How Accurate Was SAP on Running S/4HANA on a Smartwatch?

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Executive Summary

For years SAP has said that S/4HANA ran on a smartwatch.
In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim.

What SAP Said About Running S/4HANA on a Smartwatch

In early 2015, Bernd Leukert told ComputerWorldUK (in what appeared to be a paid placement) that S/4HANA would run on smartwatches. Brightwork Research & Analysis analyzed this contention in the article Will Fiori Actually Run on Smartwatch?

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Running S/4HANA on a Smartwatch?

There are several peculiar things about this statement.

First, a smartwatch is too small of a screen to do much of anything in an ERP system other than receiving a notification, which in that case, accessing an ERP system is unnecessary.
Secondly, Fiori has had an insufficient uptake even with customers that use full sizes computers, much less using a smartwatch.
The overall statement is confusing. S/4HANA is not being “run” on the smartwatch. That is the database, and the application server would not be installed on the smartwatch. The best that one could hope for would be for the UI to be accessed through a browser on the smartwatch. So using the term “run on” the smartwatch is either completely false or seemingly deliberately misleading.

Overall, the proposal for accessing the S/4HANA ERP system is quite ludicrous. Sometimes SAP makes it a little too easy.

Conclusion and Calculation

SAP receives a 0% accuracy rating on running S/4HANA on a smartwatch.

Link to the Parent Article

This is one of many research articles on a specific topic that support 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.