Answerthink Anonymous S/4HANA Client Case Study

ByShaun Snapp

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Executive Summary

  • This is the Answerthink S/4HANA, which is part of our research study.
  • We evaluate the accuracy of this case study.

Introduction

The Answerthink case study is one of the only case studies we have ever come across published by the consulting company where the client is anonymous.

Our References for This Article

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Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this article.

  • This is published by a research entity, not some lowbrow entity that is part of the SAP ecosystem. 
  • 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. 

See the following quotation.

“today announced the successful go-live implementation of the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution at a pre-commercial, pre-production medical device company.”

This is a strange announcement because one cannot go “live” on a system unless your company is live. That should seem a bit obvious, but apparently, Answerthink wanted an S/4HANA reference.

Answerthink stated that they went live in 13 weeks, and they were on time and budget.

There is nothing to analyze in this case study. There is no real detail, and Answerthink has changed the definition of what live is, taking software live with the customer not being an active company at the go-live time.

This S/4HANA implementation was said to have gone live on April 28, 2016.

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Conclusion

Answerthink produced a bizarre case study for S/4HANA. They appear to have stretched the definition of “going live.”

This article is part of The S/4HANA Implementation Study. Please see that study for the overall conclusions.