How Accurate Was SAP About its HANA Based Health Application?

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Executive Summary

For years SAP has said that that they were introducing health applications based upon HANA.
In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim.

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In 2012 both Vishal Sikka and Hasso Plattner stated that SAP was developing a new medical research product that would leverage HANA. We covered this in the article How Accurate Was Vishal Sikka on the Future of HANA? In the Diginomica article, Vishal Sikka made a series of outlandish statements, ranging from how SAP was placing genetic algorithms into HANA to help diagnose cancer to stating that a new medical product was about to be introduced. You will learn how accurate SAP’s claims were regarding its future health applications.

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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.

What is the Truth About SAP Medical Research Insights?

Over five years later, the “product” that SAP eventually introduced is called SAP Medical Research Insights. It has almost no searches for it in search engines and does not appear anything like Vishal Sikka described in 2012. It is a mostly generic analytics solution for medical research that we cover in detail in the article above.

Secondly, there is no reference to any genetic algorithms being placed in HANA except in one article in 2014 by itelligence, an SAP consulting company. SAP was either never doing anything with genetic algorithms in the first place in HANA for health diagnosis, and whatever Vishal Sikka was speaking of evaporated.

Conclusion and Calculation

SAP receives a 10% accuracy rating on its statements regarding its SAP Medical Research Insights.

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.