Executive Summary SAP and its consulting partners provide inaccurate information to clients. We validate this information for accuracy. Introduction This article discusses a service we provide that helps improve process success with S/4HANA. What We Do on SAP and SAP Consulting Firm Provided S/4HANA Information Verification We analyze the information provided to software buyers by…
Executive Summary Find out about the issues with HANA and S/4HANA pricing before you negotiate with SAP. Introduction This article discusses an important strategy used by some software vendors to enforce pricing secrecy. Hiding Pricing Information with NDAs The problem with hiding pricing information is that software vendors use it as a control technique to…
Executive Summary A major part of SAP HANA pricing is database sizing. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references for this article and other related Brightwork articles, see this link. The first thing to know before understanding HANA’s technical details or its pricing is that the information provided by SAP…
Executive Summary SAP has proposed that all of its applications that use HANA work better on HANA than other databases. Find out if this claim is true. All SAP Applications Work Better with HANA? SAP’s marketing positioning is that these databases work much better with HANA than with any other database. So it is a…
Executive Summary SAP introduced HANA in order to use its application business to displace Oracle from the database business on SAP accounts. This is exactly as Oracle works to push into the application layer. Introduction In this article, we will explain how HANA is part of a strategy to replace Oracle that has nothing to…
Executive Summary SAP consulting firms are aggressively trying to sell S/4HANA assessments to advise their clients on moving to S/4HANA. We cover the issues with these assessments. Video Introduction: Don’t Get Tricked by SAP Consulting Firm S/4HANA Assessment Projects Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Brightwork Research & Analysis has tracked for…
Executive Summary itelligence has a large amount of false information on its website around their S/4HANA experienced. We cover itelligence’s blatant deception in this article. Video Introduction: How to Interpret itelligence’s Massive Lies on S/4HANA Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) The lies in SAP consulting firm websites never cease to amaze…
Executive Summary NTT Data wrote an article designed to sell NTT Data consulting services that give out information on S/4HANA. How accurate was this article? Video Introduction: Should You Listen to NTT Data on S/4HANA? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) The falsehoods published on the websites of SAP consulting firms never cease…
Executive Summary It was proposed that on our HANA analysis, we had an ax to grind. How accurately did our projections end up being, and how sharp was this ax? Introduction We received the claim that we had an ax to grind with SAP in the article SAP Layoffs and a Warning on HANA? This…
Executive Summary SAP recently had major layoffs in its HANA group. The question is if it is inhumane to describe the problems with HANA that lead to the layoffs. Introduction This article responds to a question we received about our comments related to critiquing HANA on LinkedIn shares for a leading HANA resource at SAP….