Innovabee S/4HANA Case Study

ByShaun Snapp

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Executive Summary

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

Introduction

Innovabee is an IT services provider based in Germany. As with WiPro and Convergent IS, they list S/4HANA as one of their consulting offerings, and they have a S/4HANA blog on their website. One of the blog posts is titled “Forrester Study Shows: the Database SAP HANA is Top!”

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  • 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. 

Innovabee claims the following.

“The Forrester Wave” of August 2015, databases of various providers were analyzed and analyzed for their dissemination and their performance. The result: in both categories, SAP HANA is ahead of all its competitors.”

Therefore, it would be difficult for the position to be held that Innovabee only implemented S/4HANA for its inherent usable capabilities. With the implementation, Innovabee now has its case study. As it is the source, one can be sure that the case study’s resulting information will be positive. The more positive the information that Innovabee provides, the more S/4HANA implementations that Innovabee can sell. This naturally introduces considerable bias into any information that Innovabee would release. For instance, it would be unlikely that Innovabee would state that they failed or ran into their implementation issues when they are offering S/4HANA implementation service.

Even if it were true, would they admit to such a thing? Even if they wanted to, how would this impact their relationship with SAP?

As with several of the other S/4HANA consulting company case studies, Innovabee is also a small consulting company and would not have been the typical ECC target. It is well known that ECC and S/4HANA have a certain amount of overhead that is not economical for smaller companies, as discussed in the Convergent IS case study.

Therefore, the most likely explanation is that Innovabee implemented S/4HANA to implement S/4HANA for other companies.

Innovabee went live in 6 weeks. This is yet another in the list of unheard implementation timelines of even the FI/CO module in ECC. This brings up questions of what was implemented if it was just a demo system. However, the case study does not provide enough details to know what Innovabee did with S/4HANA.

This implementation went live in June of 2015.

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Conclusion

This is an unreliable case study implemented by yet another IT consulting company specializing in SAP.

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