evidence for SAP’s logic. Introduction 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…
Executive Summary After analyzing SAP more than any other research entity, we have come to some important conclusions regarding Hasso Plattner that are not generally known. Introduction 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…
Executive Summary TOM is a made up a term by SAP designed to confuse customers and make up a new term for what is nothing more than “infrastructure.” Introduction 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…
Executive Summary SAP shows a pattern of mystifying topics. Mystifying topics is the exact opposite of explaining topics to an audience. This is deliberate and fits into how SAP markets to customers. Introduction At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we have repeatedly shown that SAP provides false information to customers as part of standard practice. Readers…
Executive Summary SAP consultants like to talk about a “Golden Age” of SAP, where SAP added a great deal of value to customers. We show how this is a myth and how this myth is used. Introduction In this article, we will cover a common assumption promoted by SAP proponents. This is the proposal that…
Executive Summary Those who are incapable of debating the Brightwork Research & Analysis arguments often use the hominem of an “ax to grind” against Brightwork and Shaun Snapp. The proponents of the hypothesis of the ax to grind fail to provide evidence of the ax. Introduction to the Ax to Grind Hypothesis This article addresses…