How to Remove ABAP from SAP Environments

Executive Summary ABAP is a highly inefficient development language that should be removed from SAP accounts. This article will explain how to do this. Introduction 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…

How To Reduce Your SAP Investment

Executive Summary Sometimes we receive the question of how to reduce the investment into SAP. This article explains how to do this. Introduction We recently received the following question. 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…

How to Understand The Declining Upgradability of SAP Products

 Executive Summary The upgradeability of SAP products is declining, and this fact is being hidden from SAP customers by both SAP and SAP consulting companies. We will answer why this is happening. Introduction In this article, we will provide a non-SAP biased perspective on these changes. This information is distinct from anything provided by the…

To Whom Does Your IT Department Owe Its Allegiance?

Executive Summary SAP investments tend to have negative ROI in companies where they over-invest in SAP. We cover the issue of mixed allegiances of IT departments. Introduction 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…

How To Best Understand SAP as Legacy for Software Companies

Executive Summary It is increasingly evident that SAP has a very high maintenance overhead and that the new products from SAP are worse than SAP’s ERP system. The new concept for getting value from SAP is to use non-SAP applications with non-SAP infrastructures like AWS and Google Cloud. Introduction to SAP as Legacy In a…

How SAP is Now Strip Mining its Customers

Executive Summary There are facts of the Diageo vs. SAP case that bring up important questions regarding SAP’s logic and what a poor job Diageo did in this case. To understand indirect access as enforced by SAP, it is necessary to connect the topic to CRM and SAP’s concern with Salesforce. Introduction In this article, I…